Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, known for his cardboard houses, has just installed his latest endeavor in the paper-building world—a temporary bridge over the Gardon River, in the south of France. The ...

A rocker designed by two Louisiana State U. students tied for second place in this year’s Chair Affair. (Chronicle photographs by Lawrence Biemiller) The winning designs went on display Thursday ...

So how does one go about fabricating a form with 16 million facets? Well, the first method you might think of is 3D printing, but according to Hansmeyer, his “computational architecture” is actually ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who designed Christchurch's "Cardboard Cathedral" in the wake of the city’s devastating 2011 earthquake, ...

Phoebe Washburn likes looking at construction sites. But while most people watch the workmen on the girders, she takes in signs of the process: stacks of wood, cinderblocks or iron beams; piles of ...

David and his wife, Im, made the coffee table when they were both studying architecture in college. "There was another class that made a large group model from corrugated cardboard," David recalls.

It's an enchanting sight. A thicket of enormous structures, towering 15 to 20 feet over visitors to the Northern Spark festival in Minneapolis, stands illuminated from below, each one a cross between ...

When people mistake photographs of your physical prototypes for computer renderings, you know you’ve achieved something amazing. That’s exactly what happened when Michael Hansmeyer showed off his ...