Jul 30, 20265min
0Does CLT Always Sound Hollow? What New Listening Tests Found
A 2026 listening study turns simulated footsteps and jumps into design evidence for quieter cross-laminated timber floors.
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Jul 30, 20263min
0Small Cabins, Big Dreams – Why Timberframe Houses Under 100 m² Are Taking Over
Small cabins, lower costs, big comfort. Why compact timberframe houses are dominating 2025.
Jul 30, 20263min
0Oslo Adds Two Timber Storeys to a 150-Year-Old Building
Øvre Vollgate 11 combines a protected masonry structure with new glulam trusses and mass-timber floors, showing how lightweight prefabrication can unlock urban extensions.
Jul 30, 20263min
0Munich’s 27,500 m² Sun Office Moves Ahead as a Timber Hybrid
Glulam, CLT and timber-concrete ribbed slabs form the structural system of Sun, a large Munich workplace designed around renewable energy and flexible floorplates.
Jul 30, 20263min
0Italy Tests a Hybrid Timber System for Taller, Earthquake-Resilient Buildings
The HyWood4Buildings research project combines solid-sawn timber walls with a steel–timber lateral system, aiming to use local wood more efficiently in taller and reusable structures.
Jul 30, 20263min
0Shakespeare Gets a Curved Mass-Timber Stage in New York’s Hudson Valley
The 451-seat Scripps Theater Center opens beneath a bird-wing-inspired timber grid shell designed to frame both performance and landscape.
Jul 30, 20264min
0Romania Already Has Rules for CLT Buildings—What Designers Need to Know in 2026
Romania’s timber design regulation includes specific provisions for cross-laminated timber walls, openings and product documentation. The challenge in 2026 is turning those clauses into coordinated, verifiable project workflows.
Jul 30, 20263min
0London’s 4 Arbour Street Opens with a Hybrid CLT and Low-Carbon Concrete Structure
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.
Jul 29, 20263min
0Zurich’s Pink CLT Railway Yard Was Assembled in Just Five Months
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.
Jul 29, 20263min
0Finland’s Award-Winning Puusauna Lets Whole Trees Carry the Roof
Jaakko Torvinen’s island sauna combines hand-hewn logs, CLT, glulam and minimally processed tree trunks in a structural experiment with crooked wood.
Jul 29, 20263min
0Amsterdam’s The Ark Starts Building 125 Apartments With 3,264 m³ of Timber
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.
Jul 29, 20263min
0Under Armour’s Baltimore headquarters turns mass timber into workplace infrastructure
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.
Jul 28, 20262min
0Europe Backs Robot-Built Timber Housing with Digital Twins and AI
The EU-funded PTAH project will test robotic microfactories, digital twins and adaptive construction in a two-storey timber demonstrator.
Jul 28, 20262min
05G-TIMBER Connects AI, Digital Twins and Timber Factories
A European research programme has tested 5G networks, AI and digital twins across timber production and building assembly.
Jul 28, 20262min
0Can Timber Help Europe’s Housing Crisis? EU Projects Target the Skills Gap
Two EU LIFE projects are building the training, local supply chains and practical knowledge needed to use more wood in affordable and social housing.
Jul 28, 20262min
0Theodore Roosevelt’s Mass Timber Library Opens in the Badlands
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.
Jul 28, 20263min
0BuildSpec Brings Structure, Cost and Carbon into Concept Design
Mercer Mass Timber’s BuildSpec lets project teams test hybrid CLT and cold-formed-steel configurations early, producing preliminary quantities, costs and embodied-carbon estimates before detailed engineering.
Jul 28, 20263min
0Mass Timber Laboratory Meets Demanding Vibration-Control Requirements
Oregon State University’s 143,000-square-foot research complex uses mass plywood panels in floors engineered for sensitive equipment, extending mass timber into a building type normally associated with concrete.
Jul 28, 20263min
0TRÆ Pairs a Timber Tower with Reclaimed Aluminium and Wind-Turbine Blades
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.
Jul 28, 20261min
0Australia Tests Light Timber Frame Buildings Up to 15 Metres
The Future Framing Initiative is developing the evidence and standards needed to extend light timber framing into 4–5-storey apartments, schools and aged-care buildings, with a target pathway into the 2028 National Construction Code.
Jun 8, 20267min
02026: The Year Timber Construction Becomes Mainstream — Yes, Really
Timber construction is no longer just for cabins, eco-retreats, and people who own too many chisels. In 2026, wood is moving into cities, policies, insurance reports, factories, and serious construction pipelines. Here’s why timber may finally be crossing from niche to normal.
Dec 9, 20256min
1How I Started Building a House and Ended Up Building Software.
The story of how a gold-flake-water-drinking architect's useless napkin sketch drove a DIYer to build his own browser-based timber frame design software from scratch.
Dec 9, 20259min
0Expo Osaka 2025: How Sou Fujimoto Built the World’s Largest Wooden Structure
At Expo Osaka 2025, architect Sou Fujimoto unveiled the Grand Ring — a record-breaking 60-meter tall circular timber megastructure. Here’s how ancient Japanese joinery, digital design and mass timber engineering made it possible.
Dec 9, 20257min
0From Historic Restoration to Contemporary Vision: 5 Wooden Structures That Shape the Future
Five extraordinary wooden projects prove that timber can preserve history, protect ruins, empower communities, and build the future—without losing its soul. Sven and Olaf approve.
Nov 29, 20255min
0Traditional Joinery & Japanese/Scandinavian Influence – The Craft That Gives Soul to a Timberframe
Japanese precision, Scandinavian simplicity, and traditional craftsmanship — the magic inside every soulful timberframe structure.
Nov 29, 20253min
0Curved Beams & Organic Shapes – The Timberframe Revolution
Curved beams, fluid shapes, and organic timberframe design taking over 2025 architecture.
Nov 28, 20254min
0When Wood Meets Sunlight: Why Timber Frame + Solar Panels Is Becoming the Future of Sustainable Building
Timber frame construction combined with solar panels is rapidly becoming the global standard for sustainable architecture, blending natural materials with renewable energy.
Nov 12, 20256min
0Dark Timber & Open Living: 2025’s Hottest Timber Frame Design Trends for Modern Homes
Dark beams, open layouts, and smart details redefining modern timber frame living in 2025.
Nov 8, 20255min
0Beyond the Barn: Global Timber Frame Trends 2025
Global timber frame trends for 2025—Japan to Scandinavia, curves, modern rustic, gardens, and biophilic design.