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Classic Cottages Made Modern: Stylish Wood in Vermont
This group of beautiful cottages on the Marlboro College campus in Vermont take visual cues from the college’s traditional architecture, echoing centuries of Vermont traditions, while updating them...
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Wood House of the Future: Geometric Beach Cottage
The idea of what a wooden home looks like is shifting as contemporary architects use this natural, sustainable material in surprising new ways, contrasting its warmth with angular modern silhouettes....
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This Week in Wood: World’s Tallest Wood Building Proposed for Paris
Is this sky-high structure the wooden equivalent to the Eiffel Tower? Proposed for Paris, the 35-story tower at the center of the Baobab complex will be the world’s tallest building made of wood if...
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Sustainable Pine Rooftop Addition Turns Ordinary Residence into a Tree House
A squat brick house built as a getaway in the 1950s felt too dark and small for its modern-day owners, who envisioned something bright and open that preserves the existing structure. In making these...
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Wood-Frame Emergency Shelters Made From Earthquake Rubble
What’s the fastest way to erect quick, comfortable and durable emergency shelters while simultaneously clearing away rubble after an earthquake? Renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, known for...
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World’s Tallest Wooden Building Set for Construction in Norway
Stretching a full 173 feet into the sky, a 14-story tower made primarily of wood is set to be built in Norway, making it the world’s tallest. With so many wooden superstructures on the docket, the...
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Sky-High Timber Frame Mine Lets Recycled Beetle-Kill Pine Shine
A five-story pavilion made from reclaimed beetle-kill pine inverts the structure of a mine, putting its internal architecture on display for the 2015 Biennial of the Americas in Denver. ‘Mine...
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Eagle Pond House: A Modern Green Cabin Lined with Eastern White Pine
Two architectural designers have modernized the classic rural New Hampshire home, building their own residence from wood cut down on their own property and locally sourced Eastern White Pine. Working...
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Weirdest Wooden Skyscraper? Design for London Features Numerical Facade
The wooden skyscraper trend is really taking off in 2016, with dozens of projects in various stages of planning, and many more concepts and proposals released by designers on a near-weekly basis. But...
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Open House: Complex Structure Made of Nothing But Wood
Architecture students in Switzerland are getting a hands-on education not only in spatial possibilities when structures are freed from the limitations of conventionality, but also the use of wood as a...
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Blue Ox Timber Frames: Hand-Crafted Eastern White Pine Homes
The popularity of Eastern White Pine as a primary material for timber frame homes now extends far beyond New England, where it has been in use for centuries. Log home and timber frame home designers...
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White Pine, Swiss Mountain Style: Modern Cliffside Home with a View
White pine goes modern for a simple cliffside residence in the mountains of Weinfelden, Switzerland by the firm K_M_architektur. Situated on a sloped plot overlooking the town, with distant views of...
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Locally Sourced Eastern White Pine a Natural Choice for Green Vermont Cottages
Every summer, 80 master musicians with decades of experience arrive at Vermont’s Marlboro College for a seven-week festival inviting them to collaborate with young students. The Marlboro Music event...
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Race to the (Tree) Top: Tallest Timber Tower Now Under Construction in Chicago
The world’s tallest timber tower is in Vancouver – or is it Portland? Amsterdam? These days, it’s impossible to call, because ambitious wooden skyscrapers are under construction all over the world,...
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Transforming Wooden Garden Shed Instantly Triples in Size
This instantly transforming garden shed is almost too incredible to be real, expanding from a compact structure into several different configurations with either an open pavilion or a greenhouse-style...
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Timber City: A New Trend of Tall Timber Architecture on Display in Washington...
The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. doesn’t usually do current events exhibitions, but its curators say that all changed this year with Timber City due to a coming evolution in...
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Breezy Modern Beach House Made of Pine Overlooks the Mountains
When is a beach house not a beach house? You could argue that when it’s not located on a beach, it doesn’t count. But when an architectural typology that’s almost exclusively located on the water is...
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Prepare to be Impressed: 50 Architectural Details Made of Wood
Some people say wood is ‘having a moment,’ pointing out the rising popularity of this material in architectural projects all over the world. But considering the long history of wooden structures,...
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This Office Building’s Wooden Frame Was Built Without Fasteners or Glue
Though it’s certainly beautiful in its completed state, photos of this office building during the construction process are almost more interesting to look at than those of the finished product....
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Minnesota’s New Bell Museum of Natural History is Clad in ‘Cooked’ White Pine
Slated to open in early 2018, the new $64.2 million, 92,500-square-foot building for the Bell Museum of Natural History on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus is expected to become the...
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