After a unanimous local vote in 1996, the Swedish town of Växjö became the first in the world to commit to becoming fossil fuel free
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Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses
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Bamboo rising: Lari Octa Green shelters by Yasmeen Lari in Sindh province, Pakistan
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Why a Dutch designer is knitting jumpers from human hair
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At the Icelandic home of Katrín Þorvaldsdóttir, foraged material like seaweed is turned into masks, clothing and even shoes
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What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker
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Concrete stamp from Swiss Post
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Urban development company Atrium Ljungberg has unveiled plans to construct the world's largest wooden neighbourhood in Stockholm
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Potash buildings
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Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi.
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Why Norway's churches look weird
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Is Helsinki city centre's new neighbourhood, Wood City, the future of building? Developers are increasingly swapping out concrete and steel in favour of wood
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An overview of concrete forming technology
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Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed Icelandic homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments
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Infinited Fiber has invested heavily in a technology which can transform textiles that would otherwise be burned or sent to landfills into a new clothing fibre
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Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
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Wood construction and the risk of fire
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How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century
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Denmark’s 300-year-old homes of the future – thatched with a seaweed that has the potential to be a contemporary building material
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Concrete Utopia: An art exhibition on Yugoslavia documents an extraordinary architectural legacy that has been neglected by mainstream historians
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Neri Oxman's new glass printing technique could lead to 3D-printed glass building facades
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A 23-year-old designer has won a top £50,000 ($64,385) prize after creating a low-cost bamboo housing unit to address the Philippines' slum crisis
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From skyscraper to 'plyscraper': The towering potential of timber
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