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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

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

Bio-based materials+3

Four wall knobs with orange, green, blue and lilac caps on brushed steel stems

Collaborations

6 Nov 2026

Wooning and David Derksen Turn Rotterdam’s Port Into Bathroom Accessories

Collaborations

Circular+1

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

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

Bio-based materials+3

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

Wall of pressed steel truck parts and perforated metal rings inside The Metal House

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

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

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

Sara Farha and Khaled Shalkha Turn Date Pits Into Pavers

Bio-based materials+1