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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

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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

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

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11 Nov 2026

Growing Facade Mycelium Panels Move Indoors as Acoustic Tiles

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

Poplar Bark Shingles Wrap an Office on the Blaricum Heath

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Two researchers in lab coats beside a shaker with bottles of mycelium culture

Glowing Mycelium Sculptures Head to Berlin Science Week

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Hand holding a petri dish with a tuft of light blue dyed cotton

Engineered Yeast Brews Purple-Blue Dye for Scarves and Cellulose

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Open study floor under a deep coffered timber ceiling with curved pale walls and a brick floor

Hempcrete and Tasmanian Oak Turn Hobart Warehouses Into a Campus

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Group of people standing in front of a wall of brown and grey biobased panels in an office space

Seaweed and Plant-Fibre Boards Form a Prefab Biobased Partition Wall

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Visitors at a curved timber stand with hempcrete blocks and material samples

Spiral Stand Traces 50 Years of Bio-Logical Building in the Netherlands

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

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

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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

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

Short Flax Fibres Pressed Into Curved Furniture Parts

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