Disaster relief
Playrise’s easy-build playground lets kids be kids even when fleeing war
Samara installs its first factory-built home in Los Angeles rebuild effort
Lebanese students create drone noise-blocking headphones and more designs for life under conflict
“The knowledge we have built from storm to storm is the true legacy of Hurricane Katrina”
Los Angeles mayor issues executive order for “residents to rapidly rebuild”
Pyri wildfire detection device melts in response to fire
Yasmeen Lari on track to build a million flood-resilient Pakistan homes by 2024
“It is time for all of us to become aware of the gravity of the situation”
“The trees themselves” raise wildfire alarm in ForestGuard detection system
“How we respond to disasters tells us a lot about our future”
Shigeru Ban brings Paper Log House to Morocco in wake of earthquake
Norman Foster Foundation and Holcim reveal concrete emergency housing prototype
Architects concerned by disjointed LA wildfires rebuild
Klein Dytham Architecture completes community centre post-earthquake in Noroshi
“Pessimism plays a crucial part in design”
“In post-disaster cities like Los Angeles, we need new model homes and we need them now”
Engaging with locals aids “healing” say post-earthquake masterplanners
Ten designs and buildings that reduce the impact of environmental hazards
Worsening natural hazards an “opportunity” to rethink cities says Amy Chester
“Design professionals can make choices to prove that disasters are not natural”
Disasters “very rarely not a design failure” says expert Lucy Easthope
Disaster is well and truly upon us
“Earthquakes don’t kill people, bad buildings do”