ArchDaily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These temporary or semi-permanent structures, often featured in exhibitions, fairs, cultural events, and sports gatherings, provide a platform for exploring new materials and design concepts. In this endeavor, wood emerges as a key ally. Read more »

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Archinect

APRIL 12, 2024

Wood will be used as a primary building material throughout the structures, which are connected via canals, bridges, and new green areas.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

360 house is located atop a hill in the secluded back woods of Park City, Utah. Four structural volumes disrupt the concentric windows and separate the floor plan into flexible rooms defined by the roof geometry. 2800 SF round footprint is enveloped by a glazed skin to maximize the impressive mountain views.

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Deezen

MAY 3, 2024

Japanese studio Tono Mirai Architects has used soil and wood to create Toiletowa, a curving structure in Saitama prefecture containing a public toilet that reuses wastewater. The material covers the wooden frames of the two curving walls that enclose the public toilet, which is topped by a gently curving timber roof with skylights.

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Archinect

APRIL 19, 2024

MBB designed the expansion of an existing building for Grace Church School in New York City, adding a new top floor structure for a double-height gymnasium and athletic center. The new facility’s material palette of glass, wood, and steel structura.

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Archinect

APRIL 22, 2024

The overal goals of the project was to bring in openness and light, add a new extension and strengthening the relationship with the surrounding park—combining the old and new in a balanced spatial program and with refined use of sustainable materials. The extension is designed to be circular, demountable, and remountable.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Closely related to the makeup of materials organically found in nature, the color chorus of whites , grays, and earthy brown tones has played a pivotal role in artistic expression, fashion , interior design , and architecture for millenia.

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Archinect

MARCH 27, 2023

WoodWorks has announced the winners of the 2023 Wood Design Awards, an annual showcase of the industry’s most inspiring applications of mass timber and wood in building designs across the United States.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

© Alison Brooks Timber is a natural, renewable material, easy to fabricate, and with low-carbon emissions. As a construction material, however, when put under enough directional force along its grain, sawn timber is structurally unstable, so deemed unsuitable under higher loads. So what’s new?

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2024

The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas ( KU ) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. The Makers' KUbe is conceived as a showcase in timber tectonics, traditional joinery, robotic manufacturing and sustainable materials."

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Archinect

JUNE 1, 2023

The island site centers around the 6,426-square-foot Earth House, a village-like series of nine interconnected buildings clustered under a man-made hill, and the 947-square-foot Wood House, a standalone garden suite structure on the island’s eastern shoreline. View of Vollebak Island's Earth House. Rendering: MIR.

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ArchDaily

JULY 19, 2023

Image © Parham Taghioff Just as fashion designers use pins, needles and textiles to bring their creations to life, architects rely on materials to shape our built environment. What does the material specification process entail? It’s as simple, yet as complex as that. Where does one begin? Read more »

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Archinect

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Built for living, working, entertaining, and play, the diverse building program created the opportunity to weave a rich tapestry of form, materials, and details that reveal themselves at every corner. Anchored by the primary palette of Sapele wood and Jerusalem Limestone, the structure radiates warmth and elegance.

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Archinect

MAY 5, 2023

This approach allows the building to be scaled up or down according to future needs as certain parts of the structure and materials can be reshaped and reused. It is also primarily made of wood, allowing the.

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Archinect

JUNE 21, 2023

TenBerke’s rehabilitation of the 3,300-square-foot structure will feature a shared library space that houses many of Albee’s own books and records and renovated sleeping quarters that offer each artist in residence a bedroom and private bathroom. ” Existing barn. Image credit: TenBerke “These.

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Archinect

JUNE 22, 2023

Materials such as wood were used as much as possible, and harmful substances like glue, PU foam or sealant were minimized. In addition, the structure’s façades are made of weather-resistant Corten steel. The parking building’s detached set-up allows it to grow or shrink.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The design solution met this challenge through strategic placement of openings, blending raw materials with more refined finishes, and connecting the interior with the outdoors through daylighting and broad sight lines. Inside each home, the structure is exposed, with every connection revealed and celebrated.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2024

Students from London's Architectural Association have used timber battens and foraged waste wood to build a demountable forest pavilion called Field Station. 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.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2024

Named The Hotspot, the wooden structure is a short ferry ride from the Norwegian capital Oslo and is designed to be adaptable, environmentally conscious and low maintenance. Wood has also been used for the structure, with large timber modules forming its frame. This was chosen to help minimise the embodied carbon of the project.

