Shigeru Ban's timber-skeleton Tamedia building left engineers "incredulous"
Deezen
MARCH 17, 2023
Its prefabricated frame is made of 2,000 cubic metres of glued-laminated timber , held together entirely without screws or nails using a novel structural system developed by Japanese architect Ban in collaboration with Swiss engineer Hermann Blumer. People realised that a seven-storey timber office in the city is now allowed," he continued.
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