Working with the future residents of the La Borda social housing complex in Barcelona, Lacol arquitectura cooperativa designed a tall CLT building that promotes a low-impact way of life. Photography Lacol, Lluc Miralles, Anna Bosch Miralpeix, and Chopo
Mass timber can help us tackle the climate emergency safely and we cannot afford to ignore it, says Maribel Mantecon
This week’s top stories reviewed by the AJ’s Simon Aldous: Newham hires architect to replace timber with concrete on dRMM design • Trump: all federal buildings must be Classical • Furore over Crystal Palace subway competition • Grenfell inquiry backs architect’s immunity request
Newham Council’s housing company is swapping the primary structure of a dRMM-designed scheme from timber to concrete in the wake of post-Grenfell changes to building regulations
An 85.4m-high tower in Brumunddal, Norway, by Voll Arkitekter has been confirmed as the world’s tallest timber building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Architects must engage with modular housing or end up like ‘sad old Jedi knights in the corner of the room’, according to Waugh Thistleton’s Andrew Waugh
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) specialist Waugh Thistleton Architects has vowed to fight the government’s new combustibles ban after it emerged that engineered timber would not be exempt from the policy
Anthony Thistleton, founding partner of Waugh Thistleton Architects, explains why the age of concrete is over and why engineered timber is a solution to the biggest issue of our age
The 405m² project in the Highlands provides a new public face to a 19th-century building in the Scottish Highlands
The £13 million scheme is one of Scotland’s largest cross-laminated timber education buildings
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