Denj Lane House / Carter Williamson Architects

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Sydney, Australia

NB01 House / TNT Architecture

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Hoa Lu, Vietnam
  • Architects: TNT Architecture
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  470
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2023

West Bund Dream Center BLDG1+BLDG3 / HCCH Studio

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  • Architects: HCCH Studio
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  20923
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2024

Larivière Foundation / Clusellas Ades + Machado-Silvetti

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Antara Residence / Ark Architecture Studio

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Kerala, India

The Ecological Kaleidoscope of East Nanjing Road: Century Square Reborn / EMBT + TJAD

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  • Architects: EMBT, TJAD
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1200
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2026
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  NBK Architectural Terracotta

Villa Suki / Alexis Dornier

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Primrose House / Robust Architecture Workshop

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Kandy, Sri Lanka

The Politics of Bamboo: From Vernacular Craft to Temporal Infrastructure

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Bamboo is often praised before it is understood. It grows quickly, carries a long history of building cultures, and appears to offer architecture an immediate ecological language. In photographs, it can seem almost self-explanatory: light, natural, renewable, and already aligned with a more sustainable future. Yet this apparent clarity is also what makes bamboo difficult to discuss with precision. Once it becomes a symbol of environmental responsibility, the material itself can disappear behind the image it produces.

This is the risk of bamboo's contemporary revival. It can be imagined too easily as a green substitute for industrial materials, a regional atmosphere, or a softer alternative to the harder languages of steel and concrete. In each case, bamboo is admired before its conditions are understood. The more important question is not whether bamboo is sustainable in a general sense, but what kind of architectural culture it requires: what forms of knowledge, maintenance, regulation, labor, and time are needed for its sustainability to become real.

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TBB Libraries – Hundred Flowers Park Libraries / Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects

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Xinyang, China

We House / longwave studio

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  • Architects: longwave studio
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  112
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2026
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  fritzhansen

Nachan the Antique Courtyard Hotel / PAVA architects

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Chiang Khan, Thailand
  • Architects: PAVA architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1200
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2025

CCE House / ONA - Oficina Nómada de Arquitectura

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Chacras de Coria, Argentina
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  170
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2026
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Aberturas Americanas, Friolatina, Hormiserv, Piedra Americana, Policuyo, +3

The Art House / Spaces Architects@ka

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Delhi, India

House Awasi / Caceres + Tous

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Lombok, Indonesia

Gulzar’s Residence / Field Architects

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Chuchot, India
  • Architects: Field Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3225 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2024

Timber Studio / Koichi Takada Architects

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Clerestory Garden at Naka-Ikebukuro Park / KEY OPERATION INC. / ARCHITECTS

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