More Bamboo Brilliance
Flamingo Dailai Resort, Vietnam – Vo Trong Nghia Architects Gross Floor Area:  1,600 sqm Photography: Hiroyuki Oki OK – so it’s not a home. But it is a wonderful example of the beauty and flexibility of the world’s most renewable timber… bamboo. Bamboo is incredibly strong due to it’s long fibres and high silica content. […]
Forest for a Moon Dazzler
Guanacaste, Costa Rica  –  Ben Gracia Saxe Built:   2010 Bamboo is an extraordinarily versatile material.  It’s strong, flexible, lightweight, totally renewable and, potentially very long lasting even when in ground.  The home shown here uses bamboo in both conventional and very unconventional ways.  It’s a home ideally suited to it’s hot, humid locale – open and […]
The Green Village
Bali, Indonesia – PT Bambu Built area: 18,700 m2 (201,285 sq. ft) Year built: 2010 Photography: Courtesy of Bambu Indah Collection The infinite joy of bamboo Some time back we showed you the magnificent Green School of Bali.  Using totally sustainable materials and practices, Elora Hardy and her team built, what must surely be, every child’s […]
The Green School of Bali
Bali, Indonesia – John and Cynthia Hardy Builders: PT Bambu Rainforests continue to disappear at an alarming rate.  Environmentalists and designers, John and Cynthia Hardy have experienced the loss and degradation first hand in their adopted home, Bali.  The Hardys wanted to motivate communities to live sustainably, thereby protecting those forests. Building sustainably with bamboo is a key part […]
Bamboo Brilliance – Wind and Water Cafe
 Vietnam – Vo Trong Nghia Vietnam has a long tradition of bamboo construction. When local architects, Vo Trong Nghia were briefed to design a bar come meeting place, bamboo seemed a natural candidate. The Water and Wind CafĂ© in the southern province of Binh Duong subsequently won Nghia the 2007 International Architecture Award (IAA).  Since then […]
A Child’s Paradise
Koh Kood  Thailand  –  24H Architecture It’s not a home – but it could be.  It’s an activity centre for children who’s parents have invested in a vacation at the fabulous (and very expensive) Soneva Kiri Resort.  We featured the resort on our Facebook page about a month ago but held this treat back as […]
Gather – smaller but larger
Osaka-City  Japan  –   Katsuhiro Miyamoto and Associates Site area:   120.34 m2  (1,300 sq. ft.) Building envelope:   72.08 m2  (778 sq. ft.) Total built area:   135 m2  (1,458 sq. ft.) Year built:   2009 This Osaka home presented some unique challenges.  Firstly, it contravened the allowable site ratio for the […]
Bamboo in Construction
Bamboo – the miracle resource. No other plant on earth has the multitude of uses that bamboo does. It can be used for shelter, to pipe water, for utensils to cook in and with, for forks, knives and chopsticks, for the plates the food is served on and even the napkin on your lap as […]