In Finland Eco-Villages grow up New housing, eco-villages and eco districts have begun to emerge in Finland during the millennium years. Eko-Viikki is a contemporary large scale, suburban eco-village in the Helsinki suburbs, while the cross-country Wood Town movement which began in the northern city of Oulu, has since been spreading across other cities and … Read more
Gehry@Maggies Dundee Frank Gehry interview on his Maggies Centre building In Fourth Door Review 7 – 2005 – A Design with Care piece (this article is not available in Annular Archive)
Timber Engines for Growth Julius Natterer, head of Lausanne’s I-Bois, on his Brettstapel experiments and the Hannover Expo-Deck Feature interview in Fourth Door Review 7 – 2005 (this article is not available in Annular Archive)
From Bubbles to Shells Wood Studio student Ville Hara designed and built the Nordic world’s first gridshell, the Bubble, for Helsinki school In Annular – 2005
Joensuu’s METLA Forest Research centre The arrival of Metla’s new timber office showcase in 2004 for the Forest Research headquarter in eastern Karelia marked the beginnings of a step change in Finland towards larger scale timber projects In Annular – 2005
Buildings In Motion Arne Henrikson brings timber and sustainability to Oslo’s rail station network In Unstructured 5 – 2005An earlier version was published in Building for A Future magazine, Vol 10, No 3, Winter 2000/2001
Gridshelter Nic Pople writes about Edward Cullinan Architect’s Weald & Downland Open Air Museum Gridshell In Fourth Door Review 5 2001 (this article is not available in Annular Archive)
If carpenter ants built future systems As stand-out structure at Doncaster’s turn of the millennium Earth Centre space frame canopy showed what lightweight timber structures could do In Fourth Door Review 6 – 2003
The Dreamlife of Trees Trees for Life and Reforesting Scotland are part of a wider homegrown reforestation movement, symbolised by the return of the Caledonian Forest In Fourth Door Review 4 – 2000 (this article is not available in Annular Archive)
Into the Tree Dreamhouse: The Architecture Ensemble’s Forest House Steve Johnson writes about re-envisioning the tree house for the future forest In Fourth Door Review 2/3– 1998 (this article is not available in Annular Archive)