Prodema   To its Prodex panels of natural wood the firm Prodema adds a film of PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride), thus improving their capacity to protect against external agents, and with this, reducing the need for maintenance.

Madergia   With plenty of experience in Passivhaus certification, the company Madergia specializes in designing and raising buildings with CLT (cross-laminated timber) panels and other complementary systems.

Lunawood   Luna Triple Thermowood es un producto de madera termotratada fabricado de manera sostenible, que puede utilizarse tanto en interiores como exteriores, ya que es dimensionalmente estable, resistente y fácil de mecanizar.

Audiotec   The catalog of the firm Audiotec offers solutions for acoustic comfort, from acoustic islands to sound-absorbing panels, speakers, and grooved wooden boards, with personalizable colors, finishes, and forms.

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   The new Franklin district is taking shape on a redevelopment site in northeast Mannheim. On grounds that were once a US military base stood a school building. The brief of the competition won by LRO called for two new constructions: a new classroom b

Richter architectes et associés   France   The school complex is located in a regular, orthogonal urban grid of Mitry-Mory, in the Île-de-France region. The program joins an eight-classroom nursery, a leisure center, and a lunchroom for preschool and primary-education classes. The project dra

Lezaeta Lavanchy Tomás Tironi   Chile   This wooden house in the south of Chile responds to a privileged natural environment, between a green plateau and a forest of coihues that descends to Lake Ranco. The 147-square-meter residence is organized on a rectangular floor positioned parallel

López & Rivera   Spain   The house, with a built area of 363 square meters, is located within the buildable limits of the Basque municipality of Gautéguiz de Arteaga, in the environs of the wetlands of the Urdaibai biosphere reserve. Its shape is irregular, adapting to a sou

BeAr Architects   Spain   Naninuena is a narrow elongated house that responds to the site’s topographic conditions. It adapts to the pronounced slope of the terrain with meticulously positioned supports anchored directly to the bedrock, preserving this fragment of the territo

LAN Architecture   France   This 50-meter-tall timber-framed residential block stands in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. Its three main components are a commercial base, 132 apartments, and communal areas for residents, including a 300-square-meter terrace on the 8th floor, a vers

Waechter + Waechter   Germany   The German practice led by Felix and Sybille Waechter designed the Innovationsfabrik 2.0 center for emerging enterprises for a site on the banks of the Neckar River in the city of Heilbronn. Its facades present an exposed timber frame protected by a

Dom Architektów   Poland   The Polish firm Dom Architektow -- founded by the married couple Walenty Durka and Emilia Durka-Zielińskaha – has developed a timber system of modular dwellings. The DA House combines simplicity and prefabricated construction with recyclable and eco

Itten + Brechbühl   Switzerland   With sustainability in mind, this timber building rose to be easily dismantled after ten years of use. The construction of Forum UZH, a Zurich training and research center designed by Herzog & de Meuron, required taking down four existing sports

HW Studio   Mexico   This residential project seeks to convey serenity and calm through the manipulation of light. To do this it carefully explores how to capture light shining from above, generating an enveloping experience. The Emma House is also thought out as an exca

Bernardo Bader Architekten   Austria   Bernardo Bader’s scheme for an elementary school and gymnasium in Au, in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, was the winner of a competition held in 2020. These independent volumes complemented the preexisting buildings in forming an education campus.

Shigeru Ban   Japan   On a site adjacent to the the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, completed by Yoshio Taniguchi in 1995, stands this new institution for the city in Aichi Prefecture, a work of the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. The Toyota City Museum, built parallel to

Max Otto Zitzelsberger    Germany   This is a German research project involving the wooden construction, undertaken by the architect and professor Max Otto Zitzelsberger in collaboration with students at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). It stands on the grounds of an ope

Taller Básico de Arquitectura MRM arquitectos   Spain   In Mutilva, a town belonging to the municipality of Valle de Aranguren, Navarre, this social housing development takes an L shape opening out to views of the landscape while shielding itself from north winds. Rising on a concrete base, the building u

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   In 2004, the city of Naples invited, under the motto AAA (Architecture, Archaeology, and Art) invited prominent firms to propose designs for the new metropolitan line. The plan, aside from improving the connection between the outskirts and the city c

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The new University Children’s Hospital in Zürich-Lengg, Switzerland’s largest medical center for children and adolescents, comprises two buildings: a low-rise acute-care facility on the south plot, and a cylindrical construction for research and teac

Kengo Kuma OODA architecture   Portugal   The Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian has reopened after almost four years of renovation works. It is located on the campus of the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian. The main feature of the intervention carried out by Kengo Kuma – in collaboration with t

Kengo Kuma   Japan   A local company took the initiative of developing this cultural project as a coworking space and cafeteria. The structure and finishes are completed with cross-laminated timber panels, of which Okayama Prefecture is the largest producer in the countr

Bindloss Dawes   United Kingdom   The Old School House of Pitcombe, in the English county of Somerset, was built in 1864. The listed building was turned into a house in the 1940s, and enlarged thirty years later with a bedroom wing. This extension has been demolished and replaced by

Manuel Bouzas   Italy   As part of the third Festival des Cabanes, held at Villa Medici in Rome, the temporary pavilion Cabane 7L gives visitors the chance to enjoy views of the Renaissance gardens through the treetops. Raised entirely with firwood boasting sustainability c

