Oyster mushrooms and repurposed bamboo furniture scraps may be an unlikely combination for a tough building material, but engineers have used this curious mix to create a new biomimicry-inspired tile, ...

MycoTile grows mushroom roots to make affordable, eco-friendly panels. Fungi-based materials could help ease Nairobi’s housing shortage. Mycelium panels cost about one-third less than traditional ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A Kenyan company makes building panels from mushroom roots that cost two-thirds the price of traditional materials ...

Imagine a world where homes, clothing, and electronics are grown rather than manufactured. Mycelium, the root structure of ...

Among the many things we could do to reduce strain on the environment is find greener ways of constructing buildings. You see, cement production accounts for 8% of CO2 emissions worldwide – and a lot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Humans may one day be living in homes fit for gnomes. Mycelium, small strings that are part of a fungus, ...

As the construction industry moves toward more eco-friendly practices, this new plant-based, biodegradable material could be ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This one-bedroom, one-bathroom, single-storey house in rural Namibia looks conventional in many ways: brown rendered ...

Six years ago, when a fire broke out in a London high-rise and burned for 60 hours, killing dozens of people, the cladding on the outside walls was part of the problem. The panels, filled with a ...

The site of the former Phoenix Ironworks Steel Factory in West Oakland, Calif., has sat empty for 35 years even as a housing crisis has gripped the area and led to accidents such as the Ghost Ship ...