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- Thinking Huts and Studio Mortazavi plan a 3D-printed school in Madagascar Wed, 17 Mar 21, 5:30amInternational architectural firm Studio Mortazavi has teamed up with Colorado-based nonprofit Thinking Huts to propose designs for the world’s first 3D-printed school to be located in southern Madagascar...
- Zimbabwe permaculture education center promotes self-sufficiency Sat, 12 Dec 20, 2:30amGerman architecture firm Studio Anna Heringer has completed the first kindergarten in Zimbabwe's Chimanimani District, a rural and desolate region home to about 200 families that have long lacked access...
- Inspiring mud-and-bamboo Anandaloy Building uplifts a Bangladeshi community Fri, 27 Nov 20, 6:30amGerman architecture practice Studio Anna Heringer has received the international architecture prize OBEL AWARD 2020 for its work on the Anandaloy Building, an unconventional project combining sustainable construction and...
- LEED-seeking apartments house formerly homeless families in San Francisco Sat, 23 May 20, 12:30amDavid Baker Architects has completed 222 Taylor, an affordable housing complex in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Designed with more than 100 affordable housing units for low-income households and families and...
- Architects design COVID-19 mobile testing labs for underserved communities Fri, 22 May 20, 1:30amPerkins and Will’s New York studio has teamed up with Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and multidisciplinary design group Arup to create a proposal for retrofitting defunct school buses into mobile COVID-19...
- Inspiring rammed earth hospital brings affordable care to rural Nepal Wed, 29 Apr 20, 1:30amAn inspiring beacon of humanitarian architecture has arrived to one of the poorest and most remote regions of Nepal — the new Bayalpata Hospital in Accham...
- Local earth bricks form this inspiring co-working space in Ouagadougou Tue, 3 Mar 20, 3:30amunlimitedJCA, the pro-bono branch of Prague-based design studio Jakub Cigler Architekti, has completed JUMPHUB, a co-working space for young professionals in the Burkina Faso capital that also raises awareness for sustainable...
- Self-sustaining Ugandan surgical facility provides healthcare to underserved areas Wed, 22 Jan 20, 3:30amIn an inspiring example of humanitarian architecture, Kliment Halsband Architects teamed up with Mount Sinai Surgery in New York to create the Mount Sinai Kyabirwa Uganda Surgical Facility, a prototype for an independent,...
- Elevated bamboo housing protects an Indian community from floods Fri, 18 Oct 19, 5:30amAfter the catastrophic 2017 Northeast India floods ravaged the state of Assam, the nonprofit SEEDS (Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society) teamed up with local organization NEADS (North-East Affected...
- Cutwork proposes innovative just add water housing for refugees Tue, 24 Sep 19, 4:30amIn a bid to alleviate the global refugee housing crisis, Paris-based design studio Cutwork developed a conceptual housing proposal that it says will only take one day and, at minimum, two people without special construction...
- Desmond Tutu Clinic welcomes HIV patients with a striking sawtooth roof Thu, 13 Jun 19, 4:30amIn the Cape Town township of Masiphumelele, approximately 30 percent of the residents are infected with HIV. To help the low-income community, South African architectural practice theMAAK partnered with the Desmond Tutu HIV...
- Eco-friendly AgriNesture buildings promote agriculture and job growth in Vietnam Tue, 11 Sep 18, 2:30amAlthough the majority of Vietnam’s population relies on agriculture, rapid industrialization and a skyrocketing population in recent years has led to urban sprawl and the decimation of fertile agricultural land...
- Life-saving LifeArk snaps together like LEGO to provide emergency off-grid housing Mon, 28 Aug 17, 8:45pmArchitect Charles Wee didn’t have grand plans to save the world—but that’s exactly what his incredible LifeArk could do. Designed for disaster relief, LifeArk is a prefabricated, modular building system for quickly...
- 10 groundbreaking designs by Shigeru Ban that changed our ideas about architecture Tue, 9 May 17, 5:01amShigeru Ban, one of Inhabitat's favorite architects, is renowned for his disaster relief design and his ingenious use of lightweight, unconventional, and environmentally responsible materials -- in particular, paper and bamboo...
- Ingenious cardboard and bamboo emergency shelters by Shigeru Ban pop up in Sydney Wed, 29 Mar 17, 10:45pmPritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is widely known and respected for his 20 year career in designing groundbreaking buildings from cardboard, paper and other unexpected materials, as well as his humanitarian...