Microsoft Silicon Valley in Mountain View incorporates the largest mass timber building in the US with high sustainability goals.

21st Century Timber

Six pine buildings form this storm-resilient marine research centre in Mississippi designed by US architecture firm Lake Flato Architects.

Image 21 of 45 from gallery of Timber Bridge in Gulou Waterfront / LUO studio. Photograph by Weiqi Jin

Image 3 of 14 from gallery of Growing Up Pavilion / New Office Works. Photograph by Xu Liang Leon

As steel and concrete fall to the wayside due to their steep environmental costs, glulam architecture is rising to exciting new heights.

Construction is underway on the $180 million Gateway Building at the University of British Columbia, designed by Perkins&Will and Schmidt Hammer Lassen. Intended as a “principal point of entry” to the UBC campus, the design of the six-story, 267,000-square-foot mass timber building seeks to...

As a material, timber is renewable, low-carbon and light weight, but is it the way forward for sustainable architecture?

Image 17 of 20 from gallery of House 1 / ALICE Studio Architects. Photograph by Dylan Perrenoud

The Amado House by Studio Bright is an Essendon period house that has been refurbished and contrasted with a new backyard pavilion with its own formalistic expression. Qualities of spaciousness, transparency and sunny outlook are embraced, but with their less desirable traits brought under temporal control.