An open-air platform for meditation is elevated above the treetops at Zenbo Seinei, a wooden retreat that Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed on Awaji Island in Japan. More about Shigeru Ban creates wooden Zenbo Seinei retreat on Japanese island
Ascent, an 86.6-metre-tall mass-timber tower in Wisconsin designed by Korb + Associates Architects, has been certified as the world's tallest timber building. More about Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee becomes world's tallest timber building
UK practice Invisible Studio has collaborated with local community groups to design and build a shelter from timber sourced within the Westonbirt arboretum in Gloucestershire, England. More about Invisible Studio unveils timber shelter "made with many hands" at Westonbirt arboretum
Swiss practice Leopold Banchini Architects has completed a wooden shack in New South Wales, Australia, that overlooks a remote creek through a fully-glazed facade. More about Leopold Banchini Architects perches wooden shack above an Australian creek
Slovenian architecture studio A202 Arhitekti has added a timber-lined extension and mezzanine bedroom to a derelict house in the town of Domžale, Slovenia. More about A202 Arhitekti adds pitched-roof wooden extension to renovated brick house in Slovenia
Estudio MMX used a strategy of "stylistic hybridization" to conform to local building guidelines for a four-gabled holiday home with a central skylight in Mexico. More about Estudio MMX tops gabled Mexican holiday home with dramatic skylight
Wooden slats wrap around indoor and outdoor gathering spaces for an angular pavilion in Winnipeg's Crescent Drive Park that can be "submerged without decay" during floods. More about Public City Architecture creates Winnipeg pavilion to withstand flood conditions
Sustainably-sourced timber has been used for the structure, cladding and interior of this mews home in Highgate, London, designed by local architect Russell Jones. More about Timber structure and finishes define London home by Russell Jones
Swiss designer Fabien Roy has created a temporary circular installation made from spruce wood in the middle of the Swiss countryside for the cycling race Tour de France. More about Fabien Roy creates clock-shaped wooden installation to mark Tour de France
Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has completed a wooden cabin on a remote island in the Chiloé archipelago, taking cues from traditional architecture found in the area. More about Remote cabin in Chile by Guillermo Acuña is modelled on traditional fishing huts
Juan Pablo Ureta has completed an beach house on Chile's northern coast, organising most of the living areas around an internal courtyard. More about Juan Pablo Ureta orients wooden Chilean beach house around a courtyard
Syrian architects Marwa Al-Sabouni and Ghassan Jansiz have created a pop-up, crescent-shaped colonnade on the seafront in Hove, England, assembled from CNC-cut plywood. More about Pop-up plywood colonnade in Hove references Islamic architecture
The latest edition of Dezeen Debate features a pyramidal timber playhouse in a London garden. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now! More about Dezeen Debate newsletter features a "treeless treehouse"
London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has completed a timber-framed dining hall at the University of Cambridge's Homerton College with a faience-tiled volume set above a pigmented-concrete colonnade. More about Feilden Fowles completes timber-framed dining hall at University of Cambridge
Architecture studio De Matos Ryan has created a "treeless treehouse" named Penfold in the garden of a London home, with a pyramidal timber structure that is accessible only by crawling beneath it. More about De Matos Ryan adds timber playspace to garden of London home
A mix of textured timber cladding animates walls throughout the Creative Centre teaching space, which London studio Tate+Co has created for York St John University in England. More about Tate+Co uses "supertexture" to enliven teaching space at York St John University
Whitten Architects clad this Maine retreat with Eastern cedar and placed it on stilts on a steep site so that the single-storey structure would seem like a treehouse. More about Whitten Architects places single-storey Maine home on stilts to "evoke a treehouse"
Architecture offices Miller Hull Partnership and Woods Bagot have revealed plans for an extension of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. More about Miller Hull Partnership and Woods Bagot design timber Sea-Tac airport expansion
Wooden stilts raise this treehouse-like holiday cabin above a drovers' track in rural England, allowing sheep to be herded underneath while providing views through the treetops from the living areas. More about Akin Studio raises Drovers' Bough cabin on stilts at English farm
A central courtyard in this remote retreat by Chilean studio SAA brings natural light to the interiors while avoiding the need to cut any additional trees surrounding the structure. More about SAA completes Chilean cabin illuminated by central courtyard