A multifunctional kitchen station with green touches galore.

Floating dining room sits on 1,700 plastic bottles.

Stripped-down "social bicycle system" takes a minimal approach to urban bike share.

Korean artist-designer wows with creative use of ordinary materials.

Alex Kovatchev finds a useful function for old washing machine drums.

Report says exposure to BPA in canned food is "far more extensive" than plastic bottles.

But do the functional benefits meet the aesthetic aims?

Score one for the environment.