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Unfinished apartment with exposed cross-laminated timber walls, beams and columns and red window frames

Cross-Laminated Timber Frames 40 Cooperative Homes in Amsterdam

Pleated paper partitions in deep blue and pale blue around a table with two people

Gmund Paper Gives molo’s Sloped Softwall Two New Blues

Wall of purple leather hexagons with iridescent shell-like inlays

Tuscan Studio Pieces Leather Together Like Marquetry for Walls and Yachts

Hands separating dried 3D printed earth from a white plastic reinforcement strand

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12 Nov 2026

WASP Reinforces 3D Printed Earth With Removable Plastic Layers

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Circular+2

Reed particle board panel in a timber frame with a red connector, reed stems and thatch

Baltic Reed Pressed Into Biodegradable Boards for an Island Community

Bio-based materials+2

Grey and sand-coloured hemp acoustic panels arranged in rectangles on a timber wall above lecture hall doors

Carbon-Storing Hemp Panels Quieten a Graz Lecture Hall

Barn interior with crop samples, jars and biobased blocks displayed on low plinths

Ageing Facade Panels and Hand-Spun Flax at Nieuw Zwanenburg

Bio-based materials+2

Framed wall of grown mycelium relief panels with organic plant and serpent-like forms

Growing Facade Mycelium Panels Move Indoors as Acoustic Tiles

Office clad in poplar bark shingles under a planted roof among pine trees

Poplar Bark Shingles Wrap an Office on the Blaricum Heath

Bio-based materials+2

Glowing lava lamp columns repeated in red mirror walls

Sabine Marcelis Brings Resin, Glass and Light to Her First Museum Show

Sense & Sensibility+1

Two terracotta 3D printed seats tilted on paving

Discarded Harbour Ropes Become Swinging Seats in Rotterdam

Lit path between walls of stacked reclaimed clay roof tiles under orchard trees at dusk

Six Million Reclaimed Roof Tiles Build a Museum Near Hanoi

Two Brico Arc benches combining walnut, ash, purpleheart, mahogany and black-stained oak

Martin Kechayas Named Designer of the Year for Furniture From Residual Wood