Contractor Pomerleau has started building a 14-storey mass timber and steel building at the University of Toronto. The 77m-high “Academic Wood Tower” near the intersection of Devonshire Place and Bloor…

Contrary to common belief, it’s a big oversimplification to say “material X is more sustainable than material Y”, our research suggests. It was conducted using a state-of-the-art, AI-powered conceptual design…

Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm has unveiled a dome-shaped auditorium made from precision-engineered cross-laminated timber (CLT). Just over 12m high, with a diameter of 21.6m, the…

Danish architect Henning Larsen in collaboration with Ramboll, Denc, and Pelecon has designed a mass timber logistics centre on the Dutch island of Flevopolder for Danish clothing retailer Bestseller. The…

Completed in May this year, the six-storey Gaia building at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University is Asia’s largest timber building.

A 50m-tall timber tower in Paris has been completed, complete with 77 residential units, a ground-floor art gallery and restaurant. The €18.5m Le Berlier building was designed by Franco-Australian architect…

A New York funding body has launched a project to encourage construction professionals in the city to make greater use of mass timber in their buildings. The New York City…

Danish architect Henning Larsen has won a competition for an 8,000 sq m campus at the University of the Faroe Islands. The building, which will be located in the capital,…

Work has finished on Toyo Ito & Associates’ “Gaia” project for the Nanyang Business School in Singapore. The zero-energy building, which is billed as Asia’s largest mass timber building, takes…

The drive to normalise wood as a primary building material in Europe continues with the start of a mass timber commercial building in Helsinki, Finland, developed by Finnish pension insurer,…