St. Louis' turn-of-the-century brick buildings are full of massive beams from old-growth forests. Kyle Howerton, a principal with St. Louis-based developer AHM Group, is working on a new high rise ...
What if we could build high-quality buildings without relying on traditional materials like concrete and drywall? Better yet, what if these buildings are built with sustainable materials, with ...
Detroit — In an exhibit featuring the durability and sustainability of using timber to construct large buildings, it is, naturally, the pyrotechnics that cause the most surprise. It's just a video — ...
Achim Menges uses computer-guided techniques designed to make buildings more sustainable and affordable. Humanity has long sought to tame wood into something more predictable. Sawmills manufacture ...
Three years after constructing a 30,000-square-foot building from mass timber, College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor has opened its second such structure, a 12,000-square-foot residence hall. The ...
Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Replacing products like concrete and steel with mass timber could reduce global CO2 emissions by 14-31% Ability to ...
A key aspect of such a project for Herdeg is the materials, which needed to be “authentic, real, and natural,” he says. Toward that end, behind its darkly tinted glass exterior, the six-story, 116,000 ...
With some of the strictest building codes in the nation, New York City is in many ways not the test bed for architectural experimentation one might expect. Here, an architect’s creativity is often ...
The five-story building at 1265 Borregas Ave. is made almost exclusively of mass timber. Designed by Michael Green Architecture, the structure took 14 weeks to assemble after the foundation was poured ...
Plans by Chicago developers to break ground on wood-based residential towers and office complexes have stalled, delaying what could have been a new era for the city’s architecture. Advocates and ...