Skip to main content

Materials Stories Brands Events Books Talks Channels

Home
Stories

Stories

Channel

Filters

Story type

…

Go to

MaterialDistrict

The leading platform for innovative and sustainable materials — for architects, designers and manufacturers.

Choose your topics and stay updated on the innovations shaping a sustainable built environment.

Discover

Materials Stories Events Talks Books Brands

For specifiers

Create free account Insider membership Compare materials Boards Insider insights

For manufacturers

List your materials Brand profile Reach 80,000+ specifiers Sample requests Innovation Fund

Company

About MaterialDistrict Our mission Frequently asked questions Contact

Contact

info@materialdistrict.com +31 (0)20 71 30 650

MaterialDistrict B.V.
Amsterdamsestraatweg 43-A2
NL-1411 AX Naarden
The Netherlands

Company Number 60837802
VAT Number NL854081732B01

LinkedIn Instagram X

© 1998 – 2026 MaterialDistrictAdd MaterialDistrict to Google

Privacy policy Accessibility Cookies Terms of use

Hemp and Flax Fill Eindhoven’s Shared Social Housing Stream

Bio-based materials+2

Timber atrium with slatted balustrades, a slatted ceiling and skylight, and people seated on a dark bench

Spruce Frame and Donor Steel Shape Krimpenerwaard’s New Town Hall

Biophilic & Human-Centred+2

Derek Stein holding a glass award next to Greg Hirth in front of a Brown Technology Innovations backdrop

Physicist Derek Stein Turns Nanopore Research Into Moisture-Buffering Paint

Healthy & Non-Toxic+1

Close-up of square pavers, some pale with embedded brown palm-frond fibres, others plain sienna

People

29 Oct 2026

Sara Farha and Khaled Shalkha Turn Date Pits Into Pavers

People

Bio-based materials+1

Brick housing blocks with a projecting brick pattern, tall grasses and a paved path

Projecting Bricks Give Stirling Prize Housing a Pixelated Skin

Biophilic & Human-Centred+1

Shallow vault of cut concrete pieces resting on precast concrete capitals in a yard

Arup and Queen’s Belfast Plan a Thames Hub for Salvaged Concrete

Low timber pavilion clad in horizontal larch boards on a grass verge with a bicycle parked in front

Stacked Larch Rest Stop Recalls a Woodpile in Burgsinn

Bio-based materials+2

Pile of discarded sofas and armchairs in a covered dismantling hall

Almere Dismantling Hall Rescues Leather From Discarded Sofas

Tall lit panels of textured recycled glass on dark posts, with a cathedral silhouette at sunset behind

Lee Broom and Brokis Build Beacon From 292 Panels of Recycled Glass

Timber pavilion with splayed columns made of reclaimed mooring posts on a concrete yard

Studio ACTE Builds With Mooring Posts, Rammed Earth and Reclaimed Steel

Group in orange high-visibility vests walking along a new light grey concrete cycle path

Cement-Free Concrete Cycle Path Takes Shape in Flevoland

A-frame timber pavilion with a translucent roof in an autumn landscape

Clara Mu He and Henry Chung Swap Nails for Straps

Rendering of the stepped Ziggurat buildings with coral stone, timber and planted terraces in Coconut Grove

Coral Stone and Ipe Wood Shape Stepped Mixed-Use Development in Miami

Biophilic & Human-Centred+1