Advancing Sustainability with Michigan’s Tallest Wood Building
Sidney Filippis, studio director and architect at Synecdoche, shares how the ambitious Ann Arbor-based firm is reducing embodied carbon with SouthTown, their latest tall timber project in Michigan, and why mass timber is a no-brainer.
Cultivating Calm: Weathered-Wood-Clad Barns Inspire a Minimalist Retreat
A weekend getaway in Westchester County by Worrell Yeung honors the simplicity of agrarian timber construction with a strikingly modern take on the archetypal wood-clad barn.
WoodWorks Innovation Network Spotlight
A Mass Timber Home for the Humanities
The structural design heritage of Trinity University’s campus in San Antonio, Texas, inspired Lake|Flato Architects’ use of mass timber for Dicke Hall, a 40,000-square-foot building featuring classrooms and common areas alongside biophilic design and a light carbon footprint. Take a video tour here.
The Mill, a light-frame mixed-use project on the site of a former lumber mill in Houston, will breathe new life into the city’s East End neighborhood with more than 340 residential units and 6,000 square feet of retail space.
A 10-story mass timber commercial office building featuring a unique honeycombed design takes flight in Vancouver, adding to the city’s growing list of mass timber projects.
This course discusses the growing number of tall wood buildings that have been completed around the world, examining how they can be safely, efficiently, and economically built using mass timber construction techniques.
This seminar provides an overview of the significant 2021 changes to the International Residential Code, explaining new code concepts and summarizing the application and impacts of these revisions.
How Wood and Biophilic Design Can Help Boost Equity in Real Estate Development
Anyeley Hallová launched her development firm, Adre, to focus on real estate projects that create wealth in historically Black communities and for other underrepresented groups. She shares how mass timber, good design, and truly listening to those who are marginalized can make projects more equitable and sustainable.
Making Waves: Mass Timber Tower Withstands Massive Quakes on World’s Largest Shake Table
The tallest building ever to be tested on a shake table at full scale demonstrates mass timber’s viability as a safe and effective, as well as sustainable, alternative to steel-and-concrete buildings in earthquake-prone regions.
