Lebanese born and Paris based architect Lina Ghotmeh is rightly gaining a reputation for beautiful and considered architecture deeply rooted in the history, context and stories of place.

Hortus Collective is changing UK landscape design through nature, reuse of materials and close work with architects. In this interview, the studio talks about biodiversity, making places people feel good in and creating gardens that grow and change over time.

In a Birmingham house, Civic Square opens up the hidden layers of the housing crisis. Retrofit House uses natural materials and collective learning to link housing, health and climate, and to show how neighbourhoods might repair themselves.

In Portugal, a proverb says whoever cares about their grandchildren plants a cork oak. Harvested without felling, regrown on long cycles, cork offers a rare building material that renews itself - a slow, living alternative to extractive forestry and fast, fragile afforestation.