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Courtyard garden framed by layered rammed earth walls and timber glazing

Unstabilised Rammed Earth Walls Anchor a Wiltshire Country House

Black shipping container home with a fully glazed end and a timber terrace in a field

Hand-Picked Birch Plywood Lines a 24 m² Shipping Container Retreat

Freestanding wall of blue and grey moulded felt modules in an office lounge

Feltouch Brings Modular Felt Walls and a Binder-Free Waste Brick to ORGATEC

Christien Meindertsma in her studio, with a wool relief and a photo of a sheep behind her

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4 Nov 2026

Christien Meindertsma Receives First Paul Deiters Prize for Research-Driven Design

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Bio-based materials+3

Ten-Storey Timber Tower in Delft Does Without a Concrete Core

Two men in a workshop inspecting a large carved ash form for a chair

Seat Joiner and Interior Architect Win French Craft Prize With Ash Chair

Sense & Sensibility+1

Truck Pressings and Steel Offcuts Build a Life-Size Metal House

Open timber pavilion with straw bale walls in a meadow, loose bales in front

Straw Bales and Timber Frames Build a Shelter That Returns to the Soil

Bio-based materials+2

Two ash chairs with ribbed natural-fibre seats and backs beside an oval table

Short Flax Fibres Pressed Into Curved Furniture Parts

Bio-based materials+1

Two-storey timber-clad school building with a green roof and solar panels at dusk

Mass Timber Passivhaus School Takes Australia’s Top Timber Design Award

Net Zero & Carbon+1

Wool rug in blocks of blue, sage, pink and white on a stone floor under a vaulted ceiling

Five Designers Shape an Intimate Room in Hand-Tufted Wool

Leisure & Hospitality+1

Stepped ochre earth wall standing in a grassy field with trees behind

Robotically Sprayed Earth Forms a Noise Barrier Without Steel

Hemp and Flax Fill Eindhoven’s Shared Social Housing Stream

Bio-based materials+2