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- A net-zero mass-timber buildingDesigned by Generate Architecture and Technologies, a start-up company out of MIT and Harvard University, and design and construction company Placetailor, a five-storey building…
- A breathing Japanese tearoomF.A.D.S. + Fujiki Studio designed a temporary installation to use as a Japanese tearoom. The hut is made of CLT and plastic materials using…
- A tower made of self-shaping woodThe Institute for Computational Design and Construction and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design at the University of Stuttgart worked together to…
- The world’s tallest wooden towerOpened on 15 March, the Mjøstårnet, or the Mjøsa Tower in Brumunddal near Oslo, Norway, is with 85.4 metres currently the world’s tallest wooden…
- Some material highlights at the London Design Festival 2018During the London Design Festival, taking place from 15 to 23 September 2018, we take a look at some of the material highlights. Japanese…
- Reclaimed Doors Form Façade Of Timber Housing CooperativeDe Torteltuin is a 40-home housing cooperative on Centrumeiland in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, designed by Natrufied Architecture. The project combines a largely timber load-bearing…
- Limberlost Place Advances Tall Timber Construction in TorontoLimberlost Place is a ten-storey mass timber building on Toronto’s waterfront. Designed by Moriyama Teshima Architects and Acton Ostry Architects, the educational building aims…
- Valckensteyn Demonstrates the Potential of Mass Timber for Affordable HousingPowerhouse Company has completed Valckensteyn, Rotterdam's first mass timber residential building. The project delivers 82 affordable rental homes in the Pendrecht district. Commissioned by…
- Prewood: A Modular Timber System For Disassembly And ReuseIn dense urban environments where space is limited and construction is complex, the Prewood project by VUILD in Tokyo offers a new approach to…
- Katajanokan Laituri Integrates Large-Scale Timber Construction In A Waterfront ContextKatajanokan Laituri is an office and hotel building by Anttinen Oiva Architects, located on the former industrial waterfront of the Katajanokka peninsula in Helsinki.…
- Scaling Up Fibre-Based Bio-Materials for the Built EnvironmentAchieving carbon-neutral construction by 2050 will require a major shift in the materials architects and designers specify. While timber is currently the most familiar…
- SAWA: A Timber Landmark Showcasing Circular Urban LivingSAWA, the 50-metre timber residential building on Rotterdam’s Lloydpier, has won the 2025 National Timber Construction Award, just hours after the Dutch queen Máxima…
- X-LAMX-LAM is constructed from at least three layers of sawn timber glued together at right angles to each other. As a load-bearing panel or pane element, X-LAM has excellent structural and static properties. X-LAM is a solid, very load-bearing building material, and the prefabricated components are quick and easy to assemble on site. X-LAM is also known nationally as Brettsperrholz (BSP) and internationally as cross laminated timber (CLT).
- A tower made of self-shaped structural timberResearchers at the Institute of Computational Design and Construction at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, designed what they say is the first multi-level, walkable…
- Timber hybrid building Netherlands BREEAM OutstandingThe timber-hybrid residential tower HAUT on the Amstel in Amsterdam, the Netherlands has scored 'Outstanding' with 88% on the BREEAM-NL Delivery Certificate. The luxury…
- MaterialDistrict goes Floriade part 1The International Horticulture Exhibition Floriade is hosted every ten years and this year it is held in Almere, the Netherlands, until 9 October. While…
- Tomorrow’s Timber now available in Dutch as “De Houtbouw Revolutie”On Thursday 7 October, De Houtbouw Revolutie, Dutch edition of the book on timber construction Tomorrow's Timber, was officially launched. Fred Schoorl, Thijs Kroese,…
- A flat-packed urban villageSPACE10, IKEA’s global research and design lab, and Danish firm EFFEKT Architects developed the Urban Village Project, a vision for more liveable, affordable and…
- Today’s materials for tomorrow’s architecture!Insulation material made from Typha, communicating façades, printed roof tiles, walls made from fungi… During MaterialDistrict Rotterdam 2019 (12-14 March in Rotterdam Ahoy, the…
- Plant cell wall’s ‘glue’ may make wooden skyscrapers possibleBuilding wooden high-rise buildings is one of the trends in sustainable construction. While wood has been used in the construction of buildings for a…
- Woven Wood Roof Brings The Forest InsideUnder the shelter of this very unique timber roof, the Home-for-All Playhouse in Fukushima’s Soma City offers children and families affected by the region’s…
- Wooden skyscraperA Danish project is set to become the world’s tallest wooden skyscraper when construction is completed in 2023. So why build so high using…
- Travelling Pavilion Brings Biobased and Circular Building Materials TogetherBLOK, a travelling timber pavilion, brings together biobased materials, reused components and circular building systems in one structure. Presented at Dutch Design Week in…
- ‘Temple Of Trash’ Turns Waste Streams Into Circular ArchitectureA new office and visitor centre for waste-processing company Omrin demonstrates how biobased, reused and recycled materials can form the basis of a high-quality…
