An ambitious new timber tower in Toronto, Canada, is due to begin construction soon. Thanks to its innovative prefabricated wooden design, the residential building named 230 Royal York is expected to ...
Most modern timber towers, like the 230 Royal York and Ascent, feature a concrete core for stability. However, the Fyrtornet office tower by Wingårdhs rises to an impressive height of 51.5 m (169 ft) ...
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The world’s tallest timber tower rising over Sydney is nearly twice as high as the previous record holder
Sydney’s newest skyscraper looks like another glass-and-steel tower. But behind its facade, wooden beams and panels climb more than 180 meters above the city — farther than timber has ever reached in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not so long ago, it was exceptionally rare to see timber buildings more than six stories tall. But new engineered wood ...
Working with Oregon State University (OSU), Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been busy testing its design for a timber tower. The time-lapse video below shows a section of the wood tower being ...
AN Midwest Editor Matthew Messner spoke with Daniel Safarik, editor for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), about its “Tall Timber: A Global Audit.” The audit documented proposed ...
One of the more memorable displays of old-style Chicago politics and boosterism that I ever witnessed was at a Streeterville community meeting circa 2007 in which outgoing 42nd Ward Ald. Burt Natarus ...
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