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Posts Tagged ‘ Cross-laminated Timber ’
Leers Weinzapfel Associates: Advancing the Timber Typology at All Scales
Tom Chung and Ashley Rao highlight the tremendous potential for wood construction
Atlassian to build the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower for its new headquarters
Hybrid structure is significantly lower in embodied carbon and offers a substantial reduction in the building’s carbon footprint
C.F. Møller Architects complete Sweden’s tallest timber tower
Use of solid wood instead of concrete will save an estimated 550 tonnes of carbon dioxide over the building’s life
A triumph of biophilic, home-owner-centric architecture in Amsterdam
Freebooter harmonizes form and function across a meticulously crafted layout
Leers Weinzapfel Associates receives 2020 AIA COTE Top Ten Award
The largest, cross-laminated timber academic structure in the U.S. demonstrates emerging technologies of mass timber as a renewable construction resource with economic and aesthetic advantages
Jan Henrik Jansen and Marshall Blecher collaborate on one of the first private residences in Denmark made from CLT
Constructed entirely from cross-laminated timber, Villa Korup is an experimental steel clad villa in the Danish countryside
University of Stuttgart build the 14-meter-tall Urbach Tower from self-shaping wood
Engineers harness the natural shrinking process of wood to create the first self-twisted tower in Germany
Norway is home to the world’s tallest timber tower
Mjøstårnet represents a genuine milestone in its use of timber for construction and cladding
Uenoa covers Japanese building with three-dimensional cross-laminated timber roof
Dynamic frame of the large timber roof dictates both the exterior form of the building as well as the internal layout
Building for tomorrow
Architect Anthony Thistleton gives the lowdown on the carbon realities of timber, and explains why misconceptions around CLT on fire safety grounds need to be corrected
RIBA North, the Building Centre and dRMM celebrate the possibilities and significance of modern timber architecture
Forest of Fabrication presents 24 projects that have pushed design boundaries and explored the opportunities and challenges of timber structures
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