In Tacoma, Wash., the LeMay Museum is settling into its new 165,000-sf home, whose main occupants are an expansive collection of classic automobiles ranging from a 1906 Cadillac Model M to a 1965 ...

Achim Menges uses computer-guided techniques designed to make buildings more sustainable and affordable. Humanity has long sought to tame wood into something more predictable. Sawmills manufacture ...

The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad—plenty of hype, but only a few dozen completed projects globally. Concrete and steel still rule the world of ...

Gordon Cowley, founder and managing director of the firm, has always been interested in the creative aspect of timber engineering, rather than in massproduction; as he explains: ‘We have always been ...

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban likes to test the limits of materials. The Pritzker Prize–winner is perhaps best known for his work with cardboard tubes, using them to quickly and inventively shelter ...

Although initially conceived as a concrete structure, switching to timber as the primary building material proved to have a host of benefits. When San Mateo County set out to build a new office ...