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.

CoBe Architecture & Paysage WEEK   France   The Laherrère Center is part of an urban renewal program for the Saragosse district of Pau, the capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of France’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It rises on the site of an old hospice that was unoccupied and in ve

Florian Nagler Architekten   Germany   An open-air enclave that preserves old rural constructions of Bavaria has been completed with an entrance pavilion that adopts the silent presence of a granary. The orderly geometry and the simple larch cladding of the building’s exterior belie the s

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   In Gothenburg’s new quayside district and with more than 37,000 square meters, Kaj16 is one of largest hybrid structures in the world: the modular timber crown rests on a permeable concrete base that becomes an interwoven part of the city…

Dorte Mandrup   United States   The new Fay Jones School subdivision embodies the woodworking tradition of the city. A subtle glass covering that is superimposed to the wood structure lets passers-by see the laboratories, the exhibitions, or the workspaces from the street…

Kengo Kuma   Japan   Fifteen homes are stacked on the slope of Mt. Okura, overlooking the city of Sapporo (Hokkaido). The stepped volumes are set apart from one another just enough for all the units to get natural light and ventilation, and also optimal views of the surr

MAPAA Duque Motta & AA   Chile   In southern Chile's Malleco Province, specifically in the commune named Los Sauces, stands this building that is part of the education ministry's drive to build eight small schools in Araucanía Region, where a high percentage of the population is Map

Tomás Villalón Nicolás Norero Leonardo Quinteros   Chile   This theater in Panguipulli, a small rural municipality in southern Chile, in the region of Los Ríos, rises on the shore of the glacial lake it takes its name from, On a concrete plinth containing dressing rooms and services, the volume is actually t

PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados   Mexico   Immersed in nature, the house works around the challenge of preserving the land as it is and echoing it. To achieve this, the architecture is broken up into two dislocated parts accomodating…

BE_Design   Rwanda   Bruce Engel, who founded BE_Design in 2016, was commissioned to raise this shelter for health, education, and mentorship programs catering to women, which doubles as a place for the rural community to gather in. At the heart of the building is a spac

Onion   Thailand   The firm Bangkok Onion – established in 2007 by Siriyot Chaiamnuay and Arisara Chaktranon – was commissioned to raise a small conference room and a pick-up/drop-off driveway for guests at the Holiday Inn hotel at Bophut Beach in Samui, Thailand’s sec

EFFEKT   Norway   Considered the father of modern skiing, Sondre Norheim turned into a full-fledged sport what up to the mid-19th century was little more than a traditional means of locomotion, and popularized the slalom – in the local dialect, a course along a smooth

Mecanoo LOLA Landscape Architects Meng Architects   China   The Dutch firm Mecanoo and the Chinese Meng Architects, in collaboration with LOLA Landscape, are the winners of the international design competition for Shenzhen Guangming Scientist Valley. The ambitious project aims to establish the first comprehen

Kengo Kuma   Japan   Founded in the year 1958, Snow Peak is a manufacturer of climbing apparel and gear with headquarters in the region of Niigata, a popular spot for winter activities like skiing and visits to the traditional hot springs called onsen. The mountainous la

GRAAM architecture   France   The offices of a regional savings bank have been transferred to a building with a half-timbering structure that is a reinterpretation of the vernacular system of exoskeletons.

Lina Ghotmeh   United Kingdom   Open to the public from 9 June to 29 October is the temporary pavilion of the popular Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London. For this summer the commission went to the Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh (Beirut, 1980), who designed a round

Dellekamp Schleich   Mexico   In the courtyard of a large old house in the Polanco neighborhood rises a slender mixed-use building that is considered the first ever to incorporate a high-rise timber structure. The framework of the upper levels rests on the party wall and a single

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Netherlands   The modular wood system developed by Circlewood – a collective of architects, engineers, builders, and researchers headed by OMA/David Gianotten – came about as a response to the City of Amsterdam’s Innovation Partnership School Buildings program of

Edra arquitectura km0 - Àngels Castellarnau Visús bunyesc arquitectes   Spain   The Huesca firm Edra Arquitectura km0 – led by the architect Ángels Castellarau – and Josep Bunyesces are the authors of this project in Parc del Falgar, a parkland in the Barcelona municipality of Franqueses de Vallés. Different uses – administratio

Adjaye Associates   In the context of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, focused on Africa, the triangular pavilion of dark wood designed by David Adjaye takes its place just outside the Arsenale. Kwaeε means forest in Twi, a dialect of the Akan language spoken by m

Gonzalo Mardones    Chile   A set of basic volumes that are easily recognizable to the children is oriented towards an arcaded courtyard in order to guarantee a learning environment free of external distractions. The exposed structure and the insigne pine wood finishes have the

Natura Futura Arquitectura Juan Carlos Bamba   Ecuador   With a population of approximately 4,900 people, the majority of whom are women with few chances of finding themselves a niche in the work force, the urban community of Chongón has since 2009 benefited from the support of the Young Living Foundation,

De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop    United States   This multipurpose pavilion and outdoor space is located on the grounds of Locust Grove, an 18th-century farmstead, a national historic monument in Louisville (Kentucky). The building is carefully positioned to minimize its visual impact on the landsc

Parallect Design   China   Southwest of Jiujiang, in Jiangxi Province, China, is this complex consisting of 19 prefabricated cabins, a multifunctional hall, and a 24-meter-tall observation tower. The Chinese firm Parallect Architecture Studio received the commission with no re

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.

The firms headed by the Italian architects Andrea Botter and Emanuele Bressan worked together in designing a congress and exhibition center located in Agordo, a municipality in the province of Belluno, in the Veneto region. For the project they drew

It was to highlight the eroded footprint of a 12th-century castle that the Catalan architect Carles Enrich set about restoring the Merola Tower in Puigreig, a municipality of Barcelona province. The project was urgent, following the 2016 collapse of

Timber is perhaps the oldest building material. It was the protagonist of mythical tales about the ‘primitive hut,’ and its widespread use since then, in both popular and cultured architecture, can be attributed to reasons having to do with plain co

The huge technological multinationals wield power of the soft kind, not with violence but through a silent, albeit extremely profitable wheeling and dealing with our digital footprints. This power for the time being meets with little resistance, prot

Libraries have been one of the symbols of bourgeois society. Originally confined to monasterios and palaces, distant havens of elitist knowledge, libraries eventually became quintessential public spaces in the capitalist and increasingly democratic c

The Economist   Buildings can become greener. They can use more recycled steel and can be prefabricated in off-site factories, greatly reducing lorry journeys. But no other building material has environmental credentials as exciting and overlooked as wood. The energ

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