Shigeru Ban proposes trio of pyramids for Kentucky Owl whiskey distillery
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is overhauling a quarry in Kentucky into a campus built from mass timber, for a local whiskey distillery. More
-
Atelier Pierre Thibault completes shed-like guesthouse in Quebec gardens
Matching wooden walls, floors and furnishings blend together inside this pair of gabled buildings, designed by Canadian studio Atelier Pierre Thibault to offer communal accommodation for visitors to a Quebec nature reserve. More
Red Hill Farm House is a modern twist on vernacular agricultural architecture
This low-lying house on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne, designed by Australian practices Carr and Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, features blackened-timber facades that reference local farmhouses. More
Students build giant speaker and human-scale bird's nest in Studio in the Woods workshops
This movie by photographer Jim Stephenson offers a look behind the scenes at this year's Studio in the Woods, an annual architecture workshop that invites students to design and build wooden structures in a forest. More
Waugh Thistleton installs modular three-storey maze in V&A's Sackler Courtyard
A nine-metre-high maze built from cross-laminated timber is on show at the V&A during London Design Festival, to demonstrate the potential of carbon-neutral buildings. More
Anders Berensson Architects proposes "wooden skyscraper city" for Stockholm
Anders Berensson Architects has unveiled plans for a conceptual housing development on Stockholm's waterfront containing 31 cross-laminated timber towers. More
Kieran Donnellan works with students to build tiny clifftop chapel in Lebanon
Irish architect Kieran Donnellan and a team of students have built a non-denominational chapel on a clifftop near the 12th-century Byblos Castle in Lebanon. More
Architect denies plagiarising Kengo Kuma for Bangkok airport terminal design
Duangrit Bunnag has defended his competition-winning design for a new airport terminal in Bangkok, which detractors claim copies Kengo Kuma's work. More
Katsutoshi Sasaki's minimalist home contrasts a dark exterior with a light interior
Japanese architect Katsutoshi Sasaki has built himself a new family home, featuring a dark-painted facade of red cedar and a bright, airy interior. More
Chan Brisco Architects builds wooden chicken coop that looks like a log cabin in rural Finland
This wooden chicken coop, installed in the grounds of summer house in rural Finland, is styled like a miniature log cabin perched above the ground on granite rocks. More
MIT champions large-scale timber architecture with Longhouse proposal
Wood is the key to a more sustainable building industry, says architect John Klein, who has led Massachusetts Institute of Technology students in designing a large community centre from mass timber. More
Treewow Retreat is a Chinese village house featuring a round freeform roof
An irregular undulating roof tops this tree-house-inspired holiday home on stilts, built in a remote Chinese village by architecture studio Monoarchi. More
Collins and Turner's Barangaroo House is surrounded by curving timber-clad balconies
Tiered balconies clad in charred timber dowels enclose restaurants designed "in the round" to provide views across Sydney's redeveloped Barangaroo South precinct. More
Arklab creates matching larch-clad houses with "the same DNA"
Swedish architecture studio Arklab has completed a pair of "sibling" houses in the German town of Heidelberg that feature unique angled forms to ensure they do not overlook one another. More
Ignacio Correa crafts wooden Casa Camilo for family of farmers in Chile
Two long volumes clad in local cypress and kinked at their centres form this house in rural Chile, by Ignacio Correa Arquitecto. More
Wooden "forest" forms an inner sanctuary inside Imaculada Chapel in Braga
This raised wooden structure, designed by Cerejeira Fontes Architects, creates a secluded inner chapel inside an old church in Braga, Portugal. More
Elongated skylight illuminates stables in Chile by Matias Zegers Architects
A skylight that runs along the ridge of this stables near the Chilean capital of Santiago allows daylight to flood onto laminated-timber trusses that support its curved ceiling. More
Plans for "pioneering" Portland wooden high-rise put on hold
Construction of a timber-framed high-rise building for Portland's Pearl District, which would have become one of the USA's tallest wooden structures, has been postponed indefinitely. More
Atelier Ordinaire's house in Beaune is made almost entirely from wood
French architecture studio Atelier Ordinaire has completed a prefabricated house in the Bourgogne region featuring an interior lined with knotted timber boards to complement the surrounding nature. More
Wooden "treasure chest" wraps Tel Aviv's new museum of natural history
A bulging, elevated timber structure wraps the exhibition spaces of the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv, completed by Israeli studio Kimmel Eshkolot Architects. More