Soba bamboo furniture by Stefan Diez naturally changes colour over time
This flat-pack bamboo bench and trestle by German designer Stefan Diez is held together with string and doesn't require any tools or fixings to assemble. More
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Toshiko Mori uses compressed earth and bamboo for cultural hub in remote Senegalese village
This cultural centre in Senegal by Japanese architect Toshiko Mori was constructed using exclusively local materials and techniques – and has been recognised in the architecture category of the 2017 AIA Awards. More
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Li Hao uses mirrored glass and bamboo for reflective pavilion in southern China
Architect Li Hao has clad this bamboo and wood pavilion in mirrored glass to reflect the historic town in southern China that it faces. More
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Students erect arching bamboo events pavilion in Hong Kong
One-minute movie: Chinese University of Hong Kong students created this curving pavilion from bent bamboo poles and translucent fabric to host a series of events that promote low-carbon living and construction. More
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Arching bamboo events pavilion in Hong Kong showcases digital fabrication
Bent bamboo poles and translucent fabric make up this curving events pavilion by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, which explores how traditional materials can be combined with digital fabrication. More
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Studio Mumbai presents MPavilion 2016 built using seven kilometres of bamboo
Studio Mumbai founder Bijoy Jain has unveiled his completed MPavilion in Melbourne – a square structure built from bamboo and wood, but not the cow dung originally planned. More
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Vo Trong Nghia uses bamboo ladders to build pavilion at Sydney's SCAF gallery
Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia is continuing his bid to make bamboo "the green steel of the 21st century" with this gridded pavilion at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in Sydney (+ slideshow). More
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Studio Mumbai to use bamboo and cow dung to build third MPavilion in Melbourne
Studio Mumbai founder Bijoy Jain has revealed his design for this year's MPavilion, billed to become the largest bamboo structure ever built in Australia (+ movie). More
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Shakespearean-style wooden theatre by Studio Andrew Todd opens in France
Towering bamboo poles encase this cylindrical wooden theatre in France, which opened in a fanfare last week, despite suffering vandalism just a few days before (+ slideshow). More
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Five Line Projects builds London pavilion filled with spinning propellers
London Festival of Architecture 2016: stainless steel rods support a tactile system of spinning bamboo pinwheels inside this east London pavilion by design studio Five Line Projects (+ slideshow). More
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Meditating twice a day keeps staff at Vo Trong Nghia Architects focused, claims founder
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia has revealed that he makes his staff meditate every day to help them "resist cravings and improve concentration". More
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Vo Trong Nghia creates bamboo and thatch domes for Diamond Island Community Centre
Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has built a community centre of eight pavilions, each with intricate bamboo structures and thatched rooftops (+ slideshow). More
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Bamboo playhouse by Eleena Jamil built on a lake island in Kuala Lumpur's botanical gardens
Malaysian architect Eleena Jamil has built a bamboo pavilion in Kuala Lumpur's botanical gardens, featuring tree-like columns and a floor made up of 31 elevated platforms (+ slideshow). More
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Bamboo fibre is stronger and cheaper than steel, says Dirk Hebel
World Architecture Festival 2015: bamboo could "revolutionise the building industry" and replace steel as the dominant reinforcing material, according to a professor who is working on new applications for the grass. More
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Jun Sekino replaces earthquake-damaged school in Thailand with stilted classrooms
Bangkok-based architect Jun Sekino designed these elevated classrooms in northern Thailand in response to a severe earthquake, which destroyed the school's original building (+ slideshow). More
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Penda unveils vision for bamboo city made from interlocking modular components
Architecture studio Penda has unveiled new CGI renderings detailing its vision for a city of 200,000 people that would be creating using an innovative modular bamboo structure. More
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Thatched "umbrella-like" roof tops bamboo community centre by Vo Trong Nghia
A thatched roof shaped like a giant parasol shelters this bamboo community centre by Vo Trong Nghia, which is built over a pond in a south Vietnam village (+ slideshow). More
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Vo Trong Nghia adds bamboo restaurant and beach bar to spa resort in Vietnam
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has added three bamboo buildings with thatched roofs to the Naman Retreat in Vietnam, including a restaurant filled with huge trumpet-shaped columns (+ slideshow). More
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Penda's bamboo pavilion could be expanded to create homes for 200,000 people
Architecture studio Penda has created a rope-bound bamboo pavilion as a mock up of a modular housing system developed to provide sustainable housing schemes for populations of up to 200,000 (+ slideshow). More
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Vo Trong Nghia plans trio of towers covered in bamboo plants and linked by bridges
Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled plans for a trio of housing towers in Ho Chi Minh City linked by aerial bridges and shielded from the harsh tropical sunlight by swathes of bamboo (+ slideshow). More
