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.
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.
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.
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.
On the north shoe of Lake Constance – in Markelfingen, a district town of Radolfzell am Bodensee – stands this timber construction that is a hub of community life, providing sport facilities and event spaces. The project’s central defining feature bo
The design of Buitenverblijf Nest, a holiday home in Arnhem, draws from aviaries and birdhouses to make it blend into the forest landscape of Hoge Veluwe national park, formerly occupied by army barracks. It is one of eleven shelters camouflaged amid
Fundación Casa Wabi, an organization that fosters collaboration and social commitment through contemporary art, runs from three locations: in Puerto Escondido, Mexico City, and Tokyo. The initiative of the artist Bosco Sodi is based on the Japanese p
Henning Larsen, in collaboration with Brière Architectes, has won the competition to raise building B777 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN for its French initials), specifically on its campus in Prévessin-Moëns, close to the bor
Planned as a rereading of the traditional Basque-Navarre house, the project divides the program – four rental housing units for young people – into two volumes to improve its integration into the town fabric.
Xiuwu County in Henan province, China, is known for producing medicinal herbs, in particular Rehmannia root. This is the context behind the exhibition hall of Houyanmen Village, in Huanfeng. Through on-site research on the techniques of processing Re
Outside Bohinjska Bistrica, the largest settlement in the Bohinj Valley, stands this school promoted by the local community to orient education towards a closer connection with nature. The fruit of a collaboration between the Slovenian firm ARREA and
This compact and efficient building contains four classrooms, arranged in twos, back to back, around a multifunctional hall that also serves as a refectory. Each classroom has its own storage with sanitary facilities. The volume has a playful shape,
Pau Millet and Xavier Ramoneda of estudio Mirang were tasked to transform the former Germans Climent factory into a funerary home for Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood. The listed building was raised by the architect Modest Feu i Estrada in 1925. The re
Project carried out by Iván Bravo together with Martín Rojas (associate architect), in collaboration with Juan Oyarzún. “To avoid being tied up / Let nothing unite us.” These verses from Pablo Neruda’s poem Farewell were proud thoughts of a couple th
As per Passivhaus standards for maximizing energy efficiency, in consumption terms this residence qualifies for the NZEB (Nearly Zero Energy Building) certificate, impacting very little on the environment. It has a fully industrialized timber structu
This wellness center doubles as a medical facility for staff of KaneKa, which specializes in environmental technology. The 625-square-meter building combines with green roofs that fold and touch ground, besides different systems developed by KaneKa,
Three structures clad in burnt wood are connected by pathways in a mountainous landscape: the actual house (1,200 square meters), a bathhouse with perimetral spaces that include a hot bath, a sauna, and a steam shower, surrounded by a swimming pool (
The Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects, in collaboration with the engineers of the Ramboll group, has won the competition to transform the main railway station of the city of Prague. The project reconnects the historic station with the Vrchlického
On the outskirts of Vinh city in Vietnam, next to the Vsip industrial park, stands this 160-square-meter café. The project was conditioned by a low budget and also by a 5-year land lease term, so the main materials were selected in accordance with th
For centuries the floating houses of the river Babahoyo were the main places for sorting, storing, and resting along the trade route between the Ecuadorian cities of Guayaquil and Quito. When river ceased to be a commercial path, the structures afloa
The firm of Lille Coldefy has been commissioned to build the Sormonne leather good factory of the luxury brand Hermès in an undulating landscape between the municipalities of Tournes and Cliron, in France’s Ardennes region. The 5,700-square-meter man
The architecture office of Nataša Stanaćev and Manu Granados, based in Santiago, Chile, was commissioned for this small, 72-square-meter dwelling in Matanzas, on the coast of the commune of Navidad. Casa Kuvo is a 6 x 6 x 6 prism built with wood and
This timber-framed building has a recessed ground level for commercial spaces and five floors for offices. The facade presents curving prefabricated pinewood elements treated with green paint. The eaves above them are straight, generating a play of s
Envisioned as a village within a circle, the pavilions designed by the firm of Tarik Oualalou and Linna Choi, working out of offices in Casablanca and Paris, were the venue of the 2023 World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, held from 9
Located at 44 Rue Jean Baptiste Berlier, this timber construction rises to a height of 50 meters and comprises two volumes containing 77 apartments in 15 and 8 floors, and is a work of the practice led by Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki. The gridd
One of the advantages of architecture designed only for the metaverse is that, since it is never actually materialized, the high carbon emissions associated to construction never occur. Utopia is a structural exploration that exemplifies this asserti
The natural therapy center merges into a pine tree forest within the Indian Canyons of California. To respect the environment as much as possible, the project proposes a series of light timber pavilions without foundations that could damage the groun
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
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
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
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 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