Not so long ago, it was exceptionally rare to see timber buildings more than six stories tall. But new engineered wood technologies like cross-laminated timber (CLT), glued laminated wood (gluluam), ...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Construction of Ascent, a 25-story mass timber building, is underway in downtown Milwaukee, and it's beginning to overtake nearby buildings. When completed the 284-foot residential ...

There's a huge boom in sustainable timber construction at the moment, with everything from museums to airports being made from modern engineered wood. Renowned Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru ...

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 ...

MILWAUKEE - It is lighter, greener, and even fire-resistant. Those are some reasons architects and engineers say they are using wood to build a high-rise tower in Milwaukee. At Van Buren and Kilbourn, ...

Construction began last month in Milwaukee on the 25-story Ascent, which will have a hybrid timber-and-concrete frame. The design team for Ascent—a 284-ft-tall apartment building just getting under ...

Denver-based architecture office Tres Birds announced that Denver’s tallest mass timber building is planned to break ground in July 2023. The 12-story building named “Return to Form” will be located ...

A 32-story mass-timber tower once billed as a national showcase is now mired in liens, delays and silence from key players.

Decades before the age of megatall skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa, Chicago boasted bragging rights as home of the world's tallest skyscraper with the Willis Tower (aka Sears Tower). However, if ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. New Land Enterprises' Ascent apartment development in ...

Australian software giant Atlassian has formally shared plans for its new Sydney headquarters: An ultra-sustainable “hybrid timber” tower designed by SHoP Architects in collaboration with prolific ...

Vanguard Group bought more than $2.2 billion worth of data-tower stocks and $1.2 billion of construction-timber stocks from January through last month, and plans to buy more shares of the handful of ...