This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. At the University of Toronto, just across the street from the football stadium, workers are putting up a 14-story building with space for ...

Tall timber buildings are on the rise. Design teams around the world are taking advantage of ever-evolving mass timber technologies, resulting in taller and taller structures. Building off our recent ...

Our cities have become monuments of concrete and steel. Concrete and steel are durable, but they’re also immense sources of greenhouse gases and require large amounts of energy to prduce. The building ...

Towers of concrete and steel are expected in urban environments, but in a move that embraces the past and the future, wood may become the material of choice for more builders. At Timber House in Park ...

When the first skyscraper was built in Chicago in 1885 — a modest ten storeys — people were afraid to walk under the steel-framed building, fearing it would collapse. Today, as towers made of wood go ...

A new study has found that shifting to wood as a building construction material would significantly reduce the environmental impact of building construction. If 80% of new residential buildings in ...

Mass timber is one way to offset the environmental downsides of a data center, but it could also be a way to build them ...

CONVERGE LIVE - Singapore, 22-23 April 2026. Request invitation. The construction industry is "by far" the largest emitter of greenhouse gases of any sector, according to the U.N. Builders and ...

In-process, completed, and on-the-boards projects featuring wood, include housing, office towers, museums, and academic buildings from Europe and North America. Image courtesy Michael Green ...

‘In France, we build more with concrete and stone than wood,’ he said. ‘When I was exposed to Japanese building culture, I realised how you could build fantastic structures with wood. This material ...