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This Week in Wood: Modern Timber Addition to a Victorian Home
Looking at the front of this home in Balaclava, Australia, what you’ll see is a traditional Victorian characteristic of the neighborhood, with a modest white facade, twin chimneys and a picket fence....
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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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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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Amazing Wood Creations: Japanese Chapel Lined with Hand-Carved Lattice Panels
Beautifully intricate hand-carved wood tends to be utilized sparingly, in details like fireplace surrounds, railings, room screens and other decorative touches, but when it takes the main stage, it...
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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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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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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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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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Modern Pine Home in Finland Puts a New Twist on the Classic Log Cabin
What does a modernized version of a log cabin look like? In Finland, a forest home by architecture firm Pluspuu Oy gives us one beautiful example, stacking thick laminated pine logs with modern...
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The Definition of Cool: Angled Pine Facade Adds Modern Style & Shade
Here’s an example of an architectural project using pine lumber in an extraordinarily simple yet beautiful way. The ‘Green Pine Garden’ by Scenic Architecture started out as an old factory building...
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Tree Tower: Sustainable Timber High-Rise for Toronto Incorporates Living Plants
Rising 18 stories from street level in Toronto, with each of its balconies augmented by verdant greenery, this sustainable structure shows off the capabilities of tall timber construction. Penda...
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Sweet Simplicity: A Backyard Studio in Rhode Island Made of Native Eastern...
In a lush, quiet corner of Jamestown, Rhode Island, a simple and sweet outbuilding complements the house that stands beside it. With its board and batten siding, a small gabled volume attached to...
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The World’s Largest Timber Log School Building Modernizes a Classic Style
Traditional timber-based building methods get a fresh spin with a 118,400-square-foot complex planned for a former garrison area in Helsinki, Finland. AOR Architects won a competition to design the...
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Black-Painted Pine Pairs with Steel in a Rugged & Dramatic Chilean Cabin
We’ve seen some seriously cool pine architecture (and even furniture!) that’s either painted black for a striking modern appearance or intentionally, carefully charred with a technique like “shou sugi...
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