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Red brick buildings wrap around an elevated piazza at this education centre in Rwanda by German office Dominikus Stark Architekten.

Completed in 2006 in Ireland. A repeat client from New York approached LOCAL to turn an old stone barn on his wife’s family farm compound in Ireland into a painter’s studio and...

Strips of glazing wrap the walls and roof of a timber waterside summerhouse in Aure, Norway. Designed by architects TYIN Tegnestue, the building is made of materials that were salvaged from a dilapidated boathouse on the site, plus new grey-patinated pine. Flaps in the facade lift upwards to open the interior onto a deck. Interior walls are lined

Cedar shingles and slats cover the gables of this village hall and scout hut, which sit behind a concrete wall on the edge of Copenhagen's Søndermarken park

Sustainable rammed earth house by Polifactory that generates energy from a rooftop lake.

Takeshi Hayatsu and Kristin Trommler of London studio 6a Architects collaborated with students at Cardiff University to build a timber-framed tea house with wattle and daub panels. The teahouse measures two by two metres, the size of two tatami mats, and was constructed with simple techniques and locally sourced materials. The students coppiced hazel wands from the

Thatched bamboo dome at the centre of a lake in Vietnam by Vo Trong Nghia.

Thatched visitor centre by architects Wingårdhs for Sweden's Lake Tåkern, the annual nesting habitat for over a hundred species of bird.

Completed in 2008 in Mexico. Images by Rafael Carrillo, Luis Gordoa , Sandra Pereznieto . The School of Visual Arts of Oaxaca was developed at the request of the artist Francisco Toledo, in collaboration with the Universidad Autonoma...

Waterside cafe at the Kontum Indochine Hotel in Vietnam designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects and filled with conical bamboo columns.

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Completed in 2006 in Villanueva, Colombia. Introduction If sustainable buildings can be understood as the resourceful result from the use of local materials, local workforce, economical...

Students from the Bergen School of Architecture in Norway have built a school building in a Mozambique village using sand bags, bottles and grass. The building consists of an enclosed room for computers and a more flexible space with grass doors for English lessons, divided by a large sliding door. A reinforced-concrete frame was filled

Image 2 of 14 from gallery of Why I Created a Database to Document African Vernacular Architecture. Photograph by Larsen Payá

Completed in 2010 in . All year round most villagers go to the towns and cities to earn for their living. The rest stay home and continue to grow rice very hard. The...

Completed in 2010 in Kigali, Rwanda. Images by Iwan Baan. Background In 2007, UK charity A Partner In Education (APIE), as part of its mission to boost education in Africa, committed to building a new...