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Oksana Sch - Glass - Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall

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Oksana Sch - Glass - Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall

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To create a brilliant facade effect, the author of the project prompted the observation of the Northern lights.The appearance of the concert hall allows visitors to enjoy the symphonies of the music of the play of light, both from the outside and inside the building. Three-dimensional facade cells from glass have built-in led strip. With their help, on the facade of the building you can create entire composite colored patterns.

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My favourite material is concrete. I like the raw characteristics of it. It is an honest material, often unforgiving, that reflects the manner in which it was created. People often think concrete is a cold clinical material, but so many textures and patterns can be created with concrete. I love the flexibility and mouldability of concrete. The image is of Louis IKahn's Salk Institute.

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My favorite materials are wood and stone. The reason why I like these materials is that are natural and it melts so good in nature, it fits perfect

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my favourites materials are the concrete and the glass, because their contrasting nature made them more attractive to use them in many designs.

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I love the fact that tiles can be manipulated to a given design and different colours thereby matching to a given environment and also giving out a given desired expression. Tile is also a good material that reflects light to a given quantity or amount according to the clients desire, the colour and texture of the tile.
Name: Havugimana Masengesho Frank.

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I like this interior and the arrangement of glass to structure light that creates a space able to merge inside with outside; the world of the mind and of nature.

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My favourite material is concrete because it's very plastic and you can do a lot of things with that. You can project with concrete different buildings and realise functional architecture

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Cristo Obrero Church in Atlántida, Uruguay

The work is remarkable and one of Eladio Dieste (1917-2000), who was an uruguayan engineer and architect. He used bricks at his buildings in such poetic way.

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In Renzo Piano's Park of the Music in Rome I appreciate the integrazìtion between tradition and innovation where the materials used are those of the local tradition with laminated wood supporting structure and steel struts, Roman bricks handmade for the external covering of the vertica walls<, preoxidized lead for external shells; inside the concert halls have a cherry wood paneling.

Chiara Menato
Parco della Musica, Roma, Renzo Piano

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Stone is my favorite material (and as a uman stone the Concrete) because it is one of the first building materials and as such is able to give buildings and works the majesty and elegance that has characterized architecture for centuries. Today the Concrete allows to build beautiful works but only the glass can make them incredible and that is why, that as second material, I prefer glass, for sure. Thanks to it the light enters the building and gives shape to the space.

Luca Pinti
(Deutscher Pavillon, Barcelona, Mies van der Rohe)

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I choose the steel not because is my favourite material but because is the one that allows a big form’s and spatial freedom. Also it could be used to create light and removable structures.

Samuele D’Eramo

(In pic Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin - Mies van der Rohe)

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Every marble pattern is unique. In practical way, it serves for a long time, and looks the same even through ages

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Glass is an excellent material as far as light is concerned. Of course, one can deal with light without utilizing it: let's think to the "oculus" of Rome Pantheon. Glass, when combined with other materials - a good cooperation, not a dictatorship! - seems to be a very powerful tool for creating space and harmony. And an excellent balance between interior and exterior of the building as well. Mustafa Pasha Kiosk at Istanbul Topkapi Palace is a good example of what I mean. In this case, glass is combined mainly with wood. The final result is a light, luminous and very elegant construction.

Francesco Fioretto

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Concrete is durable, it withstands extreme temperature and its aesthetics can be adaptable to suit the eyes of its users. Concrete is constant, strong and efficient. It has functional and artistic components.

Hadi Beydoun

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Nash Christina
The house made totally with bamboo is amzing, the beautiful curves and the natuaral texture of it give me a fresh taste out of the concrete jungle. The light rays penetrate through the gaps between numerous bamboo chips, and give off a smell of sunshine blended with wood, it's so nice to be in a bamboo house!

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Sofia Basso
Sofia Basso
Glass is one of my favourite materials because it can be considered as a non-material. First of all, it builds space but sometimes we do not even perceive that. Secondly, it can show something's strengths and weaknesses giving an idea of the what stands at the base of a structure. In addition I would say that glass is one of those materials which creates a real harmony when it meets light.
Giovanni Luciani
Giovanni Luciani
Shigeru Ban and the wood....i do not need any other comments....(and i cannot upload more pictures from my laptop)

Tommaso Antiga
Tommaso Antiga
I think glass-block is an extremely original material, which has properties that no other architectural material has. Its connection and the games it makes with light are the most incredible properties of it.
Yvonne Cheal
Yvonne Cheal
Bamboo is a light material (in both weight and filtering of rays) that is sustainable. Can be used on small and massive scales.
Bamboo, if well handled, is an amazing building material.
Bamboo, if well handled, is an amazing building material.
Obviously it is a regrowing material source, and it grows incredibly fast. It is also very strong, as evidenced by the scaffolding used on high rise buildings in Asia. Last but not least, modern conservation methods make it durable.

