What if we could build high-quality buildings without relying on traditional materials like concrete and drywall? Better yet, what if these buildings are built with sustainable materials, with ...

Mass timber, an engineered wood product known for its strength and versatility, has emerged as a formidable alternative to traditional construction materials like concrete and steel. As concerns about ...

Toronto is a city of cranes and construction sites, so there’s nothing remarkable about the fact that a nine-storey housing project is being erected at the corner of Royal York Road and Drummond ...

A move towards a built environment that centers sustainability and embodied carbon is driving innovation within mass and hybrid timber construction. In this piece, Buro Happold considers the power and ...

Gilles Retsin and Stephan Markus Albrecht's Nuremberg Concert Hall proposal takes advantage of the project's location in the Bavaria region a Germany, an area known for its abundance of timber.

Situated just off the motorway and close to the German border, the imaginatively designed new ‘Holland Casino’ development is intended to revitalise the region around the Dutch city of Venlo. With its ...

New Architecture in Wood, by Marc Wilhelm Lennartz and Susanne Jacob-Freitag, translated by Philip Thrift, Birkhäuser Verlag, November 2015, 184 pages, $81.48. Solid Wood: Case Studies in Mass Timber ...

As the president and founder of SolTerra, I work to bring elements from nature into our built environment. It is my goal to demonstrate through designing, constructing and maintaining environmental ...

APAC holds over 39% of the global prefabricated buildings market. According to focus report store, the prefabricated buildings market is growing at a CAGR of 6.03% during 2024-2030. The global ...

Although initially conceived as a concrete structure, switching to timber as the primary building material proved to have a host of benefits. When San Mateo County set out to build a new office ...