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Vancouver’s ten-storey timber office uses perimeter glulam braces and self-centering connections to manage earthquake forces without a conventional concrete core.
A new side-by-side study tests first cost, schedule, finance and embodied carbon for a proposed 12-storey rental building.
A California civic office earned LEED Platinum in May 2026. Its timber comparison is strongest when schedule, embodied carbon and operational energy stay separate.
Small cabins, lower costs, big comfort. Why compact timberframe houses are dominating 2025.
Øvre Vollgate 11 combines a protected masonry structure with new glulam trusses and mass-timber floors, showing how lightweight prefabrication can unlock urban extensions.
Glulam, CLT and timber-concrete ribbed slabs form the structural system of Sun, a large Munich workplace designed around renewable energy and flexible floorplates.
The 2026 Winter Games village in Predazzo combines new timber and steel accommodation with renovated historic buildings, then returns the permanent campus to the Guardia di Finanza after the athletes leave.
The 451-seat Scripps Theater Center opens beneath a bird-wing-inspired timber grid shell designed to frame both performance and landscape.
The first office building at Brent Cross Town is now open. Its structure combines cross-laminated timber slabs with precast concrete beams and columns, offering a practical case study in hybrid material design.
Sydney’s 39-storey Atlassian Central reached full structural height on 22 July 2026. At more than 180 metres, the timber–steel–concrete tower tests whether prefabricated “habitats” can scale inside a global office landmark.
Remise Rosa turns an abandoned rail site into a 2,500-square-metre social destination using CNC-cut timber, bridges, terraces and an unapologetically pink finish.
Jaakko Torvinen’s island sauna combines hand-hewn logs, CLT, glulam and minimally processed tree trunks in a structural experiment with crooked wood.
Seven timber residential levels, exposed wood interiors and more than 3,200 cubic metres of CLT and glulam make The Ark a major urban housing test.
De Wilde Tuin uses a CLT core, timber frame and prefabricated façades to place affordable housing and a rain garden on a former petrol-station site.
A March 2026 supplier update provides a fresh look at the 280,000 ft² Baltimore campus, where visible CLT and glulam sit alongside geothermal wells, solar power and off-site coordination.
Snøhetta’s Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opens on 4 July 2026 with a mass-timber and steel structure, rammed earth walls and a planted roof.
The 20-level, 78-metre TRÆ building in Aarhus combines a timber-led hybrid structure with reused façade materials and turbine-blade sunshades, offering a pragmatic model for circular high-rise construction.
A fast, funny, builder-grade recap of the best (and strangest) timber framing innovations revealed at WMS 2025—from contactless blade safety to on-bed CNC labeling and modular beam saws that scale with your shop.
A data-driven breakdown of how much carbon mass timber truly saves compared to steel and concrete, backed by real LCAs from award-winning buildings.
From NBA training centers to university labs and iconic arenas, Think Wood’s Top 10 Timber Projects of 2024 reveal how mass timber has become the gold standard for sustainable, high-performance architecture.
Once used for small cabins and barns, timber now supports massive stadiums, skyscrapers, and research centers. This is the story of how wood became one of the most advanced structural materials on Earth.
Archaeologists discovered a notched wooden structure dated to 476,000 years ago — proving early hominins built the earliest known timber framing long before Homo sapiens existed.