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    Using CLT, Hacker Architects Helps Connect a Workplace to Its Surrounding Nature Preserve

    … that’s part of the wetlands just outside the office door. The interiors derive color from the natural wood ceiling beams (uncluttered by mechanical equipment thanks to a raised-access floor) as well as from the leafy view outside, seen through the glass walls that delineate meeting rooms and an interior stairway. There are …

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    How Mass Timber Could Help Reduce Wildfire Risk

    … via a schedule of thinning, clear-cutting, controlled burns, and replanting. A 2018 analysis by researchers at Oregon State University actually found that managed tree plantations fared worse in a fire than nearby forests. The findings suggest that diversity of tree species, of their height, and of their spacing are also important factors in …

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    New Models for Cross-Laminated Timber

    … towers, showing off the material’s adaptability across scales. The students produced projects that were intrepid demonstrations of CLT’s resilience after being splintered from these blanks, which are “a sheet material that can do anything,” says Bonner, who used a similar process to create pieces of CLT for her own mass timber tour …

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    Step Inside the Habitat 67–Inspired Dorms at the Dyson Institute

    … may also enjoy “A New Restaurant in the U.K. Experiments with Cross-Laminated Timber.” Would you like to comment on this article? Send your thoughts to: [email protected]

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    Radical Change in the Building Industry Is Desperately Needed, and It Can't Happen Without Building Trades

    … the mainstream. Of course, all of this comes with a large price tag and a wholesale change in how we make and use buildings. There will need to be investment in research and development for new (and recycled) building materials and in new infrastructure to transport them. Hundreds of thousands of workers will need …

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    West Farms Community Land Trust + Kendal Eastwood

    … West Farms Community Land Trust Kendal Eastwood, Elise Park, New York Institute of Technology, Bachelorof Architecture '25Instructor: Evan Shieh Eastwood and Park propose a community land trust (CLT) model to address the problems with affordable housing in the West Farms neighborhood in the Bronx, New York City. Careful analysis of other housing developments and CLTs …

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    843 North Spring Street

    2024 Planet Positive Awards > Innovation > Best Impact on Health and Wellness > Winner 843 North Spring Street LEVER Architecture Los Angeles A windowless 1980s-era retail warehouse, 842 North Spring Street is now one of the first and largest hybrid CLT buildings in L.A. The office blends the city’s high-rise and warehouse cultures …

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    Catifa Carta

    2024 Planet Positive Awards > Innovation > Best Innovation in Material Use in Products > Winner Catifa Carta Arper A windowless 1980s-era retail warehouse, 842 North Spring Street is now one of the first and largest hybrid CLT buildings in L.A. The office blends the city’s high-rise and warehouse cultures—with a material palette …

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    Studio Kër Looks at Design as Resistance

    … of congregating is a concept that also carried over to his October 2023 Public Display outdoor installation, mounted as part of NYCxDESIGN’s Design Pavilion program. Various CLT wood stools were methodically arranged close together around a central altarlike element. While his chosen materials are often deeply charged and suggestive, Bennett also carefully considers shape …

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    Put These Timber Architecture Books on Your Shelf

    … ON CLT By Jennifer Bonner (Editor), Hanif Kara (Editor) Applied Research & Design (January 2022), 240 pp., $49.95 Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara’s Blank: Speculations on CLT explores the cultural, spatial, and technological significance and potential of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and its material unit, the CLT blank. The volume offers up a “close …