This video shows the building of a rammed-earth community centre in Bangladesh designed by German architect Anna Heringer, which recently won the Obel Award. More about Video reveals Obel Award-winning community centre in Bangladesh
Vibrant green walls surround a chunky rammed-earth counter in this garden-themed pop-up shop in LA that creatives Alex Reed and Dutra Brown have designed for lifestyle brand Flamingo Estate. More about Rammed-earth counter anchors Flamingo Estate pop-up in Los Angeles
Dezeen promotion: a community centre in Bangladesh designed by German architect Anna Heringer has won the second edition of the prestigious Obel Award. More about Bamboo and rammed-earth therapy centre in Bangladesh wins 2020 Obel Award
Gitai Architects used rammed earth and stones from the nearby Mitzpe Ramon crater to build the Landroom observatory in Israel's Negev desert. More about Gitai Architects builds rammed-earth observatory in the Negev desert
São Paulo studio Arquipélago Arquitetos has built a house with walls made of rammed earth in the countryside of Brazil. More about Arquipélago Arquitetos builds low-slung Brazilian house with rammed earth
Mexican architecture firm RIMA Design Group has connected several structures made from rammed earth with wood pergolas to form an arts centre in Los Cabos, Mexico. More about RIMA Design Group designs rammed-earth arts centre in Los Cabos
Bayalpata Hospital is a medical complex in Achham, Nepal, built from rammed earth by American architecture office Sharon Davis Design. More about Sharon Davis Design builds rammed-earth hospital in Nepal
Twelve volumes built with rammed earth form this residence in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, designed by Cherem Arquitectos. More about Cherem Arquitectos separates Casa Candelaria into 12 blocks
New York architect Marc Thorpe has developed a prototype house made from earth bricks, to house the makers of Moroso's M'Afrique furniture collection. More about Marc Thorpe designs Dakar Houses for Moroso furniture makers in Senegal
Trace Architecture Office has inserted a bookshop and cafe into old rammed earth gables of a long-abandoned house in rural China. More about Bookshop in paddy field sandwiched between walls of abandoned house
Bamboo bookshelves line the triple-height atrium of a glass-walled capsule hotel and library in Zhejiang Province, China, by Atelier Tao+C. More about Atelier Tao+C lines walls of capsule hotel with bamboo bookshelves
Reflecting on last week's climate summit, we're showcasing alternatives to concrete in this week's new Pinterest boards. Branch out with our spruced-up boards featuring cross-laminated timber high rises, bamboo structures and enclosures with rammed-earth walls. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More about Ditch concrete and steel with our Pinterest boards unearthing alternative building materials
We've updated our Pinterest board dedicated to the best uses of rammed earth in architecture, including a Chinese art museum with clay-heavy earth walls and a small shelter on the desert campus of Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Tapered, rammed-earth walls support the roof of this small shelter that architecture student Conor Denison has built on the desert campus of Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin in Scottsdale. More about Student builds rammed-earth shelter at Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture school
Mexican architect Frida Escobedo sourced rammed earth from her home country to make the rosy brick walls in this Aesop store in Brooklyn. More about Frida Escobedo segments Aesop Park Slope with rammed-earth brickwork
Quito's Rama Estudio has used thick rammed-earth walls and large windows to prop up the slanted roof that covers this residence, built among a eucalyptus plantation in Ecuador. More about Angled roof tops rammed-earth walls of Rama Estudio's Casa Lasso in rural Ecuador
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed a house in Hanoi featuring walls made from different types of rammed earth, and gabled roofs incorporating planters used to grow fruit trees. More about Fruit trees grow from the roofs of Vo Trong Nghia's stripy rammed-earth house
This award-winning prototype house developed for a Chinese village destroyed by earthquake could protect millions of people around the world, claims architecture professor Edward Ng in this movie Dezeen filmed at World Architecture Festival 2017. More about World Building of the Year 2017 could help 100 million people, says Edward Ng
This art museum is located on the outskirts of Jingdezhen, a city famed for its porcelain production, so architecture studio DL Atelier chose to use the local clay-heavy earth for its walls. More about DL Atelier builds museum with rammed-earth walls near China's "porcelain capital"
Last week, a rural Chinese house with rammed-earth walls was named World Building of the Year 2017. As a result, our latest Pinterest board showcases a range of buildings created using this material, including a cultural centre in a Senegalese village and a desert house in Arizona. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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