Slender timber columns frame the living spaces in Forest of Pillars, a block of two family homes in Fukushima, Japan, designed by local studio IGArchitects to reference the forest of thin trees at the ...

The Arbour, designed by Toronto's Moriyama & Teshima Architects and Acton Ostry Architects, is a groundbreaking timber tower with Fast + Epp collaborating as structural engineer. (Courtesy Moriyama & ...

Being the “tallest” was never the goal for the Ascent, a 284-foot-high timber-framed residential tower in Milwaukee, says Jason Korb, principal at Korb + Associates Architects, the building’s design ...

For residents of a Milwaukee tower to admire the wood holding it up, samples of the material first had to undergo a trial by fire. Literally. The U.S. Department of Agriculture burned the ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Commercial timber construction has been raised to new heights with the first-of-its-kind Structural Round Timber (SRT) building, the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire ...

Wood is having a moment in the world of architecture. Other cities, including Milwaukee and Minneapolis, are going all-in on an innovative type of wood whose boosters claim takes less energy to ...

A new kind of construction with a not-so-new material is taking off in the U.S. Mass timber can replace steel and concrete in large buildings and proponents say it's greener and faster to build with.

Like many false claims that there is promise in “green high-tech,” the mass timber craze is exciting until one realizes that gimmicks are designed to hide larger economic and policy problems that must ...

Think of Paris and more cream-coloured limestone than wood architecture comes to mind. But a new 50m-tall apartment building might just start a trend. Named 'Wood Up', it's one of the first wood ...

Set to open to the public on 14 April as part of Volvo's anniversary celebrations, World of Volvo contains flexible spaces to host events, talks, conferences and exhibitions that showcase the history ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. There are three subjects that I write about often on ...

There is a global race to build the tallest wooden skyscraper. The record was held by Mjostarnet, an 85-metre tower on the shore of Lake Mjosa in Norway, which hosts flats, a hotel and a swimming pool ...