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How do new wooden-skyscrapers affect urbanism?

United States Architecture News - Dec 14, 2015 - 14:05   4247 views

How do new wooden-skyscrapers affect urbanism?

Architect Michael Green has drawn up plans for 30-storey timber towers in Vancouver. image © MGA

The concrete jungle has a rival: forests. Two urban building projects, in New York City and Portland, Oregon, will be changing their city’s skylines with an environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive building material. The key ingredient? Wood. Called mass timber, the material is an umbrella term for large, solid chunks of panelized wood.....Continue Reading

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