Architecture The Observer Strong, clean and versatile, engineered timber is the ‘new concrete’. With wooden skyscrapers in the offing, could it be the answer to the global housing crisis? Rowan Moore Sun 28 Jan 2018 08.00 GMT There is a miracle building material – one so environmentally friendly that it extracts carbon from the atmosphere rather than…

Project team Architecture: Coarchitecture Structure: Nordic Structures Mechanics: S.M.Consultants inc. Contractor: Therrien – Pomerleau S.E.N.C. Client: Tanguay Furnishings Suppliers of wood products Structure: Nordic Structures Wooden soffit: Prorez

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has teamed up with cross-laminated-timber expert Waugh Thistleton to design his first UK building – a five-storey house that will be built beside London’s River Thames. Southwark Council last week granted planning approval for the so-called “pagoda in the park”, which is proposed at Potters Fields, behind City Hall and a short distance away from Tower Bridge….

The Portland, Oregon, firm is recasting the humble material as an urbane powerhouse, one project at a time. Lever Architects Above : Thomas Robinson in Lever’s Portland Architects office. There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about building with wood, much of it infused with a certain back-to-the-land, eco-idealism. Not without reason: Wood…

XLam CLT walls, floors and stairs were readily available and fast to install — saving valuable time in this apartment project for Housing New Zealand. Set to be completed in February 2018, this new apartment building will soon add to Housing New Zealand’s transitional accommodation supply in Auckland. For the construction of the building, Alastair…

 Steel and concrete would be the classic choices for building a large new laboratory planned at Michigan State University. But experts in the university’s forestry department are asking, “Why not wood?” They’re not the only ones with that question as builders nationwide push to build high rises, college laboratories and other large buildings with a…

Natives and frequent fliers of Charlotte, North Carolina—home of Forest2Market’s global headquarters—will recognize “CLT” as the airport code for Charlotte-Douglas International Airport and a moniker that the city has adopted for itself. However, CLT also stands for cross-laminated timber, a type of mass timber engineered wood product first developed in the 1990s that is gaining prominence in…

  Move over concrete, cross-laminated timber (CLT) is shaping up to be the construction material of the future. Montreal wants to take the lead in the sustainable trend with Abora, a LEED Platinum-seeking mixed-use project that will also become the world’s largest residential project with a CLT solid wood structure when complete. Launched by developers LSR GesDev and Sotramont and designed by…

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