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Mass Timber
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Jeanne Gang on Harvard’s New Rubenstein Treehouse
The architect unpacks how material, structure, and openness converge in the university's first mass timber building.
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Inside and Outside Johns Hopkins’ New Bloomberg Student Center
Inside the New BIG and Rockwell’s Bloomberg Student Center At Johns Hopkins, a new student center reconnects the university to Baltimore and redefines how students gather, collaborate, and unwind.
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Viewpoints
Is Mass Timber the Future of America’s Skylines?
DLR Group’s Stephen Cavanaugh shares what 3 million square feet of mass-timber design reveal about how America will build next.
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Viewpoints
How Architecture Must Evolve to Embrace Timber-Based Design
Mass timber is poised to transform the built environment, but adopting it at scale requires more than just innovation in materials.
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Viewpoints
How Upstream Calculated the Carbon Footprint of Portland’s New Mass Timber Terminal
ZGF's Portland Airport expansion partnered with the University of Washington's Applied Research Consortium to pioneer a groundbreaking carbon calculator tool.
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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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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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Projects
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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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.