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Bamboo architecture: Bali's Green School inspires a global renaissance With the tensile strength of steel but six times lighter, bamboo can be used for ambitious buildings once it has been treated to ensure its durability. Courtesy of Green School Bali, Author provided Davina Jackson, University of Kent Bali’s Green School recently celebrated its first decade of educating toddlers through teenagers (and their digital nomad parents) about eco-ethical design and cooperative living. Set in a village near Ubud, this tropical jungle campus of quirky bamboo pavilions has become a globally influential exhibition of one of this century’s significant architectural trends. There...

Architecture in Limbo Aaron Betsky on how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the profession to an apparent standstill. Laurian Ghinitoiu OMA's Norra Tornen highrise in Stockholm It is a boring time for architecture. That is not necessarily a bad thing. New buildings that have been recently been announced or have just opened include the elegant (David Adjaye, Hon. FAIA’s proposed addition to the Princeton Art Museum or Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago), the head-scratching (OMA’s pixelated block tower in Stockholm, which somehow won this year’s Highrise Award), and the seemingly banal (Berlin’s long-awaited new...