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Lo Squero dell’Isola di San Giorgio
Sharon Wells

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The sense of warm given from wood is increased by glass, because it let the solar's rays enter in and wood with light is so peaceful, create a really relaxing environment besides keep the heat in the internal space.

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For real I can't say that my favorite material is brick, yet in the context in which I live I feel that it has acquired a fundamental importance for me. However, I am also of the idea that the material depends on the place where the architecture is placed (I don't think I would use the brick in China or in an eastern territory). Anyway I feel like proposing this image, because it sums up a very idea of architecture that I bring with me. That is to say that the material must be in harmony with the surroundings and at the same time must work in symbiosis with the light. This image does not belong to a famous architecture but reflects a beautiful aspect of design: to work also in the details in the surfaces, because they completely change both the appearance and the way of living the building itself.
However, here I speak of lining and rear-facing material, if I had to talk about structural material I would certainly not propose the brick.

I would like to point out that I also adore the use of  concrete. In particular, the use made of it by my beloved Tadao Ando.

Seoul apartment block, by OBBA

Giulia Flamigni

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The alternance of materials, the relief is also a way to play with the light on the architecture. I like the tradition of spaces between inside and outside, transitional spaces where the light is always very particular.

Ercolano, Casa dei cervi.

Delphine Mondon

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Wood is the best element you can have to build. It can be manipulated, it helps to create an ambient with light and a sense of warm. It helps the building to maintain a perfect harmony with the nature and the environment nearby.

Convention-breaking eco home in the Isle of Skye
Alan Dickson, March 2012

Alessandra Corrias

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severity vs. harmony

Tadao Ando, Konferenzpavillon, Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein, 1993.

Misia Bernasconi

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I think that in this work the combination of wood and cement gives their maximum expression, I am fascinated by these materials for the natural feeling they transmit and for their dinamicity and variety of use. The burning of wood manages to give this contrast of naturalness inside and artifice on the outside, in a space that evokes the sepirituality in the structure of the trunks and the play of light inside.

Peter Zumthor - Bruder Klaus Field Chapel

Francesca Foglia

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I choose wood because it's a continuous surprise, the oldest material from construction that man has ever employed. It has many features for which it is still a cutting edge materialand lends itself to different functions, technical performance and and multiple construction methods. It's a completely natural material and regenerable.
What more is there to say?

Pier Paolo Pediconi

Renzo Piano
Centro culturale Jean Marie Tjibaou

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I choose steel because it allows slinky and light shapes.

Pic.: Zaha Hadid Architects, MAXXI Museum, Rome.

Dario Di Bella

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Earth construction,
a bit 'for my vocation, a bit' for the constructions that I prefer to make, the materials that I prefer are natural ones, among all I prefer the earth.
The image that I have taken as reference is the Muyinga Library of the BCarchitectsandstudies realized in Burundi.
The earth costruction is the oldest building material, the most ecological and sustainable, requires little energy consumption and gives shapes, colors, textures different thanks to multiple construction techniques such as the pisé and adobe, plus the technical characteristics improve the indoor climate of buildings.

Andrea Leone

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I can't chose only one. The Earth gave us so many natural materials.
And the one architectural example that shows us the variaity of materials and that one I am in love with is the Barcelona Pavilion made by Mies van der Rohe.
How many natural materials, how many textures, how different it can by if we change the position or the angle of view even if the forms used by Mies are really simple.
And it's better to see, to touch and to feel it rather than to describe this architectural masterpiece.

Evgeniya Sarkisyan

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As Above So Below; As Within So Without'

The inside is the outside, glass as a mirror which reflects our need to be seen and our urgency of being seen.
Besides, the essence of this material is its ambiguity, seen and unseen at the same time, separating worlds while connecting them. The space becomes a liquid fow of geometric landscapes.

