PRESS & MEDIA

• Meet The Architects Tackling Social Inequities With Their Blueprints

• Meet our Businesses for Good

• Esta casa prefabricada con techos solares está pensada para resistir terremotos y tifones

• Architectural magazine ArchDaily named the best projects of 2022. Here's a look at the Building of the Year 2022 finalists and winners in the category "Нouses"

• Studio Brio constructs its first solar prototype for BillionBricks Homes in rural India—the world’s first carbon negative, self-financing home that empowers the homeowners

• The prefabricated house that saves on electricity and gas: generates up to 10 kW of solar energy

• This prefabricated house produces more energy than it consumes, what is its secret?

• Empresas desenvolvem casa modular sustentável de baixo custo que já tirou 125 famílias da rua

• L’ARCHITECTURE AU SERVICE DES SANS-ABRI

• BillionBricks Home, by Architecture Brio

• Learn about this prefabricated house that is capable of producing more energy than it consumes.

• En imágenes: esta casa modular y solar produce más energía de la que consume

• Good, nice and cheap: this prefab solar house produces more energy than it consumes, Business Insider, Jan 2022

• Sustainable and cheap: the prefab house that pays off in the end, Idealista Portugal, Jan 2022

• Le spese di casa sono tante ma con questa soluzione incredibile ed ecologica l’elettricità si ripaga da sola (Household expenses are many, but with this incredible and ecological solution, electricity pays for itself), Proiezioni di Borsa, Jan 2022

• These sustainably powered homes can raise families out of poverty, Optimist Daily, Jan 2022

• PLOVOUCÍ ŠKOLY I MĚSTA UPROSTŘED OCEÁNU. ARCHITEKTI ODPOVÍDAJÍ NA KLIMATICKOU ZMĚNU INOVATIVNÍMI STAVBAMI NA VODĚ

• Llega la casa prefabricada que produce más energía de la que consume (The prefabricated house that produces more energy than it consumes arrives), Idealista Spain, Jan 2022

• PowerHYDE, la primera casa solar diseñada para personas sin hogar que genera 4 veces más energía de la que consume (the first solar house designed for homeless people that generates 4 times more energy than it consumes), Ecoinventos, Jan 2022

• Inside The First BillionBricks powerHYDE Prototype- An Affordable Solar Home For the Rural Homeless in India, Livinspaces, Jan 2022

• PowerHYDE: Sustainable and Affordable Solar Homes, Bluprint, Jan 2022

• Casas solares para sem-tetos trazem solução para crise habitacional (Solar homes for the homeless bring solution to housing crisis), Ciclo Vivo, Jan 2022

• PowerHYDE, la casa prefabbricata che si ripaga con l’energia che produce (the prefabricated house that pays for itself with the energy it produces), FanPage IT, Jan 2022

• “PowerHYDE” บ้านโซล่าเซลล์คนจน ทางออกของผู้ยากไร้ (a solar cell home for the poor solution for the poor), TNN Thailand, Jan 2022

• La mini-casa sostenibile al 100% che costa appena 2.000 euro

• "PowerHYDE" บ้านโซล่าเซลล์คนจน ทางออกของผู้ยากไร้

• Questa mini-casa super costa pochissimo, ed è così sostenibile che alla fine ci guadagni (This super mini-house costs very little, and is so sustainable that in the end you make a profit), Esquire Italy, Jan 2022

• Affordable Solar Homes by BillionBricks PowerHYDE, Avatarenergia, Jan 2022

• Affordable solar homes – A solution for homeowner poverty & net-zero housing, Yanko Design, Jan 2022

• Affordable solar homes – a solution for homeowner poverty & net-zero housing!

• PowerHYDE Solar Prototype House For Community of 170 Homes, Neat Network, Mar 2022

• Affordable solar homes are lifting homeowners out of poverty, Inhabitat, Jan 2022

• A Carbon-Negative, Self-Financing, Scalable Housing Project: PowerHYDE, Nilüfer Karakoç, Dec 2021

• PowerHYDE / billionBricks Homes / billionBricks + Architecture BRIO, Archdaily, Nov 2021

• PowerHYDE / billionBricks Homes / billionBricks + Architecture BRIO

• GROUND-BREAKING NEW PARTNERSHIP: BILLIONBRICKS

• A dialogue with architecture BRIO: “never design poorly for the poor”, Designboom, Oct 2021

• President's Design Award 2020 honours designers for outstanding local and global works, Straits Times, July 2021

• Design of the Year 2020

• The Singapore company tackling homelessness by building solar homes, CNA Luxury, Nov 2020

• “Social architecture, elitism in Singapore and why we’re designing for the poor”, Robb Report, Nov 2020

• “When is solar tech more than an energy play? When it’s also helping tackle homelessness.”, Tech for Impact, Oct 2020

• Soul of Business: “Everyone should have a home”, Money FM, Aug 2020

• It Changed My Life: Anurag Srivastava, Straits Times, Aug 2020

• Interview with Prasoon Kumar, FuturArc, Jun 2020

• Publication - billionBricks: Homes for the Homeless (Cheah and Parwez), Ivey Publishing, Feb 2020

