Designed for decay: A 3D printable yeast-based biomaterial
A team at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has worked out how to turn baker’s yeast into an architectural surface.
The ultimate guide to lime and lime plasters
A reference guide to one of the oldest building materials, and its misunderstood revival.
A CLT house buried into a hillside
Hello Wood’s CLT House shelters into a sloping site outside Budapest, where a timber structure and green roof make for a home at ease in nature.
The alchemy of making – takeaways from Tactile Dialogues
So much gets lost when we only see the perfection of a finished object – but peeling back the layers and getting insight into the process are where the real ideas live. Notes from the Tactile Dialogues panel at Melbourne Design Week.
The Melbourne Design Week 2026 hitlist
With thirty-plus events on bio-materials, repair and circularity, this year’s design week highlights that sustainability concepts have beyond the fringe.
The Apple House is an imaginative test of natural materials
A community building with heart, The Apple House features hemp, lime plaster, spruce glulam and an earthen floor – all with a respectful outlook to the surrounding orchard.
La Crêta Farmhouse shows us the art of taking away
The most profound thing Bard Yersin did to this 18th-century Fribourg farmhouse was strip away layers from an earlier renovation. La Crêta is an adaptive reuse project that proves sustainable design’s most powerful tool is restraint.
