Bamboo-reinforced laterite soil can be as strong as brick masonry with cement mortar, while bamboo grids can safely withstand both live and dead loads, making them suitable for residential floors and ...

Bamboo can also be a tasty snack. Chris Ison/PA Bamboo, a common grass which can be harder to pull apart than steel, has the potential to revolutionise building construction throughout the world. But ...

Architect Shigeru Ban builds churches, houses and pavilions out of paper and bamboo. These are traditional materials of Japanese architecture, but they are anomalous in the modern world of concrete, ...

Archi-Union Architects combined traditional Chinese construction techniques with prefabrication technology to create ‘In Bamboo,’ a pavilion located in Sichuan’s Daoming Town. Created as a ...

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, ...

Structural engineer Ahmad Mazlan Othman’s love affair with bamboo started in 2013 when he was visiting Vietnam. The former president of the Malaysian Bamboo Society was exploring Ho Chi Minh City when ...

Manual for building design aims to encourage low-carbon construction as alternative to steel and concrete An airport made of bamboo? A tower reaching 20 metres high? For many years, bamboo has been ...

Located in Shenzhen, China, the If Factory utilizes a sustainable design that transforms an old and disused factory into a creative mix of office spaces. While the heart of the building contains a ...

A bicycle made from bamboo. Structural engineer Ahmad Mazlan Othman. The bamboo surau in Kuala Nerus, Terengganu was completed in 2024. File photo by Bernama. Besides being used to make lemang, oil ...