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Concrete and white marble.
It is possible to give dignity to simple materials and linear geometric shapes inhabited with a spiritual breath which, once again, is the result of light and shadow interplay.
This austere vision strongly contributes to a mysticism imbued with a sense of silence and peace as the building itself were a sort of 'out of time' and 'out of space' symbol, freed from emphasis and decoration, stating its own immortality.
National Assembly Dhaka by Louis Kahn

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I like steel because it can be so slender and support (say) glass in a structure such as Federation Square Melbourne
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You can find this concrete building and Art Nouveau masterpiece in Kyiv. This is the House with Chimeras (1901-1903) created as apartment building by Vladyslav Horodetskyi (1863-1930) and sculptured by Emilio Sala (1864-1920). Now the building is an official presidential residence, used for official and diplomatic ceremonies.

Posted by Vladyslav Kotserubskyi

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This is an artwork in the MAXXI museum in Rome. What you see is just a small part of the artwork. The work represents a wall of wood, together with the light, it became a fragile structure.

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I love the protective feeling of reinforced concrete block, and also the way that concrete may be molded creatively for detailing. 

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I love the protective feeling of reinforced concrete block, and also the way that concrete may be molded creatively for detailing. 

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Posted by E. Sylvia Simpson

Public domain photo from Wikimedia Commons.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CONCRETE_FENCE_-_Vogl_House,_State_Road_277,_Harrington,_Kent_County,_DE_HABS_DEL,1-HAR.V,2-21.tif

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Uno dei materiali di cui si è parlato e che mi attira è appunto la pietra. In questo allestimento mi ha colpito oltre che il significato dato dall'architetto al progetto, il paradosso che questo lastrone assume galleggiando sulla testa dei visitatori che attraversano lo spazio, un modo diverso di applicare il materiale caricandolo di un significato particolare.

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Alberto Campo Baeza. La pietra è gravità. ‹ Pibamarmi

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There are so many possible uses of recycled materials, limited only by ingenuity.  This pavilion, made of old kitchen sinks, designed and built by 2012 Architchten and Jeanne van Heeswijks, particularly caught my eye.
Vron McIntyre

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I've chosen this photo because of the light that shapes and gives depth.
I don't know much about materials but I enjoy these white lime covered house walls in South of Portugal, Alentejo. They help the light.
Filomena Limão

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I've always loved concrete as a building material ever since I can remember (I love brutalism) - especially when clear geometry is used in the design, and when it is combined with greenery - the grey of the concrete and the green of nature combine so well to create a spacious, natural, and beautiful structure.
Derwent Tower is my favourite example. This architect's impression is the best image I could find that fully incorporates the whole development. Unfortunately, this has since been demolished.

- Charlie Moses

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I love this use of circles in Mario's work. They give a great perspective of depth in the work and a scale of grandeur.

Tim Haigh

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I love marble, as it is so dynamic especially the way the light falls on it changes it's aspect depending on the angle and time of day. It give buildings character, especially the interior.

Tim Haigh

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The texture and the fact that sometimes it is not precise makes me feel like in a confortable place.

Pic: Maritime Youth House / PLOT = BIG + JDS

Gaudy Orejuela.

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I like Earth constructions made by Pisè tecnique (compressed) . It has been used in construction since prehistoric times.
It's my favorite one due to is a ductile material,  it is possible to play with shapes (using special formworks) it's possible to play with colors, it depend on different kind of soil, it's a natural material and is widely available.

In a pic : "NK’Mip Desert Cultural Centre " Osoyoos, BC V0H, Canada, 2006, designed by Dialog Architects.

Valentina M.

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Timber WaterfallDaiwa Ubiquitous Computing Research Building by Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

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Timber WaterfallDaiwa Ubiquitous Computing Research Building by Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

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Personally wood is my favorite material due to the way in which is mingles with nature, the natural green and oranges from its surroundings. In addition, the way in which the wood draws you in.
LM

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wood.. it creats incredible warmth
Eman Adel

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Harbourside Restaurant, Fort William, West Highlands, Scotland

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Harbourside Restaurant, Fort William, West Highlands, Scotland

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I photographed this soon after dawn, while travelling. It is an example of the influence of contemporary scandinavian style on Highland architecture. I was impressed by the bold contrasts of rectangular and triangular forms, colour contrast and the use of mixed materials (wood and rendered stone or blockwork) that are typical of the local vernacular style. It is built on a redundant pier and appears to incorporate and extend an earlier industrial building.
(John Pearson)

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Botanical Gardens in Zürich, Switzerland

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Botanical Gardens in Zürich, Switzerland

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My favourite material is glass: so versatile and full of light! Domes, mosaics and simple window panes are possible through this immaterial material.
Marina Montanaro

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Thomas Pinfold, Vietnam Pavilion, Pudong, China (2010)

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Thomas Pinfold, Vietnam Pavilion, Pudong, China (2010)

