Wood-drenching usually features spaces almost entirely covered in wood. It's a beautiful trend, if done right. But these ...

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The standards depend on the type of building and the variety of wood used, but Green generally adds around 3.6 centimeters (1.4 inches) of extra material to his structures for each hour of ...

But Japan has a long and continuous history of wooden architecture. The devastating earthquakes of 1891 and 1923 exposed the shortcomings of then-popular European-style brick and stone buildings.

When most people think of wood architecture, they imagine a balloon—or, rather, a balloon frame, the lightweight but sturdy residential-building system of thin wood beams introduced during the ...

Wood is being billed as the answer to creating greener cities – lightweight and sustainable, it is even said to be more fire resistant than steel. The newest addition to the timber trend is a ...

Nerima House "I looked at over 8,000 buildings to make the selection for Wood," says Hall. "Many of those were small Japanese houses.

The starchitecture of Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Rem Koolhaas might rule the day today, but the world's earliest architecture was quite a bit more, shall we say, austere. Archaeologists have ...

Modern architecture doesn’t have to be chilly and stark. Just ask the master builders who now use wood to warm things up. In a new book, “100 Contemporary Wood Buildings” (Taschen, $59.99 ...

This oak crate, one of the oldest wooden structures in the world, once lined a well A handful of oak-lined water wells built by Europe’s first farmers have earned the title of the world’s ...

Wood as a building material is having a real comeback in contemporary Scandinavian design. Bent into minimalistic circular structures and sculptural forms, it is used with surprising results ...