Schneider Lengauer Pühringer   Austria   Though it is only a 19th-century addition, the tower of the castle of Hagenberg – with four bulbous pinnacles at the corners of its roof – gives the Austrian village its characteristic image, and the iconic profile of this vertical structure has even

Aretz Dürr Architektur   Germany   In the industrial and commercial zone of the German city of Altenkirchen, a storage and production space for the furniture manufacturer Schumann Project GmbH was built with a timber structure in six months. It serves as a prelude to the Graf-Zeppelin

3XN   Denmark   The firm 3XN has won the competition to build a visitor hub on the port in Assens, a city on the Danish island of Funen. An oval-shaped building will accommodate exhibitions and activities throwing light on the impact of human beings and climate chan

In the year 1965 the port authority of the state of Oregon’s leading city commissioned the local practice ZGF Architects to draw up a masterplan for the expansion of its flight terminal, which is a strategic point in connecting with Alaska up north a

Tras casi treinta años de trámites burocráticos, falta de fondos, un terremoto e incluso la sombra alargada de la camorra, la línea 1 del metro de Nápoles abrió en 1993 conectando con modernos apeaderos las colinas y el borde del casco. En sus sucesi

Though during the last century concrete and brick have played the leading role in construction, AV Proyectos 124 takes a stand for wood as a powerful alternative. This view is supported by architects and professors like Óscar Linares, who comments on

Alejandra Galache   Little by little, wood takes on strength as one of the alternatives to brick and concrete, which have for years monopolized the building sector in Spain. The Madrid-based architects Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano, co-founders of SUMA Arquitectura

Óscar Linares   Except for the great monumental works in the history of Western architecture, in which stone was used to create large, vaulted structures, the most commonly chosen material to cover space was solid wood. Several features supported its use in the cons

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The 23rd annual Serpentine Gallery pavilion, due to open in June, is the work of South Korean architect Minsuk Cho, and his company Mass Studies. The first Korean architect to be selected for the prestigious commission, he plans to create a cluster o

It is highly probable that wood was the first material ever to be used by humans to build their shelters and dwellings. Being easy to obtain and manipulate as well as highly resistant, and because small pieces of it can be joined to form larger eleme

Part of an agritourism project located in the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains, a Nordic horticulture farm has on its premises added four micro-refuges designed by the Quebec-based architecture firm Atelier L’Abri. Shaped like isosceles triangle

The Economist   Modern timber buildings can be cheap, green and fireproof.There is a global race to build the tallest wooden skyscraper. The record was held by Mjostarnet, an 85-metre tower on the shore of Lake Mjosa in Norway, which hosts flats, a hotel and a swimm

Ever since Napoleon took possession of the Villa Medici, it has been home to the French Academy in Rome, an institution that continues to take in gifted pensionnaires, and in addition to that, has set in motion a festival involving a competition for

With great success Logroño’s International Festival of Architecture and Design, aka Concéntrico, has for nine years now filled the northern Spanish city with imaginative ephemeral installations aimed at rethinking the urban environment and public spa

With its 130 million inhabitants, Mexico is the tenth most populated nation in the world, and among Spanish-speaking countries the one with most demographic weight. Add to this its strategic position, its important economy, and its powerful culture,

Fed up perhaps with all the artsy airs that architects sometimes take on, the Serpentine Gallery in London has this year decided to assign its summer pavilion directly to a conceptual artist. Eclectically trained in urban planning and ceramics throug

MIT   Nancy W. Stauffer   Caitlin Mueller, an associate professor of architecture and of civil and environmental engineering in the Building Technology Program at MIT, and her team focus on tree forks — that is, spots where the trunk or branch of a tree divides in two, formin

With materials sourced from the depths of Lake Pieman in Tasmania, and inspired by its home in a Bondi Beach office space, the Intersection Worktable merges a conventional worktable with material exploration and sculptural furniture. Reaching almost

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Skellefteå has wooden schools, bridges, even car parks. And now it has one of the world’s tallest wooden buildings. We visit Sweden to see what a climate-conscious future looks like. Skellefteå runs on 100% renewable energy from hydropower and wind,

According to statistics gathered by the World Health Organization, as much as 93% of the children of the world are constantly breathing in polluted air. Airbubble is a project developed by the London firm ecologicStudio that endeavors to address this

The firm Reiulf Ramstad has won the invitation-only contest to expand the museum that harbors Fram (Framtid, meaning future in Norwegian), the ship that Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Svedrup, and Roald Amundsen used in their famed expeditions. As part of a s

The bold presence of this work by OLI architecture, which at first glance looks like a warehouse in the middle of private property in New York state – clad in a charred accoya timber rainscreen meant to naturally patina over time – evokes the Serra s

Headquartered in Lithuania and with 30 years of experience to show for,  Maestro Casas - fabrica de casas de madera, is an enterprise specialized in building prefabricated timber dwellings in a wide range of designs. Each house can be custom-designe

The Economist   The AAAS heard how cities with lower carbon emissions could be built. More than half the world’s population dwell in cities, and by 2050 the un expects that proportion to reach 68%. This means more homes, roads and other infrastructure. In India alon

A barn in the German municipality of Kressbronn, near Lake Constance, has been turned by Thomas and Christine Steimle into a library and community center. In deference to the building’s history, the project balances past and present. The renovation i

On a plateau close to the Jostedal Glacier, overlooking it, stand these wooden cabins for use by hikers, designed by the Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta to withstand the harsh climate conditions, including strong winds, of this mountainous zone.

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