Matt Hickman is an associate editor at The Architect’s Newspaper. His writing has been featured in Curbed, Apartment Therapy, URBAN-X, and more. Although you can find wood buildings of considerable ...

Canada Earth Tower is designed to rise 40 stories, and the wooden skyscraper would be the tallest of its kind in the world.. Image Courtesy of Perkins + Will / Delta Land Development Tall timber ...

Material Minds, presented by ArchDaily Materials, is our new series of short interviews with architects, designers, scientists, and others who use architectural materials in innovative ways. Enjoy!

Could you build the Empire State Building out of wood? Not just a tabletop model, mind you — but the whole 102-story, 87,000-square-foot skyscraper, covering a New York City block at its base, and for ...

Although wood buildings are nowhere nearly as tall as steel or concrete buildings, they are becoming a worthy competitor. Astonishingly, every other year a new record for the tallest wood building is ...

As designers, we are custodians of the built environment. With the pressure to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, it is our responsibility to carefully consider the environmental impact of our ...

As climate change became an issue in the last two decades, architects and engineers started looking at wood again as a way of reducing the carbon footprint of our buildings. Concrete, in particular, ...

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, ...