Stacks of timber inform "inspirational" industrial units by dRMM
London studio dRMM has completed WorkStack, a top-heavy stack of industrial units in Greenwich that is constructed from cross-laminated timber. More
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Henning Larsen unveils design for world's largest timber logistics centre
Danish architecture studio Henning Larsen has revealed plans for a mass-timber logistics hub on Flevopolder island, the Netherlands, that will be the largest of its kind in the world. More
Bamboo canopy and CLT gathering space feature at Design Pavilion in New York
A "sacred space" made from CLT panels and a cloud canopy made from strips of woven bamboo are among the pavilions being shown at New York City's Design Pavilion event. More
Jesús Vassallo creates mass-timber pavilion for bird watchers in Houston
Architect Jesús Vassallo and a team of graduate students at Rice University have added a pavilion made of cross-laminated timber panels to the Houston campus. More
Toyo Ito completes "largest wooden building in Asia"
Japanese architect Toyo Ito has completed Gaia, a six-storey business school at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore that is built almost entirely from mass timber. More
Hemsworth Architecture wraps Canadian mass timber factory in cedar slats
Canadian studio Hemsworth Architecture has completed a mass timber factory wrapped in vertical cedar slats, nestled in British Colombia's Squamish Valley. More
Finnish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale "declares the death of the flushing toilet"
A Finnish huussi, or composting toilet, has been built in the centre of the country's pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which aims at critically exploring the world's unsustainable approach to sanitation. More
Ao-ft inserts mass-timber home into London terrace
Timber battens and mullions cover the facade of the cross-laminated-timber Spruce House in Walthamstow, London, which was completed in 2021 and is the first built project by local practice Ao-ft. More
OMA develops "wood plug and play system" for 30 Amsterdam schools
David Gianotten and Michael den Otter of Dutch studio OMA have designed a modular, mass-timber system that will be used to construct up to 30 schools in the Netherlands. More
Waechter Architecture completes "all-wood" building with steel jacket in Portland
Waechter Architecture has completed an "all-wood" commercial building in Portland, which it says is the first commercial building in Oregon to "use mass timber construction for all components of the building". More
World's tallest timber tower replaced by forest growth "in less than 25 minutes"
The final case study in our Timber Revolution series is Ascent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Korb + Associates Architects, which has been certified as the world's tallest mass-timber building. More
Appels Architekten prefabricates black house in rural Bavaria
Zurich studio Appels Architekten has created the Wooden House by the Lake, a home in southeast Germany with a cross-laminated timber structure and black-stained cladding. More
Voll Arkitekter's Mjøstårnet "helped wooden architecture reach new heights"
Next in our Timber Revolution series is a profile of Mjøstårnet, an 85.4-metre-high tower in Brumunddal, Norway, that was one of the world's first true timber skyscrapers. More
Dalston Works demonstrated that "timber is a viable alternative to concrete and steel at scale"
Up next in our Timber Revolution series is a look at the Dalston Works apartment complex in London by Waugh Thistleton Architects, which is the world's largest cross-laminated timber building. More
Lendlease's mass-timber tower was shipped from Austria to Australia
As we continue our Timber Revolution series, we look at Australia's first mass-timber high-rise apartment building, which was built from cross-laminated timber grown in Austria. More
"At first we were definitely making concrete buildings out of timber" says Andrew Waugh
Architects working with mass timber must stop emulating concrete buildings by focusing on height and form, and find a new way to measure success, says expert Andrew Waugh in an interview for our Timber Revolution series. More
BTZ laboratory at TU Graz was the early home of mass-timber research
Next in our Timber Revolution series, we profile a university laboratory by Austrian studio Nussmüller Architekten that was conceived as both an advert and a testing centre for the capabilities of mass timber. More
Murray Grove housing by Waugh Thistleton kickstarted "tall-timber movement"
The second case study in our Timber Revolution series is Murray Grove, a London housing tower by Waugh Thistleton that has a superstructure built almost entirely from cross-laminated timber. More
Fourteen homes where exposed cross-laminated timber creates cosy interiors
Our latest lookbook features cross-laminated timber interiors, including a colourful German vacation home and a tenement-style housing development in Edinburgh, and is part of Dezeen's Timber Revolution series. More
The Dezeen guide to mass timber in architecture
To help kick off our Timber Revolution series, we republish the Dezeen guide to engineered wood, which includes CLT, glulam and dowel-laminated timber. More