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

Architecture studio A6A has converted a former model-making workshop in Bordeaux into a studio for itself that is defined by pared-back materials and spaces. This heavy steel door leads into L'Atelier's model workshop and material library – an open, flexible space with a sanded concrete floor and a long birch storage wall.

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Archinect

JANUARY 27, 2023

For the scheme’s design, Snøhetta chose a palette of what they describe as “honest and humble materials” to reflect Norwegian craft traditions. Flexible gallerie.

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Deezen

APRIL 10, 2024

Typo is an office chair by AMDL Circle for Mara Contrasting with the wood, the chair features a coloured metal structure with a distinctly lively silhouette. It is characterised by a twisting metal structure "By bending a square-section steel tube along the diagonal, the material deforms, curling and sharply creasing," said Mara.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A team led by artist Caroline Ghosn has unveiled the design of this year's Burning Man templ e, a structure combining elements of church architecture and Lebanese weaving techniques. Called Temple of Together , the structure will rise more than 70 feet (21 metres) above the desert landscape of the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada.

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Santa Cruz Architect

APRIL 13, 2024

OSB, with its appearance and composition resembling a collection of wood chips glued together, has faced criticism centered on its potential to fall apart. However, advancements in technology and manufacturing processes have reshaped perceptions of both materials.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

The University of Chicago John W Boyer Center was designed by Studio Gang in accordance with the French sustainability law requiring new public buildings to be built from at least 50 per cent wood or other natural materials. The centre will have a mass timber structure.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2024

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has created a pavilion from paper tubes, wood and milk crates to mark the 75th anniversary of US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House in Connecticut , USA. metres) structure was built within the site of Johnson 's historic house. foot by 13.5 meters by 4.1

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Santa Cruz Architect

MAY 4, 2024

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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Deezen

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Norwegian consulting agency Oslotre has completed HasleTre, an office building with a timber structure that was designed to be easily disassembled and reused in the future. Full-height windows open up the ground floor to the planting and patio surrounding the building, while large windows illuminate the upper storey offices.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

Wood has been used to construct the swooping form of this indoor swimming pool , created by Dutch studio VenhoevenCS and French studio Ateliers 2/3/4 for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It has a structure made predominantly from timber.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

Nestled beside the surrounding woodland, the cabin is wrapped by an external skin or 'monocoque' – similar to an eggshell – that draws on structural systems used within the aerospace and automotive industries. The structure draws aerospace and automative construction techniques Measuring 3.3-metres-wide, metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

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designboom

JANUARY 12, 2024

the reception area presents a modular construction, screwless system of furnishing and structuring with an ecological material palette. The post smarin’s reconfigurable cork and wood installation welcomes visitors at villa arson, france appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It has a timber structure According to Atelier WOA, this design acts as "an invitation to enter". Curtains are used to divide the interior Atelier WOA, which is an acronym for Wood Oriented Design, aims to demonstrate in all of its projects how architects can "build differently" with wood.

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Deezen

APRIL 15, 2024

A green-steel structure and walls of exposed blockwork and plywood feature inside this house and artist's studio in Paris by local practice Jean Benoît Vétillard Architecture. The ground floor is left raw, and the more intimate [upper] floors are treated in wood, a more noble material," said the studio's founder Jean Benoît Vétillard.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has created the Marga Klompé Building at Tilburg University, the Netherlands , is "the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood". Situated on a forested university campus in Tilburg , the cuboid building has a mass timber structure and facades clad in Portuguese stone.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Photo of Lamure-Sur-Azergues market taken by Georges Fessy Launched in January, The Stone Collective is a group of stone professionals "pioneering stone as the 21st-century's low carbon, load-bearing material". series and called on architects to embrace the material. Read: Why aren't more architects using stone as a building material?

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

Toronto studio Workshop Architecture Inc has created a prefabricated home in Ontario with an exposed structure and blue-painted element on the interior. The name Unfinished House refers to an aesthetic attitude, an approach to material reduction, and budget restraint that leaves parts of the design incomplete."

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2023

Mass timber will not become a mainstream building product because it uses too much wood, construction material expert Benjamin Kromoser claims in this interview for the Timber Revolution. "If But while mass timber can be used for taller buildings than conventional timber-frame construction, it uses much more wood.

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