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Explore LEVER’s mass timber projects in our latest Studio Spotlight, get ready to embrace summer with tips on how to make the most of your outdoor space, and don’t miss our conversation with Brooklyn-based CO Adaptive about their vision for a low-carbon construction future.

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Studio Spotlight: LEVER Architecture Innovates with Timber

Get an inside look into LEVER Architecture, the Portland, Oregon-based firm named by Fast Company as one of the world’s most innovative companies for making eco-friendly mass timber projects a reality through cutting-edge testing and design.

Online Education

Design Strategies for a Healthy, Resilient, Climate Smart Future

From incorporating greenspace and lowering carbon footprints to building community and designing for greater affordability, in this course you’ll learn from design teams embracing these strategies and delivering solutions that begin to address some of the most urgent global issues of our times.

Wood at Home

Six Ways to Create an Outdoor Oasis

Get ready to embrace summertime with these tips on how to make the most of your outdoor space with clever space planning, a mix of natural materials, and all the comforts of inside, outside.

In the News

Tree Harvesting Provides Sustainable Building Materials While Cutting Wildfire Risks
The federal government plans to remove kindling from about 75 million acres of land in the next decade to help prevent wildfires—with the surplus of wood being turned into sustainable mass timber construction.
New York City’s First Mass Timber Condos Are Now for Sale
A first of its kind in the Big Apple, 670 Union, also known as the Timber House, showcases an exposed structure made out of glulam timber.
Cross-Laminated Timber Manufacturer Plans $50M in Upgrades
In the face of rising demands, Mercer Mass Timber upgrades include expanding a Washington-state facility, adding new equipment lines, and the addition of a new product line, glulam.
Tall Mass Timber Goes Cradle-to-Cradle
Viriginia’s eight-story Apex Plaza—the state's tallest highrise made from wood—demonstrates the growing importance and value of cradle-to-cradle, circular design.
The Newest High Rise Near You Just Might be Made of Wood
Wall Street Journal explores the growing popularity of mass timber construction across the country.
Bringing Nature Inside Is This Year’s Top Home Design Trend

From biophilic design to ample use of natural materials, such as wood, here are the top architectural trends bringing nature inside.
Prefabricated Homes Touted as Solution to Housing Crisis

Modular, prefabricated wood construction could play a vital role in ramping up supply of sustainable, affordable housing.

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In Conversation with CO Adaptive Architecture

CO Adaptive Architecture, have built a practice devoted to modularized and prefabricated mass timber assemblies, built to Passive House standards. Think Wood recently spoke with Mandl and Johnston about lessons learned on past projects and their vision for how low-carbon construction might evolve in the future.