Pure-wood buildings such as Port Plus, whose pillars, beams and other components are all made of lumber, are increasingly finding a market in Japan. Leading general contractors and homebuilders ...

What to know about wooden high-rises and ‘mass timber’ buildings The sustainability of mass timber will be determined in part by which forests supply this new demand. Wood buildings should be ...

The material, called Moen-Wood, makes it possible to erect large buildings made of timber. Takenaka Corp., the Osaka-based developer of the new construction material, successfully built a wood ...

With projects like Portland's airport extension and the world's tallest wooden tower, modern timber architecture is poised to ...

Building with wood instead of concrete and steel in 80% of new buildings would, according to a 2020 study by Aalto University and the Finnish Environment Institute, help offset half of Europe’s ...

Owen Hatherley – author of a new book on Britain’s modern buildings – is an architectural journalist with an agenda. Throughout a series of memoirs and travelogues spanning the UK and Europe, ...

The meeting was organized as part of the Salk Institute Conservation Project, part of the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative. How to Cite this Work Lardinois, Sara, and Laura Matarese. 2019.

This collection of ten case studies addresses the issues surrounding the improvement of energy consumption and thermal comfort in modern buildings built between 1928 and 1969 and offers valuable ...

At first glance, Ana Francisco Sutherland’s Modern Buildings: Blackheath and Greenwich might seem to be very tightly focused. The monograph, looking at the post-war architecture of a single south ...