Prodema   To its Prodex panels of natural wood the firm Prodema adds a film of PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride), thus improving their capacity to protect against external agents, and with this, reducing the need for maintenance.

Madergia   With plenty of experience in Passivhaus certification, the company Madergia specializes in designing and raising buildings with CLT (cross-laminated timber) panels and other complementary systems.

Lunawood   Luna Triple Thermowood es un producto de madera termotratada fabricado de manera sostenible, que puede utilizarse tanto en interiores como exteriores, ya que es dimensionalmente estable, resistente y fácil de mecanizar.

Audiotec   The catalog of the firm Audiotec offers solutions for acoustic comfort, from acoustic islands to sound-absorbing panels, speakers, and grooved wooden boards, with personalizable colors, finishes, and forms.

Atelier POEM   Spain   The studio of Alice Cecchini and Roman Joliy, Atelier Poem, has designed this open shelter for Foresta Collective. The group operates between Germany and Spain and promotes education based on direct experience with nature. The project is a spatial re

Wiki World Advanced Architecture Lab [AaL]   China   The result of a collaboration between United Investment Merryda Hotel Management Group and Wiki World, Merryda Wiki World – Secret Camp brings together more than a dozen houses designed as experimental shelters in direct dialogue with nature. The com

Atelier Sérgio Rebelo   Portugal   In a region of exceptional beauty, the architecture engages in a dialogue with a centuries-old winemaking tradition deeply rooted in the landscape. The Adorigo estate is located in Alto Douro Vinhateiro, a Portuguese wine-growing area recognized by U

depA Architects   Portugal   A perimeter composed of large blocks of granite and a gridded wooden roof determine the spaces of this greenhouse located within the famous park of Portugal’s northern capital...

LAUS architectes   France   Rising on a previously vacant lot, on slightly sloping ground, the new municipal market hall is a key piece in restructuring the urban fabric and revitalizing community life. The building takes on a clear, recognizable presence without imposing itsel

Christian Schmoelz    Austria   The Allesamt Family Center in Nenzing is a public building that provides two essential services under one roof: child care and nursery, and professional advice and support for parents and families. This comprehensive approach responds to growing dema

Sou Fujimoto Architects   Japan   Designed and built for Expo 2025 Osaka, the huge wooden structure in the shape of a ring is conceived as a symbolic piece that represents the unity of all the participating countries. It also marks a clear boundary in the diffuse territory of the art

Arquipélago Mariana Caires   Brazil   The inspiration of a famous bossa nova by Tom Jobim, the undulating profile of the Mantiqueira Range spreads out in front of a house built on a steep hillside at an altitude of over 1,500 meters, where a solitary tree grew rooted to a rock formation.

Studio Gang   United States   The use here of recycled and locally sourced materials, optimal-form factors, and renewable energy systems incites students to contribute to building a more sustainable future. The open-plan ground level features a double-height atrium from which a n

BDP    Netherlands   The new LennaMare school – located in Lemmer, in the Dutch province of Friesland – has a clear, distinctive silhouette that reinterprets the architectural language of traditional black wooden barns. This local reference is expressed through a facade

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   This student centre has recently been inaugurated at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Designed by Danish firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) in collaboration with New York-based Rockwell Group, which was responsible for the interior design, the compl

Bernardo Bader Architekten   Austria   The modest home of the local football team has increased its capacity through a stand marked at the corners with slender light towers that give the site an identity. The new structure delimits the playing field on three sides, respecting the existing

Bernardo Bader Architekten   Austria   A preschool seeks to create a welcoming ambience that children can relate to, instilling in them, in their inborn curiosity, a spirit of independence through learning and working. Characterized by a concrete floor coated in dark clay-casein that crea

CRB arquitectos   Mexico   Located in the Roma Norte neighbourhood of Mexico City, on Álvaro Obregón Street, this residential complex stands out for its mixed structure, which combines assembled wood with steel elements hidden in a double lattice façade. This architectural sol

Grafton Architects Modus Studio   United States   The Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation, which recently opened in Fayetteville (Arkansas), is a facility for timber-construction research and training. Part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design of the Universi

Malte Kloes Architekten   Switzerland   The new Borna Park complex in Rothrist, in the Swiss canton of Aargau, was thought up to integrate the life and work of disabled people with the natural environment. Designed by Zurich-based Malte Kloes Architekten, it has two buildings: a residence

Ryue Nishizawa   Japan   Set in the heart of nature, the hotel comprises eight guestrooms, a shared lounge, a main salon, a tea room, a bathroom, and a communal courtyard, distributed across ten volumes with their respective gardens, all linked by a continuous porch. The cli

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The valley station of the funicular that ascends to one of the Churfirsten peaks has been fully reconstructed in timber, maintaining the classic open hall from which the train departs. A large roof shelters the services of the terminal – the sixth co

Infraestudio   Cuba   West of Havana, Cuba, in the municipality of Artemisa, this residence is located on a cliff. It maintains the dimensions and essential elements of a preexisting house: a perimeter of 14 x 14 meters and a gable roof. With a total area of 366 square me

Studio Anne Holtrop   Netherlands   I nspired by the Déssin Automatique of Dadaist Jean Arp, in which he discovered chance to shape his work, the Temporary Museum started from pencil scribbles. Here, unconsciously sketched drawings become a way of discovering form that does not referen

