Every year for just a few weeks, a towering bamboo theater rises from Ap Lei Chau, one of the world’s most densely populated islands. As many as 1,000 people will pack the 81-feet-wide, 130-feet-long, ...

In this video, we take you deep into the forest to build a secret underground bamboo house using only simple tools and ...

Bamboo construction has traditionally been rather straightforward: Entire stalks are used to create latticed edifices, or woven in strips to form wall-sized screens. The effect can be stunning, and ...

Bamboo is one of the world’s most useful plants. For thousands of years bamboo has been used in many different ways -- from food to medicine to clothing and, in small ways, as a building material.

We’ve showcased numerous bamboo designs over the years, from furniture to entire buildings, but when it comes to combining green building and renewable materials, Ibuku’s incredible bent-bamboo ...

Despite its status as the world’s most renewable building material, bamboo remains virtually absent from the Philippines’ rapidly expanding urban skylines. While traditional timber takes decades to ...

The curvilinear building extensively makes use of locally sourced, recycled, and natural building materials like bamboo, fly ash, recycled wood, scraps metal, and stone. Built surrounding the Lotus ...

Bamboo can reach heights of 20 meters—as tall as a six-story building—in just a few months. The stalks then take another few years to mature—but still much faster than a pine tree's statelier, decades ...

Modified natural materials will be an essential component of a sustainable future, but first a detailed understanding of their properties is needed. The way heat flows across bamboo cell walls has ...