Bamboo houses win RICS competition

CUBO – a project to build low-cost and environmentally friendly housing units – will now receive the GBP 50,000 prize (app. PLN 240,000) money to start work next year. Manila is one of the fastest growing cities in East Asia, with a population of 12 mln. An additional 2.5 mln ware expected to move into the city over the next three years to work on the government’s infrastructure programme, but already around 4 mln people live in abject slums. Earl has designed a new type of m