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Sustainable RAUM Pavilion can be continually reused or recycled in Utrecht

Utrecht's burgeoning cultural hotspot at Berlijnplein (Berlin Square) has recently gained the RAUM Pavilion, a...

Urban Brains by Eleena Jamil, Urban Brains pavilion, Urban Brains UNHabitat, Urban Brains Kuala Lumpur, World Urban Forum 2018 pavilion, World Urban Forum 2018 Kuala Lumpur, UNHabitat Kuala Lumpur architecture, bamboo pavilion in Kuala Lumpur

Colorful bamboo pavilion champions sustainable design in Kuala Lumpur

Renewable and fast-growing bamboo is catching on in the world of construction. To spur on the green material’s...

Origami by Manuel Bouzas Cavada Manuel Bouzas Barcala and Clara Álvarez Garcí, Origami Concéntrico 03, Concéntrico 03 festival, Concéntrico 03 2017, Concéntrico 03 architecture, Logroño Origami, Logroño Concéntrico 03,

Beautiful timber pavilion unfolds like origami

There’s something irresistibly charming about bringing the paper art of origami to life in large scale. Architects...

Ofis Arhitekti, modular design, wooden structures, temporary structure, library, Ljubljana, Slovenia, green architecture, temporary architecture, flexible spaces, concrete, cabin, temporary shelter, treehouse

These wooden blocks can be stacked up to create cabins, treehouses, and wilderness shelters

Most cabins lie flat upon the earth - but Ofis Arhitekti just unveiled a wooden retreat that's stacked up into...

Marston Court, emergency housing, temporary housing, London, affordable housing, shipping containers, brownfield site, CargoTek, ISO Spaces, green architecture, temporary architecture, modular architecture

London's Marston Court transforms shipping containers into emergency housing for the homeless

A newly-constructed emergency housing development in London's Ealing borough provides 34 temporary apartments to...

Shigeru Ban, Emergency shelters, disaster shelters, cardboard home, bamboo home, emergency cardboard home, Shigeru Ban Architects, shelter design, disaster shelters, disaster structures, humanitarian design, temporary architecture, cardboard architecture, temporary shelter, shelter structures, bamboos structures, locally-sourced materials, Ecuado, bamboo shelters, Pritzker Prize architects, affordable housing, cardboard housing, green design, humanitarian architecture

Ingenious cardboard and bamboo emergency shelters by Shigeru Ban pop up in Sydney

Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is widely known and respected for his 20 year career in designing...

People's Architecture Office, Plugin Tower, modular housing, Shenzhen, temporary residence, temporary architecture, module, China,Plugin Panel system, prefab, green architecture, temporary stucture, steel frame

Plugin Tower is a low-cost modular home with no foundation

Plugin Tower is a modular multi-story home in Shenzhen, China that circumvents strict planning regulations by eliminating...

Serpentine Gallery London, Barkow Leibinger, Kunlé Adeyemi, Yona Friedman, Asif Kahn, Serpentine Pavilion 2016, Bjarke Ingels, temporary architecture, architecture installation, architecture exhibition london

BIG unveils first images of the 2016 Serpentine Gallery pavilion

Bjarke Ingels’ design stacks fibreglass bricks high, creating a curved wall that splits to invite visitors inside....

HEX-SYS modular building system, Open Architecture, hexagonal building system, modular building, China, buildings that don't need glue or welding, open architecture modular design, open architecture hexagonal prefab construction

Eye-catching hexagonal buildings go up in a snap - no glue or welding required

The showroom, designed for real estate giant Vanke and located close to the new Guangzhou South Railway Station,...

Oasis pavilion, OBBA, Seoul, South Korea, Alvaro Siza, Amore Pacific Research and Design Center, temporary pavilion, temporary architecture, temporary shelter, outdoor exhibition, art exhibition

OBBA's Oasis temporary pavilion in Seoul dances in the wind like willow leaves

The design of the pavilion is in line with APMAP's overarching theme of blurring the boundary between ordinary...

BUREAU A, Steelhenge, Stonehenge, temporary architecture, shipping containers, reused materials, Geneva, Switzerland, green architecture, exhibition spaces

BUREAU A recreates Stonehenge with stacked shipping containers

BUREAU A was commissioned to built a temporary venue for the first edition of the biennale for independent art...

micro dwellings, Chicago Architecture Biennial, All(zone), affordable housing, temporary housing, temporary architecture, Bangkok, Thailand

All(zone) micro dwellings are affordable tiny housing cubes for abandoned towers

Inspired by Thailand's vernacular architecture, based on the idea of flexibility and easy transportation, Bangkok...

Amanda Levete, MPavilion, Australia, Serpentine, temporary pavilion, temporary architecture, fiberglass architecture, LED lights, green lighting, kinetic architecture, Melbourne architecture

Amanda Levete's gorgeous immersive petal-shaped MPavilion opens in Melbourne

The ultra lightcanopy is made up of 13 large and 30 smaller interlinked fiberglass petals varying in diameter from...

Estudio 3.14, inflatable museum, inflatable architecture, temporary architecture, green architecture, lightweight structure, temporary museum, temporary exhibition, Mexico, Guadalajara

Inflatable traveling museum brings the story of pre-Hispanic Mexico to local school children

The traveling museum is part of a state-supported program that aims to educate elementary school students about...

Orangery, pavilion, plastic structure, plastic architecture, green church, temporary architecture, Lenschow & Pihlmann, temporary shelter, art gallery, reused materials, green design, translucent envelope, Denmark

A classic Baroque church is reimagined as a glowing Orangery in Denmark

The Orangery was built using the floor plan of Borromini's famous Baroque church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane...

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