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…
Chilean studio Apio Arquitectos has used wooden barns as a reference for this nature retreat, with pitched roofs and facades wrapped in grey metal and pine. The House in Lake Calafquen is located in southern Chile‘s Los Ríos Region. Dotted with lakes, the rural area features low ridges, where “elements appear like isolated modules in a continuous…
Metsä Wood launched The Open Source Wood initiative to accelerate innovation in wood construction industry. We are calling on architects and engineers to share their knowledge about prefabricated wood elements to grow the use of wood in construction. The first ever Open Source Wood Hackathon was organised in Nantes, France in December. The Challenge was to create…
Project details Architect Planitech Consulting Group – Alain voyer, Richard Gaudreault and Stéphane V. Lapointe Architects Structural Engineers Gemel inc. General contractor Ger-ro construction inc. Public / private project Private Year of construction 2013 Type of building Commercial building Building area 2,650 m² Number of floors 1 Structural products Main structure (carrier) Glue-laminated wood…
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…
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…