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Levitate completes timber cricket clubhouse in Surrey
London practice Levitate has completed a ‘light’ clubhouse for Valley End Cricket Club, clad in larch timber and featuring a large oversailing roof
Tag: Timber
Sauerbruch Hutton completes Berlin government offices with ‘wooden heart’
Commissioned, planned and constructed in barely 18 months, this new building in Berlin bucks the trend for German government projects being delayed and over-budget. Florian Heilmeyer visited it
Case study: D2, Greenwich Design District by Mole Architects
D2 features pyramid-profiled cladding that has a two-tone colour changing with the direction of the light, while fins in similarly dichroic glass surround the windows to refract coloured light over the façades. Photography by Taran Wilkhu
Dyvik Kahlen completes CLT Haringey community centre for Pocket Living
Dyvik Kahlen’s nursery and community centre sits at the gateway to Pocket’s West Green Place housing development,
‘Brexit, new work and Europe’s love for wood’ – why dRMM is setting up in Berlin
Stirling Prize-winning architect and timber pioneer dRMM has set up a European outpost in Berlin
Daab Design completes forest cabin in south of France
This timber-clad retreat near to Marseille cost just £80,000 to build. Today (Friday, 4 February) is the last day to enter AJ Small Projects 2022 if you have recently completed a project like this!
Concéntrico 08 pop-ups, Logroño
Spain’s Concéntrico 08 festival has launched a trio of international contests for landmark architectural interventions in the city of Logroño [Deadline: 11 March 2022]
Why the construction industry needs its own vegan diet
It’s not just our diets which need to change to tackle the climate emergency. Building materials such as steel and concrete need to be replaced by lower-carbon, ‘healthier’, plant-based alternatives, writes Dan Stokes
Material costs rise for 12th month in a row
The price of construction materials has now risen every month for a year, official government figures have revealed
Timber building innovation boosted by multimillion accelerator fund
A new accelerator fund has launched, giving cash to architects and design teams whose projects and innovations pave the way for a major ‘scale-up’ in timber construction