Prefab apartment proposal wants to make city living more sustainable
Rotterdam-based architecture firm AEMSEN has recently unveiled BARBIZON, a design proposal for sustainable apartments...
Snøhetta completes stunning Norwegian cabins for glacier hikers
The breathtaking landscape of Luster in the western part of Norway has recently been joined by Tungestølen, a...
Elevated, green-roofed cabin minimizes impact on mountain in Norway
Designed by San Francisco- and Oslo-based firm Mork-Ulnes Architects, the Skigard Hytte Cabin in Norway features...
Red brick firehouse in Belgium runs on solar power
Rotterdam-based studio Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven has built a charming new firehouse for Wilrijk, Belgium. The...
Prefab Danish home was built from CLT and weathered steel in just 3 days
Set into the lush green landscape of Denmark's Fyn island, Villa Korup is a large home designed for a family of...
Wedge-shaped Sideyard champions CLT construction
When Portland, Oregon reconfigured the roadways in the Central Eastside community, a 9,000-square-foot berm space...
The Nature Conservancy’s Oregon HQ gets a green renovation
Portland-based LEVER Architecture has breathed new life into The Nature Conservancy’s Oregon headquarters with...
An origami-like CLT roof crowns this office in Japan
When Tokyo-based architectural office UENOA was tasked to design a new office building for structural screws manufacturer...
First CLT Passive House project in Boston breaks ground
Move over steel and concrete — a pioneering cross-laminated timber (CLT) project that’s set to break ground...
CLT gives a sustainable community center in Copenhagen a welcoming feel
In the Copenhagen suburb of Brønshøj, local architectural practice NORD Architects has completed the Parish Center,...
Cross-laminated timber makes this Scottish home climate resistant
Scottish firm Mary Arnold Foster Architects has unveiled a stunning home made out of several timber “pods”...
This student housing is the largest Passive House-certified building in the Southern Hemisphere
At nearly 70,000 square feet, Gillies Hall at Monash University in Australia has become the country’s largest...
Green-roofed CLT classrooms immerse children in nature
After transforming a historic castle into a secondary school for the Groenendaal College, Antwerp architectural...
LEED Platinum Co|Lab Building brings first-ever CLT structure to Virginia
Earlier this summer, William McDonough + Partners and HITT Contracting officially opened Co|Lab, an innovative...
Prefab housing pods pop up with speed at Dyson Institute’s modular village
The future of student housing may mean greater energy efficiency, faster construction times, and less waste if...
Sustainable timber house in the UK is a modernist’s dream
When it came time for London-based architect Catja de Haas to build her own home outside of the city, her first...
Playful gable-roofed home in Atlanta champions the power of CLT
Jennifer Bonner, architectural designer and director of MALL, has completed Haus Gables, a new ground-up residential...
A prefabricated timber facade envelops a gorgeous glass home on a Norwegian island
Oslo-based firm Atelier Oslo has created a beautiful home for a pair of artists who wanted to enjoy a peaceful...
Peek inside the tallest cross-laminated timber building in the US
Portland, one of the leading cities for sustainability initiatives in the U.S., is now home to the nation’s tallest...
RIBA crowns Children Village in Brazil as the world’s best new building
On the edge of a rainforest in northern Brazil, a recently built school complex by Brazilian architecture firms...
Long Lodge is an elegant and sustainable mass timber retreat proposal in the woods
Mass timber construction is growing more popular thanks to efforts like the 2018 Maine Mass Timber Competition,...
Wooden skyscraper city proposed for Stockholm’s most eco-friendly neighborhood
When Anders Berensson Architects was tapped by the Stockholm Center Party to design a new Stockholm neighborhood...
Prefab open-air theater pops up with speed in a London park
Completed in just seven months, the Regent’s Park Open Air Theater in central London is yet another example of...
A prefab chapel’s sculptural form amplifies the landscape in Uruguay
Perched on a hilltop in a bucolic rural landscape in Uruguay, the Sacromonte Chapel is a minimalist, prefabricated...
Yale architecture students designed and built this handsome home for the homeless
Since 1967, first-year Yale architecture students have designed and built buildings to better the community —...
Architecture students build a tiny CLT classroom in just 3 weeks
A team of 13 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) architecture students designed and built Emerge, a tiny timber...
Green-roofed office is the first large-scale CLT structure in southeast Europe
Instead of concrete or metal, this striking eco-friendly office building in Romania features a sturdy timber skeleton...
Prefab CLT pavilion cleverly encourages dialogue at a Vancouver TED conference
An experimental pavilion popped up by the waters of downtown Vancouver for the TED2017 conference. Selected as...
Nation’s first large-scale mass timber residence hall breaks ground in Arkansas
Cross-laminated timber may finally be having its heyday in the United States. The nation’s first large-scale...
Skinny micro-apartment can pop up in a parking space in just one day
Living in an apartment with the footprint of a parking space may seem improbable and uncomfortable, but the chic...