Archinect

JULY 14, 2022

A historic milestone in the use of mass timber as a construction material is about to be passed as Korb + Associates Architects ’ aptly-named Ascent tower is finally set to open tomorrow, July 15, in Milwaukee. Standing 25 stories and a total of 86.6 meters (or roughly 4 feet).

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Archinect

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Five projects were honored in Chicago recently as part of the 2023 Mass Timber Competition: Building to Net-Zero Carbon, hosted by the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) and USDA Forest Service (USDA). The competition’s organizers said each “exemplified new ways to design and construct mass timber buildings in the U.S.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In 2022, hardly a week passed on Archinect without the hottest construction material of the year making the news: Mass timber was everywhere — in novel conceptual proposals, competition-winning entries, experimental school projects, and, increasingly so, in completed, real-life, and often record-shattering buildings.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Australian architecture firm Elenberg Fraser is moving forward with a new $350 million AUD ($223 million USD) high-rise tower in Perth on the country's west coast that could set the record as the world’s tallest mass timber structure once completed.

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designboom

APRIL 22, 2024

the 'markers KUbe' will take shape with a mass-timber diagrid structure and draws from traditional japanese joinery techniques. The post bjarke ingels group takes to university of kansas with mass timber ‘makers KUbe’ appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

APRIL 28, 2023

Canadian construction company PCL Construction is celebrating a major milestone in the construction of George Brown College’s new Limberlost Place on Toronto ’s waterfront, with the installation of a mass timber pedestrian bridge. The building is expected to be completed by 2024 and will be open for classes in January 2025.

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Archinect

JANUARY 4, 2023

Intended as a “principal point of entry” to the UBC campus, the design of the six-story, 267,000-square-foot mass timber building seeks to balance sustainability, personal well-being, and Indigenous collaboration.

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Archinect

APRIL 6, 2023

Portland/Los Angeles-based LEVER Architecture has published a new report in collaboration with engineering firm Atelier Ten addressing what the authors call “common myths about mass timber construction.”

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Archinect

MAY 23, 2023

The completed mass timber design is now reportedly the largest of its kind in Asia, topping out at six stories and a total of 468,000 square feet. Toyo Ito has shared a video update at the conclusion of his firm’s monumental academic building project, titled "Gaia," for the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The project, which saw a three-story timber extension added atop an existing seven-story concrete building, is described by the design team as “the first commercial office building in Washington DC to feature a vertical extension constructed using mass timber.”

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Archinect

AUGUST 8, 2022

California building codes were updated in July to allow for the construction of mass timber buildings up to 18 stories tall. [.] There's been extensive testing for this application and taking mass timber into taller wood buildings [.] The building codes are very conservative in the U.S.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Situated on a forested university campus in Tilburg , the cuboid building has a mass timber structure and facades clad in Portuguese stone. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) floors were reinforced with beams to allow for large column-free spans in the 33-by-33-metre building. "In The photography is by Sebastian van Damme.

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Avontuura

JUNE 21, 2023

The post Waechter Architecture complete Mass Timber Workshop inspired by the classic industrial loft typology appeared first on Åvontuura. The Workshop is a new interpretation of the industrial loft typology and offers a balance of character, flexibility, and timelessness.

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The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 22, 2024

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has released its vision for a new mass timber building that will host the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design.

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Archinect

JULY 20, 2022

Mass timber projects continue to grow in popularity with architecture firms strengthening the application of the sustainable building material in residential and commercial sectors.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A new mass timber academic design for Bowdoin College from HGA has been unveiled for the first time following the project’s completion earlier this year in Brunswick, Maine.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Henning Larsen has revealed designs for a new mass timber logistics center project in Lelystad on Flevopolder Island, the Netherlands.

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Avontuura

JUNE 15, 2023

The post De Zwarte Hond complete Mass Timber Office with Circular Design and Flexibility in mind appeared first on Åvontuura. The ensemble consists of an office building, workshops, warehouses, test facilities, an educational- and parking buildingfor 700 employees.

