Jun 15, 2021 · Across the globe, tall wood structures have begun transforming the world of skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, ushering in an important shift to an architectural practice that has...

Mar 22, 2019 · In Norway, a new high-rise edifice built almost entirely of wood—call it a “plyscraper”—has finally opened its doors. The Mjøstårnet building, which includes a hotel, restaurants, offices,...

Jan 11, 2016 · Wood is a go-to material for floors, doors, furniture, and now, a skyscraper—the very first of its kind in the U.S. Construction on Portland, Oregon’s wood high-rise, Framework, is slated to...

Oct 11, 2023 · But once a recently approved residential high-rise in Perth, Australia, is erected, there will be no mistaking how central sustainability was to the project. Why? Because it would stand as the...

Jul 29, 2022 · WISCONSIN—At 25 stories high—284 feet—the Ascent MKE Building, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is officially the tallest mass timber building in the world, moving ahead of Norway’s Mjösa 18-story tower. The USDA Forest Service provided support for Ascent through the agency’s Wood Innovations program and Forest Products Laboratory ...

Jun 9, 2017 · Located in downtown Portland, Oregon, the building known as Framework will cap out at 12 floors and approximately 128 feet, ushering in a new era of tall building construction in the US.

Sep 18, 2023 · HoHo Vienna stands as a towering testament to high-rise timber construction, currently ranking among the world's tallest buildings with a height of 275 feet.

Jun 8, 2017 · Paving the way for mass timber construction in the United States, The Framework Project, LLC has just announced that it received approval for a building permit that will allow the country's first wood high-rise structure to be built.

Wood, one of humanity’s oldest construction materials, offers a path to a more sustainable built environment. An emerging system of building materials called Mass Timber is being used in ways that avoid the “carbon cost” of traditional high-rise construction in concrete and steel.

Sep 17, 2015 · In New York and Portland, two high-rise buildings will be made not from concrete or metal, but a throwback material: good old trees. A 10-story residential condo, slated for Manhattan’s Chelsea...