Architecture The Observer Strong, clean and versatile, engineered timber is the ‘new concrete’. With wooden skyscrapers in the offing, could it be the answer to the global housing crisis? Rowan Moore Sun 28 Jan 2018 08.00 GMT There is a miracle building material – one so environmentally friendly that it extracts carbon from the atmosphere rather than…
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has teamed up with cross-laminated-timber expert Waugh Thistleton to design his first UK building – a five-storey house that will be built beside London’s River Thames. Southwark Council last week granted planning approval for the so-called “pagoda in the park”, which is proposed at Potters Fields, behind City Hall and a short distance away from Tower Bridge….