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  • Nine buildings constructed using hemp that show the biomaterial's potential

    Hemp is becoming an increasingly popular material among architects seeking to reduce the carbon impact of their projects. Here is a roundup of nine buildings constructed using the versatile cannabis crop. More

    Nat Barker | 6 January 2023 | Leave a comment
  • JamesPlumb fuses bulrush and hemp elements at Cambridge Aesop store

    London design studio JamesPlumb blended handwoven bulrush shelves with earthy hemp accents to create the interiors for this Aesop store in Cambridge, which takes cues from the nearby River Cam. More

    Jane Englefield | 4 January 2023 | Leave a comment
  • Studio AX aims to highlight potential of biomaterials with Danish fairytale-informed pavilion

    Architecture practice Studio AX has showcased the potential of biomaterials with a timber and hemp pavilion at Chart Art Fair, which is captured in this video created as part of the Dezeen x Chart Art Fair 2022 collaboration. More

    Amina Amber | 27 August 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Hemp-clad Tigín Tiny Homes offer a way to "escape the rent trap" says social enterprise

    Irish social enterprise Common Knowledge has teamed up with hemp producer Margent Farm to design a low-carbon micro home that it claims can support people affected by the housing crisis. More

    Amy Frearson | 11 August 2022 | Leave a comment
  • A hemp alternative to steel rebar features in today's Dezeen Agenda newsletter

    The latest edition of our Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a hemp alternative to steel rebar, which could avoid the problem of corrosion and cut carbon emissions from construction. More

    Kate McCusker | 22 March 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Hemp rebar could offer low-cost non-corroding alternative to steel

    Researchers at the USA's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have invented an alternative to steel rebar made from hemp, which they claim avoids the problem of corrosion while cutting carbon emissions from construction. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 15 March 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Hemp fabric by Camira

    Dezeen Showroom: made from one of the world's most carbon-sequestering crops, the Hemp fabric by Camira is designed to showcase a rich variation in tone. More

    Dezeen staff | 9 March 2022
  • Lemoal Lemoal completes first public building in France to be made from hempcrete

    Paris studio Lemoal Lemoal has used hempcrete blocks to build the Pierre Chevet sports centre in France, which the studio believes is the country's first public building built from the biomaterial. More

    James Parkes | 1 August 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Barrault Pressacco uses hempcrete to create social housing in Paris

    Architecture firm Barrault Pressacco used biomaterials including wood and hempcrete to construct this mixed-use building that references traditional Parisian apartment blocks. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 29 July 2021 | Leave a comment
  • See how hemp is cultivated, processed and used to build a house in this movie

    This short film shows how hemp was grown on a Cambridgeshire farm and turned into construction materials that sequester carbon. More

    Francesca Tesler | 10 July 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Use of hemp in architecture and design held back by "ridiculous" UK rules says farmer who built a house from cannabis

    A film producer who established a hemp farm to "pull carbon out of the atmosphere" has attacked UK laws that are holding back production of the biomaterial. More

    Marcus Fairs | 2 July 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Hemp "more effective than trees" at sequestering carbon says Cambridge researcher

    Hemp can capture atmospheric carbon twice as effectively as forests while providing carbon-negative biomaterials for architects and designers, according to Cambridge University researcher Darshil Shah. More

    Marcus Fairs | 30 June 2021 | Leave a comment
  • GreenPee installs hemp urinals in Amsterdam to stop "wild peeing"

    Dutch company GreenPee has installed eight hemp-filled sustainable urinals in Amsterdam to combat an increase in people urinating in the streets after the coronavirus lockdown ended. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 20 August 2020 | Leave a comment
  • ATRA uses hemp fibre and recycled materials for Nerthus-Sofa furniture collection

    Furniture design studio ATRA has created a modular sofa system upholstered with a hemp-based fabric. More

    Kristine Klein | 23 February 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Hemp is used on interior and exterior of zero-carbon Flat House in Cambridgeshire

    Practice Architecture worked alongside hemp farmers to erect this zero-carbon home in Cambridgeshire, England, from pre-fabricated panels in just two days. More

    Natasha Levy | 9 January 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Tav Group builds rural artist's house in Israel with "cannabis walls"

    Walls made of hemp and lime, and local stone make up this sand-coloured house on a hill in northern Israel, which Haifa-based studio Tav Group designed for environmentally conscious artists. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 6 July 2017 | 3 comments
  • Layer uses large hemp tiles to create tessellating Scale partition system

    Benjamin Hubert's London studio Layer has designed a modular screen system made up of triangular hemp tiles for Australian textile company Woven Image (+ slideshow). More

    Emma Tucker | 4 December 2015 | 12 comments
  • Hemp-based render gives striated skin to renovated house by Martens Van Caimere

    A material made by mixing hemp with lime and water forms a new layer of insulation around this house in Belgium, as part of a renovation by Ghent studio Martens Van Caimere Architecten (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 27 October 2015 | 3 comments
  • FRAR transforms a dilapidated French house and barn into a holiday home

    Walls made from a traditional combination of stone and hemp-based plaster contrast with concrete, steel and glass details at this renovated house in the French village of Douvaine (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 28 June 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Yusuke Seki showcases fragile hemp textiles across banks of metal rods

    Lengths of delicately woven fabric were draped over metal skewers at this Tokyo exhibition about the tradition of hemp textiles in Japan (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 19 February 2015 | Leave a comment

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    Chipperfield's work "bland"

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    Chilean beach house

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    Ukrainian house in Antarctica

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    Brutalist library renovation

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