Volcanic stone dust was used to build the walls of this Buddhist education and meditation centre, designed by Sameep Padora & Associates for a woodland clearing in rural India (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). More
Mexican design studio Peca has handcrafted a collection of shelves by carving blocks of lava stone (+ slideshow). More
Arizona studio DUST has created a desert home south of Tucson using volcanic residue to form rammed-concrete walls (+ slideshow). More
Panoramic windows puncture the grey brick walls of this guest house, designed by South Korean studio Z_Lab to optimise views of Jeju island's picturesque coastline (+ slideshow). More
Each of the pieces in this basalt tableware range by British designer Max Lamb has been cast from a hand-carved mould. More
New York 2016: Finnish designer Janne Kyttanen has continued to develop his explosion welding technique, melding volcanic stone and 3D-printed copper into two furniture pieces (+ slideshow). More
Materials and colours used throughout the interior of this Aesop store in Sapporo, Japan, were designed by architecture studio Case-Real to mimic the surrounding landscape of snow-topped mountains (+ slideshow). More
Korean studio Platform_a has completed a cafe with pivoting mirrored-glass doors and volcanic stone walls on Jeju, a volcanic island off the coast of mainland South Korea (+ slideshow). More
Design Miami 2015: 3D-printing pioneer Janne Kyttanen has used explosion welding to create a sculptural table that fuses metal and volcanic rock (+ slideshow). More
Volcanic ash is mixed into the concrete shell of this angular house in central Tokyo, which was designed by Atelier Tekuto for a pair of chemists (+ slideshow). More
This restaurant and bar in the Azores comprises two buildings – a remodelled barn with volcanic stone walls, and a bulbous timber extension conceived as a cross between a whale and a wine barrel (+ slideshow). More
Seoul studio Doojin Hwang Architects has completed a stone house with a bowed roof for a citrus farm on the South Korean island of Jeju (+ slideshow). More
Modelled on the head of a windswept woman, this copper observation pod is one of three holiday homes completed by South Korean architect Moon Hoon on a stone-walled plot on Jeju Island (+ slideshow). More
A team of architects, artists and scientists has built a pair of basalt structures on the shoreline of a South Korean island to help to draw up fresh water from a spring below the sea. More
Huge glass doors pivot from the walls of this stone-walled mountain home, which sits at the foot of Tepozteco mountain in Mexico (+ slideshow). More
Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has created a multi-sensory space for experiencing and buying fragrance by coating a room inside an old London building with volcanic ash (+ slideshow). More
Caterina Moretti and Ana Saldañan of Mexican design studio Peca have used dark grey volcanic stone to create this collection of plates. More
Japanese studio Nendo has turned woven bamboo baskets into backrests for chairs and storage compartments for tables in this furniture range (+ slideshow). More
Menos é Mais Arquitectos and João Mendes Ribeiro slotted both light and dark structures among the stone buildings of an old warehouse complex to create this arts centre – one of 40 projects now on the shortlist for the Mies van der Rohe Award. More
Budapest studio Gereben Marián mixed cement with local earth and rock to create the rugged walls of this series of buildings, which accommodate visitors to a vineyard in the Eger wine region of Hungary (+ slideshow). More