Posts Tagged ‘ Spruce ’

Heatherwick Studios complete first healthcare project in the UK

Maggie’s Leeds uses several ‘healthy’ materials and energy-saving techniques including a prefabricated and sustainably-sourced spruce timber system

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

Shigeru Ban completes one of the world’s largest timber structures for Swatch Headquarters

7,700 timber pieces forming the grid-shell roof of the building were engineered with a precision of 0.1 millimeters

Helsinki Central Library marks a new era of libraries in the world’s most literate nation

Oodi is a striking building with its glass and steel structures and wooden facade