An ambitious new timber tower in Toronto, Canada, is due to begin construction soon. Thanks to its innovative prefabricated wooden design, the residential building named 230 Royal York is expected to ...

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April has turned out to be an exciting month for tall timber construction: following the proposal for the world's tallest all-timber tower comes news that the world's tallest hybrid timber tower – ...

Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science (Structures & Mechanics), University of Oxford The 2023 Structural Awards, hosted by the Institution of Structural Engineers, has ...

A $700 million redevelopment in Milwaukee could be set to result in the tallest mass timber building in the world and the tallest building in Wisconsin. The project, led by green developers The ...

Construction began last month in Milwaukee on the 25-story Ascent, which will have a hybrid timber-and-concrete frame. The design team for Ascent—a 284-ft-tall apartment building just getting under ...

Milwaukee’s proposed 25-story Ascent tower sounds like a conventional housing project. Scheduled to open in September 2022, it offers 250+ apartments with views of downtown Milwaukee and Lake Michigan ...

Sydney could soon be home to the world’s tallest hybrid timber building if a new project comes to fruition. BVN design studio and New York-based SHoP Architects have been commissioned to build a new ...

Plans by Chicago developers to break ground on wood-based residential towers and office complexes have stalled, delaying what could have been a new era for the city’s architecture. Advocates and ...

One of the more memorable displays of old-style Chicago politics and boosterism that I ever witnessed was at a Streeterville community meeting circa 2007 in which outgoing 42nd Ward Ald. Burt Natarus ...