Fire safety used to sit somewhere near the edge of architectural thinking. It was addressed, documented, approved, and then quietly filed away while design decisions moved on. That approach no longer ...

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and BNIM have unveiled their design for a new mass timber cube structure called the Makers’ KUbe for the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design. A six-story, 50 ...

Timber erection began last month for the Center for Arctic Studies at Brunswick, Maine-based Bowdoin College despite an exceedingly wet summer, says Matt Tonello project executive at Consigli ...

The Retail Village at Sycamore & Oak for Black business owners and entrepreneurs opened May 17 in D.C.’s Congress Heights and its first participants have moved in. (Courtesy Congress Heights Community ...

Anyone who doubts that mass timber is mainstreaming into commercial, institutional, and multifamily construction should direct their gaze toward Arkansas. That’s where Walmart, the world’s largest ...

Timber structures have gained significant prominence in contemporary construction due to their sustainability, aesthetic appeal and favourable carbon profile. Nevertheless, the inherent combustibility ...

Although only four stories tall, Albina Yard, a spec office building, stands out among its one- and two-story neighbors in the scrappy residential and commercial district in north Portland, Oregon.

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban likes to test the limits of materials. The Pritzker Prize–winner is perhaps best known for his work with cardboard tubes, using them to quickly and inventively shelter ...

Firefighters and fire chiefs: Forget everything you know about wood construction. Tall wood buildings (TWB)—or more accurately tall mass timber buildings—are not the conventional, lightweight wood, ...

OTTAWA, Ontario — Results from some of the most extensive fire testing of large-scale, mass timber construction marks a "significant milestone in the advancement of mass timber construction." The ...