A Timberbuild Renaissance for Europe In-depth feature on the Nordic countries (including Finland) turn to timber architecture and massive forest reserves could make real inroads into Europe’s combined building sector energy and carbon emissions In Fourth Door Review 6 (this article is not available in Annular Archive)
Studio in the Woods Documenting the 2012 design & make workshop – Photo-essay by Ioana Marinescu In Unstructured 5
Sweet Chestnut creates a contemporary design aesthetic Baker-BrownMckay’s use of Sweet Chestnut cladding makes its sustainable point
The Sweetest Timber Sweet Chestnut as a building material by David Saunders In Unstructured 5 – 2012 – Rewilding the Structural, Reweaving the Sculptural – Shells/Scales/Baskets/Weaves Sussex Gridshells ten years themed edition
Sámi sitelines Lapland’s Sajos Sámi cultural centre in the Northern Finnish town of Inari has put both its designers, Oulu’s Halo Architects, and the Northern Sami cultural community on the map – by Lauri Louekari In Unstructured extra 6 2012– Unfinished revolution – new Finnish timber architecture themed edition
Kaufmann Country Vorarlberg’s timber clan, including Hermann and Johannes Kaufmann In Fourth Door Review 8 – 2009 – Graubünden/Vorarlberg tale of two regions themed edition (this article is not available in Annular Archive)
All in the frame: the twenty-first century timber office Crafted from Douglas fir Page\Park’s Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park Headquarters is Scotland’s largest new timber frame building In Annular – A version of this piece appeared in Green Building magazine, spring 2008 (vol 17, no 4.) – A shorter building profile was also published … Read more
Designing the Future Forest How Scotland’s future forestry can green building with native trees, by Bernard Planterose Originally one of the essays for the Building Biographies exhibition, curated by Oliver Lowenstein and The Lighthouse, Glasgow 2008/9
Return of the Cruck-Frame: Homegrown and Re-invented: The revival of the age-old cruck-frame in two projects, Alec French Architects Sheepdrove Biodiversity Centre and Ben Law’s Prickly Nutwood, reflects a spectrum of what’s possible In Unstructured 3
Gridshelter Futures III – Growing Flimwell’s Woodland Enterprise Centre’s modular ribbed shell FeildenClegg’s adapted ribbed-shell highlighted the local weald wood, chestnut, spurring local its uptake as construction material across the South East of England In Unstructured 2 – 2007 (a version of this piece appeared in Building For A Futuremagazine, Autumn 2001, Volume 11, no … Read more