Typically, when you want to build a high rise, you need iron, steel, cement, concrete; materials that are super strong and durable but also come with a high carbon footprint. Now, some builders are ...

St. Louis' turn-of-the-century brick buildings are full of massive beams from old-growth forests. Kyle Howerton, a principal with St. Louis-based developer AHM Group, is working on a new high rise ...

Looking back at the past 10 years in mass timber design—since our firm’s first mass timber building, the John W. Olver Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—it is evident that as ...

The future of architecture lies in antiquity. I don’t mean that we’re headed for another round of neoclassical nostalgia but instead that it’s time to embrace a practice so basic and immemorial that ...

In a remodeled furniture factory-turned-apartment building in New Haven, Connecticut, the walls and ceiling are all yellow pine, harvested from Alabama. For our 2024 Earth Day series, the New England ...

“Chunky” is not typically considered a desirable quality for a building. Nevertheless, Shelley McNamara, cofounder with Yvonne Farrell of Dublin-based Grafton Architects, uses the term with clear ...

“The gaps in between wood, it's something that's natural and we're not trying to hide the fact that it's natural wood,” said Developer Jeff Spiritos at the ACME timber lofts on Crown Street in New ...