Used since the 19th century—typically as a rural, rustic building material—straw has been a DIY solution for affordable, earth-friendly construction. But a new wave of contemporary straw ...

The question is whether straw, a millennia-old building material, can scale up to meet 21st Century ambitions. In panel systems, relatively short pieces of straw are packed together at just the ...

For Tokyo-based artist ARKO, rice straw finds a contemporary application in elegant wall hangings. “I started thinking that ...

The Durra board, a unique solid building panel manufactured from densely compressed paddy straw using extreme pressure and heat in the manufacturing process, aims at reducing the time, effort and cost ...