How Wooden High-Rises Could Change the Urban Skyline
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...nd/544146/
EXCERPT: The first thing you notice when you walk into the office of Lever Architecture, in Portland, Oregon, is the smell: fresh, sweet, and vaguely Christmassy. That’s because Albina Yard, the year-old building that houses the office, was built out of fragrant Douglas fir. “It’s a space people immediately respond to on an emotional level,” says Thomas Robinson, Lever’s founder and the building’s architect.
Robinson is a pioneer in designing tall buildings that use wood, not concrete or steel, to bear their weight. Albina Yard is only four stories, but it’s the prelude to a more ambitious project: Framework, a 12-story mixed-use tower that will soon rise in Portland’s Pearl District. When it’s finished (likely in 2019), it will be the country’s tallest human-occupied all-wooden structure.
Although we’ve been building with trees since prehistoric times, they are having a moment, architecturally....
MORE: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...nd/544146/
The rise of the wooden skyscraper
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171026...de-of-wood
EXCERPT: In 2017 we’re on the cusp of a new revolution: wooden skyscrapers. It sounds completely ludicrous, like a modern twist on the construction fable the Three Little Pigs. But it’s really happening. Are they strong enough? Will they rot? And won’t they burn down?
[b]Why we should build wooden skyscrapers (video)
https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_green_...kyscrapers
EXCERPT: Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and, he hopes, higher), it's necessary....
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...nd/544146/
EXCERPT: The first thing you notice when you walk into the office of Lever Architecture, in Portland, Oregon, is the smell: fresh, sweet, and vaguely Christmassy. That’s because Albina Yard, the year-old building that houses the office, was built out of fragrant Douglas fir. “It’s a space people immediately respond to on an emotional level,” says Thomas Robinson, Lever’s founder and the building’s architect.
Robinson is a pioneer in designing tall buildings that use wood, not concrete or steel, to bear their weight. Albina Yard is only four stories, but it’s the prelude to a more ambitious project: Framework, a 12-story mixed-use tower that will soon rise in Portland’s Pearl District. When it’s finished (likely in 2019), it will be the country’s tallest human-occupied all-wooden structure.
Although we’ve been building with trees since prehistoric times, they are having a moment, architecturally....
MORE: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...nd/544146/
The rise of the wooden skyscraper
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171026...de-of-wood
EXCERPT: In 2017 we’re on the cusp of a new revolution: wooden skyscrapers. It sounds completely ludicrous, like a modern twist on the construction fable the Three Little Pigs. But it’s really happening. Are they strong enough? Will they rot? And won’t they burn down?
[b]Why we should build wooden skyscrapers (video)
https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_green_...kyscrapers
EXCERPT: Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and, he hopes, higher), it's necessary....
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