On Monday, as Milan Design Week was kicking off, architect Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli was giving me a tour of Gucci’s “Bamboo Encounters.” The hollow cane has been an enduring house code since 1947 ...

Jharcraft’s bamboo business is all set to get a dash of design. The state co-operative, which has already started weaving magic with bamboo by churning out a number of innovative products like ...

We’ve showcased numerous bamboo designs over the years, from furniture to entire buildings, but when it comes to combining green building and renewable materials, Ibuku’s incredible bent-bamboo ...

“A bird’s nest for a greedy pterodactyl” is how French architect Rudy Ricciotti describes a bamboo building he has designed in Paris. The $41 million project, dubbed T8 after its plot number, will ...

Would we believe in the statement ‘Some of the newest ideas are based on the oldest practices’? On the face of it we may not, but if we look at the way bamboo is making a grand return, most of us may ...

Rajeev Wind began by making wind chimes in the early 2000s. He grew up watching his grandmother weave bamboo baskets for a living.(Photographs courtesy Rajeev Wind) There’s something zen about ...