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My favourite material is bamboo due to its diverse properties and impressive ecological credentials. As a construction material, bamboo combines resilience, lightweightedness and malleability making it comparable with carbon fibre in terms of performance. As a plant, bamboo is extremely fast growing (needing as little as 3 years to reach maximum height compared to 120 years needed for oak trees) which not only absorbs more CO2 than most other plants but also generates 35% more oxygen than trees of the same size. The Vietnam Pavilion (below) constructed for Expo Shanghai 2010 by Vo Trong Nghia and Shunri Nishizawa reflects not only the beauty of bamboo but also its strength and malleability, demonstrating its ability to structure and support buildings on a scale previously thought of as out of reach.

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I really like recyclable materials, natural and after watching the video, I think the light will come in the first places of my favorite materials. The material I like the most is the wood. It can take extraordinarily soft or hard shapes depending on how it is worked both for large architectures and for small objects, it is fabulous. Even in the case of the Metropol Parasol of Seville (Jürgen Mayer) despite being built with thin sheets of wood, then two-dimensional, the form it takes is that of a series of three-dimensional clouds that rest on the ground.

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Muhammad Shafayet Hossain; Church of the Light by Tadao Ando

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Muhammad Shafayet Hossain; Church of the Light by Tadao Ando

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Concrete ! It's obviously the most beautiful creation of human kind. I am really astonished by watching the strength of concrete around me! And Architect Tadao Ando have made it more significant through architecture.

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Old, weathered, orange-red brick, which looks almost as good in dull weather as it does in sunshine. Mainly to be found in old buildings, such as this 19th century one in my photo, but I'd love to see it also used more as a reclaimed material in modern buildings.

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The building material I prefer is brick. In the image we can see a Carmassi project located in Pisa, where the brick is the protagonist. I think it's a versatile element that combines well with other materials, especially with glass. With bricks you can also create special textures that make the buildings's facades unique.

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My favorite material is glass. I think it is a great material to use since it allows the reflection of the outside to be reflected in the building. It allows light to pass through it and you can play with it because depending the day or the time the building could look different with the sun reflection.

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Glass would be my favorite material because it allow the natural light to enter in a building and it gives an impression of space and of connexion with the outside. I chose the Museum of Ara Pacis by Richard Meier : it is in the historic center of Roma, along the Tiber and it houses an antic altar dedicated to peace. I visited it in the end of the afternoon and enjoyed how the sunlight play inside and, when the night came, how the city seemed to be more distant. Thanks to the glass, I was both inside and outside, both in the present with this modern museum and in the past with th antic altar.

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I chose the " palazetto dello sport " of pier luigi nervi because I like it when the structure becomes architecture, they are not separated. the "ferro-cemento" patented by Nervi itself with the ribs and the light inside it , give us a sense of space and harmony that makes the work a true architecture.

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In this photo I propose '' Edificio per 48 abitazioni '' by Massimo and Gabriella Carmassi, last year I made a trip to Italy and a stop was Pisa, I was struck by the buildings of Carmassi for use that makes of the brick, I think it is a material that goes well with wood, glass, cement, it never fails and creates a sense of warmth that few materials can transmit to me.

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Jodie Pavan                          Messe Basel, New Hall, Switzerland

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Jodie Pavan                          Messe Basel, New Hall, Switzerland

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I love how architects (like Herzog&deMeuron) use aluminum to reflect the light through particular shapes and to give the idea of enlarging the space beneath.

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The use of glass in this structure adds another dimension to the building creating a mosaic of reflections and patterns.Rem Koolhaas architect

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Glass is one of my favourite materials because it can be considered as a non-material. First of all, it builds space but sometimes we do not even perceive that. Secondly, it can show something's strengths and weaknesses giving an idea of the what stands at the base of a structure. In addition I would say that glass is one of those materials which creates a real harmony when it meets light.

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Shigeru Ban and the wood....i do not need any other comments....(and i cannot upload more pictures from my laptop)

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I think glass-block is an extremely original material, which has properties that no other architectural material has. Its connection and the games it makes with light are the most incredible properties of it.

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Bamboo is a light material (in both weight and filtering of rays) that is sustainable. Can be used on small and massive scales.

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Bamboo, if well handled, is an amazing building material.

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Bamboo, if well handled, is an amazing building material.

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Obviously it is a regrowing material source, and it grows incredibly fast. It is also very strong, as evidenced by the scaffolding used on high rise buildings in Asia. Last but not least, modern conservation methods make it durable.