This home doesn’t need a foundation. It’s vastly lighter than a normal house. It costs just $28,000. Oh, and it’s made out of paper. Houses built out of cardboard don’t exactly scream luxury. The ...

A rocker designed by two Louisiana State U. students tied for second place in this year’s Chair Affair. (Chronicle photographs by Lawrence Biemiller) The winning designs went on display Thursday ...

It's an enchanting sight. A thicket of enormous structures, towering 15 to 20 feet over visitors to the Northern Spark festival in Minneapolis, stands illuminated from below, each one a cross between ...

So how does one go about fabricating a form with 16 million facets? Well, the first method you might think of is 3D printing, but according to Hansmeyer, his “computational architecture” is actually ...

The concept of living in a cardboard box got a whole new meaning when design studio Fiction Factory completed their first Wikkelhouse a few years ago. The creative Amsterdam-based studio has been ...

It may be mostly used for packaging, but cardboard is a surprisingly capable building material in the right hands, as highlighted by Shigeru Ban Architects with its eye-catching Blue Ocean Dome. The ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

News: the Cardboard Cathedral designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban opens to the public today in Christchurch, New Zealand. The building was designed by Shigeru Ban as a temporary replacement for ...

When people mistake photographs of your physical prototypes for computer renderings, you know you’ve achieved something amazing. That’s exactly what happened when Michael Hansmeyer showed off his ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who designed Christchurch's "Cardboard Cathedral" in the wake of the city’s devastating 2011 earthquake, ...

UNSW’s Built Environment team designed, prefabricated and pre-assembled the temporary pavilion at the Tramsheds on UNSW’s Randwick campus. They used plywood sheets and cut holes in the wood to create ...