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Re-imagining Construction: The Top 20 Tallest Mass Timber Buildings

Santa Cruz Architect

Photo by Voll Arkitekter + Rikardo Foto Mass timber construction has revolutionized the architectural landscape, offering a sustainable and innovative alternative to traditional building materials. Engineered wood products are used in a variety of applications, from home construction to commercial buildings to industrial products.

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Under Construction: Slabtown Savier (images)

Next Portland

I hope to return to more frequent updates to this site, although I cannot make any commitments. Construction is underway on Slabtown Savier, a two-building development in NW Portland’s emerging Slabtown neighborhood. The site was most recently used as surface parking. The Con-way Master Plan wass approved in 2012.

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A Butterfly Roof Tops an "Upside-Down" House Built for Aging in Place

Dwell

Its position on the site means it gets ample sunlight all through the year. The overhanging butterfly roof provides solar shading to south facing high level windows in summer. The house has been designed with passive house principles at its heart.

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Overtreders W constructs hotel cabin from locally sourced materials secured with straps

Deezen

The studio found the materials for the cabin in the village of Veenhuizen, sourcing concrete gutters and wood from carpenter Peter Kroes and roof tiles and paving slabs from Riedstra farm. At Dutch Design Week 2017, the studio collaborated with Bureau SLA and designed the People’s Pavilion with borrowed and reclaimed materials.

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Architectural Association students use foraged wood to build "open-air laboratory"

Deezen

The students constructed Field Station as part of the Architectural Association's Design + Make Programme, which also saw the construction of Sawmill Shelter in 2017. Each component was scanned and placed into a computer model before areas for each connection were cut using a robotic arm.

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Cool Schools: 7 Educational Structures Championing Affordable and Sustainable Construction

Architizer

Several communities worldwide don’t necessarily have the same access to new-age materials, construction techniques or the funds to actualize these grand visions. Given that the site is located in paddy fields in the mountains there, the structure is built using layers of walls to adapt to the topography. Baan Nhong Bua School.

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Bahrain weaving facility by Leopold Banchini Architects "celebrates local construction and craft traditions"

Deezen

This low-lying wooden structure organises the space and is positioned around palm trees that extend through openings in the factory's roof. The resulting building is a low and quiet gridded street elevation stretching the entire boundary of the site," the architects explained. Palm trees extend through the roof.