Manuel Bouzas   Portugal   The remains of an old villa and its fountain have been restored and protected with a wooden roof to give the people of the neighborhood a gathering place with a distinctive identity. Rising from newly cleaned walls and with the tip resting on a V-sha

Espacio Común   Peru   Coinciding with the swelling of the Itaya River, a new floating stage was raised in accordance with vernacular practices, using only basic tools and the body itself to manipulate pieces on water. On a raft made of logs and a surface of planks, a trap

Quena Margarita González Escobar Juan David Hoyos Taborda    Colombia   With a built area of 67.5 square meters, this house stands as an example of sustainable architecture in the rural zone of Fredonnia, a municipality of the Colombian department of Antioquia…

Because the cowl does not make the monk, although Bernardo Bader (Bregenzerwald, 1974) recently built his new office in raw exposed concrete, wood is the material he works most with, less out of whim than by imposition of the secluded area at the foo

Fernando Pérez Oyarzún   The term ‘centralized composition’ brings memories of reading Wittkower’s Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism as a student. How ideas travel is astonishing: in this case, architectural theories of the Renaissance were retrieved in the amb

Miguel Sotos   Compiling families of carpentry joints has always been an arduous, practically unmanageable task. In a huge effort, Sascha Bauer and Daniel Pauli have not only collected a myriad, but also built a cross-cultural bridge by investigating their typologi

In the year 1965 the port authority of the state of Oregon’s leading city commissioned the local practice ZGF Architects to draw up a masterplan for the expansion of its flight terminal, which is a strategic point in connecting with Alaska up north a

Tras casi treinta años de trámites burocráticos, falta de fondos, un terremoto e incluso la sombra alargada de la camorra, la línea 1 del metro de Nápoles abrió en 1993 conectando con modernos apeaderos las colinas y el borde del casco. En sus sucesi

Though during the last century concrete and brick have played the leading role in construction, AV Proyectos 124 takes a stand for wood as a powerful alternative. This view is supported by architects and professors like Óscar Linares, who comments on

Alejandra Galache   Little by little, wood takes on strength as one of the alternatives to brick and concrete, which have for years monopolized the building sector in Spain. The Madrid-based architects Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano, co-founders of SUMA Arquitectura

Óscar Linares   Except for the great monumental works in the history of Western architecture, in which stone was used to create large, vaulted structures, the most commonly chosen material to cover space was solid wood. Several features supported its use in the cons

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The 23rd annual Serpentine Gallery pavilion, due to open in June, is the work of South Korean architect Minsuk Cho, and his company Mass Studies. The first Korean architect to be selected for the prestigious commission, he plans to create a cluster o

It is highly probable that wood was the first material ever to be used by humans to build their shelters and dwellings. Being easy to obtain and manipulate as well as highly resistant, and because small pieces of it can be joined to form larger eleme

Part of an agritourism project located in the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains, a Nordic horticulture farm has on its premises added four micro-refuges designed by the Quebec-based architecture firm Atelier L’Abri. Shaped like isosceles triangle

The Economist   Modern timber buildings can be cheap, green and fireproof.There is a global race to build the tallest wooden skyscraper. The record was held by Mjostarnet, an 85-metre tower on the shore of Lake Mjosa in Norway, which hosts flats, a hotel and a swimm

Ever since Napoleon took possession of the Villa Medici, it has been home to the French Academy in Rome, an institution that continues to take in gifted pensionnaires, and in addition to that, has set in motion a festival involving a competition for

With great success Logroño’s International Festival of Architecture and Design, aka Concéntrico, has for nine years now filled the northern Spanish city with imaginative ephemeral installations aimed at rethinking the urban environment and public spa

With its 130 million inhabitants, Mexico is the tenth most populated nation in the world, and among Spanish-speaking countries the one with most demographic weight. Add to this its strategic position, its important economy, and its powerful culture,

Now that in the United States there are those who have posed the ‘need’ to make civic architecture beautiful again through a ‘purely American’ style, the powers-that-be ought to do the exercise of figuring out where lies the essence of a nation that

Fed up perhaps with all the artsy airs that architects sometimes take on, the Serpentine Gallery in London has this year decided to assign its summer pavilion directly to a conceptual artist. Eclectically trained in urban planning and ceramics throug

MIT   Nancy W. Stauffer   Caitlin Mueller, an associate professor of architecture and of civil and environmental engineering in the Building Technology Program at MIT, and her team focus on tree forks — that is, spots where the trunk or branch of a tree divides in two, formin

With materials sourced from the depths of Lake Pieman in Tasmania, and inspired by its home in a Bondi Beach office space, the Intersection Worktable merges a conventional worktable with material exploration and sculptural furniture. Reaching almost

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Skellefteå has wooden schools, bridges, even car parks. And now it has one of the world’s tallest wooden buildings. We visit Sweden to see what a climate-conscious future looks like. Skellefteå runs on 100% renewable energy from hydropower and wind,

According to statistics gathered by the World Health Organization, as much as 93% of the children of the world are constantly breathing in polluted air. Airbubble is a project developed by the London firm ecologicStudio that endeavors to address this

The firm Reiulf Ramstad has won the invitation-only contest to expand the museum that harbors Fram (Framtid, meaning future in Norwegian), the ship that Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Svedrup, and Roald Amundsen used in their famed expeditions. As part of a s

The bold presence of this work by OLI architecture, which at first glance looks like a warehouse in the middle of private property in New York state – clad in a charred accoya timber rainscreen meant to naturally patina over time – evokes the Serra s

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