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Di-Lab - American University of Beirut, Tyre Nature Reserve Hub, MARAH pavilion, beach pavilion, temporary pavilion, Lebanon, temporary installation, Tyre Coast Nature Reserve, green architecture, marine biodiversity, lightweight structure

Stunning temporary beach pavilion rises in Lebanon’s Tyre Coast Nature Reserve

Wood, metal ties and rope come together in this lightweight structure designed to raise awareness of Lebanon's...

Margot Krasojević Architects, Self-Excavation Hurricane House, hurricane-proof house, lightweight structure, hurricanes, water purification, land reclamation, green architecture

This spinning house uses the force of hurricanes to anchor itself to the ground

This futuristic, hurricane-proof home is cleverly designed to use the force of storms to withstand extreme wind...

Synergia pavilion, temporary structure, temporary pavilion, origami, IU School of Art, Architectuare + Design, Jiangmei Wu, Eero Saarinen, lightweight structure, recycled plastic, green architecture, biomimetic design, LED lights

Spectacular origami pavilion made of recycled plastic pops up in Columbus, Indiana

This gorgeous origami-inspired building in Columbus, Indiana is made entirely from recycled plastic - and it lights...

Benjamin Garcia Saxe, Ocean Eye house, Costa Rica, WAN Awards, jungle, terraces, jungle, green architecture, lightweight structure

Airy Costa Rica home enjoys incredible views of the ocean and jungle

This gorgeous Costa Rican residence occupies a unique location near Santa Teresa Beach, where the jungle meets...

SCARAB remote habitat, Eric Wang Associates, mobile home, concept design, research station, carbon fiber, battery, water filtration system, storage, lightweight structure, pontoon, air filtration

Self-sufficient SCARAB remote living habitat can be placed almost anywhere

This completely self-sufficient, lightweight mobile home makes remote living feasible practically anywhere. The...

Hybrid Tower, CITA - Centre for Information Technology and Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, textile green tower, lightweight structure, Contextile, knitting, CNC machine, digital fabrication, green architecture

Tower made completely from fabric breaks new ground in “soft architecture”

This 30-foot lightweight tower proves that the strongest architectural structures don't have to be made from hard...

Pinecones Resort, 3GATTI Architecture Studio, OFL Architecture, eco-resort, Latvia, ETFE, ETFE membrane, recyclable building materials, lightweight structure, water filtration, geothermal, solar windows, green architecture, natural building materials, locally sourced materials

Inflatable spiky pinecone-shaped roofs top this forest resort in Latvia

Spiky ETFE roofs top this airy forest resort and spa in the historic region of Kurzeme, Latvia. 3GATTI Architecture...

Trabeculae Pavilion, Politecnico di Milano, Made Expo 2017, lightweight structure, pavilion, biomimicry, Filoalfa, 3d printing, green architecture, biopolymer

3D-printed pavilion is modeled on the microstructure of bones

The research team at the Politecnico di Milano school of architecture designed and built a fully 3d-printed pavilion...

Latvian design, Didzis Jaunzems Arhitektūra, striking pavilion plays with the wind, Nature Concert Hall, Gauja National Park, lightweight structure, outdoors events, fabric skin, fabric that plays with light, fabric that plays with wind

Latvia’s Nature Concert Hall has a fabric skin that plays with the wind

Latvian studio Didzis Jaunzems Arhitektūra recently completed construction of the Nature Concert Hall, a striking...

Cantilever House, prefab house in Little Rock, affordable prefab home in Arkansas, modular house designed by students

Arkansas university students designed this prefab cantilevering home for $136 per square foot

The modules were stacked perpendicular to one another, with the lower volume housing the kitchen, living and dining...

Habitat Tropical du Cameroun, Jean Prouvé, exhibition space, Friche de l’Escalette exhibition, Éric Touchaleaume, lightweight structure, steel structure, Marseille, Parc National des Calanques, steel frame

Unique exhibition in France resurrects Jean Prouvé’s lightweight steel structures

The site will become a setting where examples of outstanding industrial heritage will be integrated within a labyrinth...

Saunagondel, lightweight structure, sauna, Tarantik & Egger, green design, silver fir wood, extreme weather, panoramic views, wood structure, Switzerland

Swiss ski gondalas transformed into amazing saunas that can be installed anywhere

Tarantik & Egger's Saunagondels are made by combining the frames of original Swiss ski gondolas with custom-­made,...

Erpingham House, prototype house, affordable housing, lightweight structure, MSG Architecture, passive solar design, passive house, green architecture, greywater reuse, solar power

Passive Erpingham House in Australia is affordable, light-filled and easily replicable

The Erpingham House is located on a 290 square meter lot near the port city of Fremantle, Western Australia. The...

Levitat, tree tents, waterproof tent, hammock, camping, suspended tent, green design, waterproof materials, lightweight structure

100% waterproof Levitat tree tent for three fits in your carry-on luggage

Levitat's tree tent promises to revolutionize the way you experience the outdoors. The suspended, lightweight system...

temporary pavilion, Pleated Inflation, informal architecture, amphitheater, Marc Fornes/Theverymany, France, New York architects, lightweight structure, self-supported structure, pavilion

MARC FORNES/THEVERYMANY’s ultralight informal amphitheater in France looks like an opening chrysalis

The structure, commissioned by Region Languedoc Roussillon, is located outside a hospitality school in Argeles-Sur-Mer,...

green roof home in Ecuador, Ángel Hevia Antuña, Luis Velasco Roldan, Ecuador traditional building techniques, green architecture Ecuador, wooden vernacular structure, lightweight wooden home in Ecuador

Tiny green-roofed house proves the superiority of Ecuador’s traditional construction techniques

Using locally-sourced natural materials, the architects managed to build the structure to be easily dismantled...

Pneuhaus, Bubble Dome, inflatable architecture, temporary architecture, geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller, temporary pavilion, lightweight structure, Rhode Island

Pneuhaus’ temporary Bubble Dome is made from hundreds of TPU balls

The designers ordered hundreds of TPU balls from Alibaba and used a thousand feet of hand-sewn nylon webbing to...

Thermo Tent, tent design, eco-camping, camping, thermally insulated material, Ireland, fiberglass, lightweight structure, Kickstarter, tunnel tents

Temperature-regulating Thermo Tents offer the most comfortable camping experience ever

Summer is coming and we can't wait to go camping! However, those freezing nights and hot mornings can suck the...

frei otto, pritzker prize, 2015 laureate, canopy, lightweight structure, german architect, architecture, green architecture, sustainable architecture

Frei Otto named 2015 Pritzker Prize laureate just one day after his death

Frei Otto was just named the 2015 Pritzker Prize laureate in an announcement made one day after the German architect's...

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