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Mass Timber
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Viewpoints
How Construction Materials and Technologies Are Evolving
Follow METROPOLIS’s most compelling coverage of construction materials and technologies, from next-gen concrete to circular design.
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Forest to Frame: Why Portland’s Airport is a New Milestone for Mass Timber
Beneath a nine-acre prefab wood roof and dozens of skylights, PDX’s tree-lined terminal designed by ZGF Architects is a marvel of material sourcing and construction.
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Products
3 Top Questions Answered about Specifying Sustainable Wood in the U.S.
From forest management to carbon sequestration, here is why responsibly sourced and reclaimed wood is a powerful design material.
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Viewpoints
Put These Timber Architecture Books on Your Shelf
Four recent titles highlight the past and future of timber architecture, from forest to building products.
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Profiles
Waechter Architecture Has An Expanded Vision for Mass Timber
Through its applied research on all-mass-timber construction, Waechter Architecture designs with simplicity in mind.
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Projects
This Mass Timber Office Tower Was Assembled Like a Giant IKEA Set
Waechter Architecture’s mixed-use, mass-timber office in Portland, Oregon, was prefabricated in a factory in Austria, flat-packed, and set up on site.
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3 Mass-Timber Shops That Put the “Super” Back in Supermarket
Working with the latest mass timber technology, architects across Europe are redefining grocery stores to support community and sustainability goals.
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Profiles
Shigeru Ban Is Unimpressed by the Mass-Timber Boom
The Pritzker Prize–winning maestro of timber architecture, Shigeru Ban reflects on a career spent designing with wood and weighs in on contemporary mass timber buildings.
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Projects
This Berlin Office Was Germany’s Most Sustainable Building in 2022
Combining a hybrid timber-and-concrete construction system with a carbon-capturing facade and biophilic atrium, EDGE Suedkreuz sets a new standard for green architecture.
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In Germany, a Cradle-to-Cradle Firehouse Proves the Power of Mass Timber
Wulf Architekten designed the timber and concrete components of the Straubenhardt firehouse to be disassembled and reuse.
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Timber House is New York City’s Largest Mass Timber Building
Designed by Mesh Architectures, Timber House features a glulam and concrete structural system and is clad with custom-made brick.
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Projects
Speed and Sustainability: The Luisenblock Shows What’s Possible with Mass Timber and Prefabrication
The new office building for the German Parliament was erected in mere months using a building system based on prefabricated wooden units.
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Viewpoints
Five Projects Illustrate a Wood Building Renaissance in Berlin
In and around the German capital, timber-based projects are supplanting traditional concrete and stone construction as architects and their clients strive for cheaper, more sustainable buildings.
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Programs
Is Wood the Building Material of the Future?
A Think Tank Panel investigates mass timber’s potential impact on design, construction, and sustainability.
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Projects
Michael Green Architecture Designs a Mass-Timber Research Complex
The Oregon Forest Science Complex is a proving ground for mass timber’s sustainable, seismic, and even psychological benefits.
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Viewpoints
How Mass Timber Could Help Reduce Wildfire Risk
The burgeoning industry has the potential to drastically reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, but also help with wildfire mitigation.
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Projects
A New Restaurant in the U.K. Experiments with Cross-Laminated Timber
The Wildernesse Restaurant, designed by Morris + Company, plays with wood construction and typological precedents, all despite a small budget.
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Projects
Using CLT, Hacker Architects Helps Connect a Workplace to Its Surrounding Nature Preserve
The First Tech Federal Credit Union office—at five stories and 156,000 square feet—became America’s largest CLT-framed building by area when it opened this past summer.
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With Haus Gables, Architect Jennifer Bonner Celebrates and Critiques the American Single-Family House
Located in Atlanta, the two-story, two-bedroom house was assembled from 87 cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels that provide both structure and interior surfacing.
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Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Reveals What Its Toronto Smart City May Look Like
While questions surrounding data collection loom, the renderings hint at what the technology company hopes to achieve on the Toronto waterfront.