While bamboo has been used in construction in Asia for thousands of years, it’s starting to catch on in sustainable housing development in parts of the United States and other places in the world.

Traditional brick school facades could become a thing of the past as educational institutions aim for sustainability. Last week, I took a look at Project FROG’s modular school design, and now Bamboo ...

Ever dream of living in a tree house? For Dr. Kat Van Kirk, who owns a bamboo home in Kapa‘a, that dream has become a reality. “It is like living in a tree house 24/7,” Van Kirk said. Van Kirk You ...

The ugly concrete slabs that line urban highways might seem like a necessary evil. Without them, anyone living nearby would have to deal with traffic noise that was twice as loud. In Amsterdam, the ...

Our fascination with prefab buildings knows no bounds — but add bamboo to the mix and you’ve really got our attention. These two beautiful houses in Hawaii were recently built using bamboo as the main ...

Just about everyone has heard of bamboo with the ‘go green’ craze. Whereas some may think of a small indoor plant that is nearly impossible to kill, and others imagine a giant fuzzy panda bear eating ...

These unique bamboo houses are part of a much larger disaster resistant community concept for the Philippines designed by a group of Indian architects – Komal Gupta, Vasanth Packirisamy, Vikas Sharma, ...

The initiative began with courage. The local community offered its gaucharan - the shared grazing land - for an experiment in regeneration. What seemed like a gamble has grown into a model of ...