Massive Bamboo Development Opens in Southern China

At nearly 9 million square feet the complex includes shopping, four residential units and a digital art museum. The scale of developments using bamboo continues to expand and nowhere is that more evident than in China, where a new urban district has opened in Yibin, in the southern portion of the country in Sichuan Province. […]

These Are the World’s 9 Most Beautiful Bamboo Buildings

Architectural Digest searched the world for the most beautiful structures made of bamboo, many of which are in Asia.  Bamboo has been a building material staple for centuries, especially in Asia, but is often used in more pedestrian applications. Architectural Digest magazine decided there was more to bamboo than that and set out to find the […]

The Latest Hot Wood? How About Bamboo

Sometimes looked down upon by those in the trade, at least one expert sees bamboo potentially as important in building as concrete and steel. Bamboo may not get quite the respect in the building and construction industry as more widely used woods but its time may be coming. “Bamboo has a real part to play […]

A Mass Timber Twist: New Canadian Office Tower Features an Entire Bamboo Forest

High-rise structures using mass timber construction are becoming ever more common but a new 43-story tower in Vancouver puts a new spin on it with its own bamboo forest. As more and more builders are using mass timber materials to construct new buildings, a Canadian company using a Japanese architect has reversed the process, placing […]