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ArchDaily

MAY 21, 2023

As timber construction becomes increasingly popular, you have probably heard this phrase. However, we are not talking about traditional construction techniques using timber, but rather about this well-known material combined with cutting-edge technology. Mjøstårnet The Tower of Lake Mjøsa / Voll Arkitekter. Read more »

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The mass timber design will be realized as the firm’s first-ever completed work in Texas. Herzog & de Meuron has updated its plans for the forthcoming Sixth&Blanco mixed-use development in Austin, Texas. The plan calls for a full city block construction with a hotel, office spaces, a residential component, and retail.

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Avontuura

MARCH 4, 2024

The post Powerhouse Company announce completion of Marga Klompé Building: the first mass-timber academic building in Europe appeared first on Åvontuura. Marga Klompé Building, designed by Powerhouse Company, is the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

5 things developers should know about mass timber 0 qpurcell Thu, 02/15/2024 - 13:36 Mass Timber Gensler's Erik Barth, architect and regional design resilience leader, shares considerations for developers when looking at mass timber solutions. C and prevent a runaway, irreversible climate change scenario.

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Archinect

JULY 15, 2022

Around the same time the new world record holder for tall mass timber buildings — the 25-story Ascent tower — is making its much-awaited debut in Milwaukee , another North American design proposal has been revealed in Toronto that would surmount the historic milestone by a total of six stories if approved.

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Archinect

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has officially declared the recently-opened Ascent tower by Korb + Associates Architects the world’s tallest timber-concrete hybrid building. Previously holding the record of tallest concrete-timber hybrid building was the approximately 276-foot HoHo building in Vienna, Austria.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

Architecture studios BIG and A+ Architecture have revealed the design for the mass-timber Marengo Multimodal Transport Hub in Toulouse, France , which will be topped with a rose-coloured "foraine" brick roof. The post BIG and A+ Architecture set to design mass-timber transport hub in Toulouse appeared first on Dezeen.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MARCH 6, 2024

Mass timber projects from notable architecture firms such as LEVER Architecture, KPF, and Gensler are on view at The Skyscraper Museum as part of an exhibition Tall Timber: The Future The post The Skyscraper Museum stages an exhibition centering mass timber appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) in British Columbia has selected Canadian firms DIALOG and Group2 to design and the construction companies Clark Builders and Turner to build a six-story, CAD $73 million (USD $54 million) mass timber student housing building.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 3, 2024

Construction of Brock Commons. Image © KK Law. Courtesy of naturallywood.com For some, it may be terrifying to think that we inhabit a sphere orbiting the Sun, whose core has temperatures of up to 6,000°C and all human activities are located on the Earth's crust, the smallest layer in thickness, in the so-called tectonic plates.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 18, 2024

The spirit of mass timber is the ethos of Portland: There’s no better place for this conference than the City of Roses. For the eighth year in a row, the The post The International Mass Timber Conference promotes community through design, manufacturing, and a shared love of craft appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

DLR Group and real estate developer Hines have announced that they are planning to deliver their T3 (Timber, Transit, and Technology) office concept to Chicago. It will be the city’s first mass timber office building and, as noted in its press release, one of the first timber buildings since the Great Chicago Fire.

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Archinect

AUGUST 19, 2022

Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled designs for a mixed-use, mass timber development in Austin , Texas. When complete, it will be the firm’s first built project in Texas.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Nonprofit New York City Economic Development Corporation has launched New York City Mass Timber Studio, an assistance program for the development of mass-timber construction within New York City. Mass timber encompasses a variety of engineered wood that can be used as a structural building material.

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Archinect

MAY 2, 2023

Related on Archinect: Henning Larsen unveils new mass timber 'World of Volvo' center in Gothenburg The design incorporates computer-fabricated glulam beams and columns with locally-sourced CLT floor slabs.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Photo credit: Tim Griffith Now completed, the building becomes the first fully mass timber building on the University of Washington campus. On the exterior, timber is blended with masonry to both reflect the material palette of the surrounding campus, and “hint at the experience” inside.

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Avontuura

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Fabric Architecture The post BIV Punakaiki is a mass timber cabin set in a native forest in New Zealand appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The building will house galleries and a performance theatre A mass timber structure will be used for the project, some of which will be left exposed at the ceiling and in the supporting columns. The post CookFox Architects designs mass-timber Bruce Springsteen museum appeared first on Dezeen.

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