Barrault Pressacco uses hempcrete to create social housing in Paris

Architecture firm Barrault Pressacco used bio-based materials including wood and hempcrete to construct this mixed-use building that references traditional Parisian apartment blocks. Located on the Rue Marx Dormoy in Paris’s 18th arrondissement, the building contains 15 units for social housing along with two shops at ground floor level. Top: each floor contains three apartments. Above: …

Commenter says 3D-printed bridge “looks like it was randomly plopped onto the site”

In this week’s comments update, readers are debating a 3D-printed pedestrian bridge that has opened in Amsterdam. Joris Laarman designed the 12-metre 3D-printed bridge that has opened in Amsterdam six years after the project was first launched. The bridge was fabricated from stainless steel rods by six-axis robotic arms equipped with welding gear and spans …