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The American Hardwood Export Council's (AHEC) contribution to this year's London Design Festival is Vert, a timber structure designed by Diez Office with OMCºC as a cooling space for visitors and a means of increasing biodiversity in urban environments. Vert is installed at the Parade Ground...
Number of floors the proposed mass-timber Marcus Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will exceed the 25-story Ascent high-rise, also in Milwaukee, that is currently...
Holzer Kobler Architekturen designed the Erlebnis-Hus St. Peter-Ording, an adventure house in the seaside town of St. Peter-Ording, Germany. Architect Andrea Zickhardt tells us how the building picks up on the architecture of the local pile dwellings and what makes it a place for everyone.
Tall Timber: The Future of Cities in Wood opened at the Skyscraper Museum in Lower Manhattan in late February. World-Architects stopped by to see which projects are included in the exhibition, what they say about the current state of mass timber, and what they portend to the future of...
Rough number of clusters of fast-growing white willows that will graft together to form the Fab Tree Hab pavilion,...
COOKFOX Architects is designing the new Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music (BSACAM) at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, as a mass-timber structure covered in weathering steel.
Two weeks ago we featured the first mass timber condominium in New York City (Timber House), and this week we have another building in Brooklyn that boasts another first: the first single-family residence...
Although the benefits of buildings structured by timber are well-known by architects and others involved in design and construction, the rollout of mass timber buildings in urban areas like New York City has been slow, at best. So it was just last year that the first mass-timber condominium in...
Portland's Waechter Architecture has completed Mississippi, a three-story commercial building that serves, in part, as the firm's own headquarters and is billed as the Pacific Northwest’s first “all-wood” mixed-use mass timber project.
A report on the new Daigo Town Hall in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, by Katsuhiko Endo Architect and Associates: A public plaza for the town, the theme of this...
Is idealism economically sensible? Yes, says Katharina Lehmann. In an interview with Swiss-Architects editor Elias Baumgarten she talks about values, what it means to be a female boss, and why coercive measures are not enough to stop climate change.
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has revealed the eight shortlisted projects in the WAF Certified Timber Prize 2021, supported for the third consecutive year by the Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).
A new pavilion, made of laminated veneer lumber (LVL), acts as an architectural ambassador of Finland in Japan. The new Metsä Pavilion, designed by Helin & Co Architects from Helsinki, stands on the grounds of the Finnish Embassy in Tokyo's Roppongi district.
The second and expanded edition of Michael Green and Jim Taggart's Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction and Performance builds upon the successful first edition from 2017 to present more case studies of high-rise timber structures and argue for more of them to be built.
Height of the 40-story tower made with mass timber planned for Sydney, which would become the world’s tallest hybrid timber building: 180 meters (590...
French President Emanuel Macron is mandating that all new public buildings in France which are financed by the government must contain at least 50% wood or other organic materials starting in 2022.
Tokyo-based Sumitomo Forestry has unveiled a concept design for W350, a 350-meter-tall timber tower designed by a collaboration between Tsukuba Research Institute and Nikken Sekkei.
The aptly named Brock Commons Tallwood House – currently the world's tallest mass timber tower – opened on the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus in July 2017. The building, designed by Acton Ostry Architects, delivers on the promise of mass timber and aspires...
In her new book, The Inspired Lansdcape, landscape architect Susan Cohen explores the creative process of 21 leading international landscape architects. Here we present an excerpt from the book and highlight just a few of the projects found in its pages.