• Modern ark: designs for the new climate reality – in pictures, The Guardian, Feb 2020

• Prasoon Kumar, CEO and Co-founder, BillionBricks The Business Times, Aug 2019

• Doing Good: Housing the homeless, helping the needy, The Edge Malaysia, Jul 2019

• Una ‘Ilar’ de 50 euros per salvar persones sense sostre (A 'home' of 50 euros to save people without a roof), ara.cat, Jun 2019

• ¿Qué tienen en común el pulmón verde de Fuzhou y el encendedor Clipper?, El País, Barcelona, Jun 2019

• Singapore non-profit’s low cost Malaysian school design transforms education for migrant children, Post Magazine, Mar 2019

• This Sabah School Was Just Given an International Award for Sustainable Design, World of Buzz, Mar 2019

• Prasoon Kumar – Billion Bricks

• A non-profit ‘innovation studio’ aims to eliminate homelessness in the world

• Affordable Housing Is Not Cheap Housing: A Lesson For Entrepreneurs

• Prasoon Kumar wants to eliminate homelessness in the world, “one brick at a time”.

• Singularity University and the Shelter Global Grand Challenge

• BDW Summit 2019': ideas desde el diseño para conseguir un mayor bienestar social (english: 'BDW Summit 2019': ideas from design to achieve greater social welfare)

• Representing India for a greater cause: Indian Women's Association Bazaar

• A School Built for Sabah's Stateless Children Has Won an Aware for Sustainable Design

• Singapore non-profit’s low-cost Malaysian school design transforms education for migrant children

• Innovations that are Helping the Homeless

• Etania Green School / billionBricks

2018

• architecture brio + billionBricks build elevated school in Malaysia for marginalised children, designboom, Dec 2018

• Nine Aspects to Consider When Branding a Nonprofit, Forbes, Aug 2018

• $400 tents for the homeless, The Straits Times, Jul 2018

• Replacing roads with bed: home for homeless, Democracy Live News, Jul 2018

• Brick by Brick, Singapore Tatler, May 2018

• It Changed My Life: Architect builds on housing the homeless, The Straits Times, Mar 2018

2017

• 12 Companies That Are Making the World a Better Place, Singularity Hub, Aug 2017

• Come rain or shine - a tent of their own, The Straits Times, Singapore, Jun 2017

• Self-financing modular homes for the rural poor, Design Indaba, Jun 2017

• Reversible weatherHYDE tent saves lives in extreme weather, Inhabitat, Jun 2017

• powerHYDE dwellings by billionBricks seek to house India's rural homeless population, Design Boom, Jun 2017

• A smart tent that’s housing the homeless in India, The Irish Times, Ireland, Jun 2017

• The miraculous tent offering shelter to refugees, Azer News, Azerbaijan, Jun 2017

• A roof over your head in 15 minutes, The Hindu, India, Jun 2017

• The miraculous tent offering shelter to refugees, Khaosod English, Thailand, Jun 2017

• Energieopwekkende huizen voor Indiase daklozen, Netherlands, Jun 2017

• El Watan, Algeria, Jun 2017

• Tribune de Geneve, Switzerland, Jun 2017

• France Inter, France, Jun 2017

• Le Soir, Belgium, Jun 2017

• L’Economiste, Morocco, Jun 2017

• Daily Star PH, Philippines, Jun 2017

• Cities of Future, Germany, Jun 2017

• Design Boom, Mexico, Jun 2017

• ArchitectenWeb, Holland, Jun 2017

• Playground Magazine, Spain, Apr 2017

• Finding Singapore Episode 1: India Channel News Asia, Singapore, Feb 2017

• 8 brilliant innovations helping homeless populations around the world, Mashable, USA, Jan 2017

2016

• Press Reader, Thailand, Nov 2016

• New Life in Phnom Penh: Slum dwellers find a real community, Nikkei Asian Review, Nov 2016

• New Atlas, Oct 2016

• Huffington Post India, Aug 2016

• Insulated Tents Could Protect the Homeless From the Elements, Mental Floss, Aug 2016

• These Temporary Homeless Shelters Reverse To Stay Warm Or Keep Cool, Fast Company, USA, Jul 2016

• Extreme-weather tents for the homeless could help save millions of lives, Mashable Asia, Singapore, Jul 2017

• NowThis New Huff Post USA, Jul 2016

• The China Post, Taiwan, May 2016

• Architects designing for social improvement, Design Indaba, South Africa, Apr 2016

• Forgotten Konchur village gets a helping hand, The Hindu, Feb 2016

2015

• Local Heroes, NOW! Singapore, Indonesia, Aug 2015

• Mantri S.E.V.A and Billion Bricks Deliver Housing Facilities to Quake Survivors in Nepal, Pocket News, Jun 2015

• Kumar Prasoon, Founder of billionBRICKS, The Asian Entrepreneur, Singapore, Jun 2015

• Lost and Founded Series - Prasoon Kumar, DBS Business Class, Singapore, May 2015

2014

• More than bricks for the homeless, The Straits Times, Sep 2014

• L'Orient le Jour, France, Sep 2014

• No Perfect Clouds, Indonesia, 2014