But the Cork Screw House, a three-story residential commission in a Berlin suburb designed by rundzwei Architekten, is clad and roofed with one of the most renewable tree-derived materials: cork.

It's been a summer of pretty extreme contrasts, weather-wise with prolonged hot weather followed by Status Yellow rain events and now - a hosepipe ban for Cork, Tipp and Waterford. The ban on the use ...