Winter 2025 – two regional timber scenes in the new Annular nu
From Sweden’s southern Scåne and Småland counties come two recent projects. First in Malmö, Gjuteriet, Oatly’s new HQ mixing timber with circular, while in Småland’s Våxjø, the spotlight is on White Arkitekter’s hybrid city hall and rail station. We also cover Matilda Hunyadi’s award-winning SLOYDLAB embracing the decorative.
Central Switzerland: regional timber is highlighted at engineers PirminJung’s new Haus des Holzes office and SeilerLinhart Arkitekten’s close association with Küng Holzbau (including their championing of glue-free Moonwood) is comprehensively profiled.
And there’s also international Swiss starchitects, Herzog & de Meuron’s latest sustainable close to home showcase, HORTUS, in the Basel suburbs, is also their latest collaboration with Austrian rammed earth main-man Martin Rauch. Adding a further Mittel Europa hue, this time up in Northern Germany is Eberswalde’s funky cycle hub.
Alongside timber architecture and design, there is 20th century ecological art, medieval timber framing and a photo-essay on pre-modern Russian timber buildings.
Southern Sweden
For KjellenderSjöberg timber is at the heart of their Malmö Gjuteriet circular restoration
In Växjö a rail station doubles as the city’s new Kommunhus.
Central Switzerland
SeilerLinhart Arkitekten’s and Küng Holzbau’s inextricably interlinked story
PIRMINJUNG’s Haus des Holzes HQ fuses high tech and timber
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Italian tree man, Giuseppe Penone’s Thoughts in the Roots at the Serpentine
Hooke Park’s Tree and the Truss project
Matilda Hunyadi’s design urge turns the tables on Nordic minimalism
IKEA’s Ingka student design at Helsingborg’s H22
Hybrid HORTUS – earth meets timber
Herzog & de Meuron’s latest experimental timber earth-timber slabs
Wood Town Eberwalde’s funky timber cycle hub
Joe Thompson Middle Age, small-diameter timber solutions for today
William Craft Brumfield’s Russian timber buildings:
Contributors
Marcus Badman, Emma Jurczynski and Otis Harley were chosen from worldwide submissions to be profiled as new timber talent at Helsingborg’s H22 Expo’s Skogen, an exhibition tie-in with Ingka, one of the IKEA family of companies. This is an old feature which we’re now able to publish.
Matilda Hunyadi is founder of the award-winning designers, SLOYDLAB, and lives and works in Gothenburg.
William Craft Brumfield is one of the leading scholars of Russian architecture and architectural history, and is also well known for his photography of Russian timber architecture.
Miguel Chavez-Cornejo is a Peruvian Architect based in UK. He received a Master’s degree in architecture with distinction from the Architectural Association, focused on design and make methodology.
Joe Thompson is a timber-framer in residence at the Downland Museum in West Sussex, where he conducts research related to their collection of historical buildings.
All other articles are by Oliver Lowenstein from Fourth Door
We’d like to thank our contributors, Matilda Hunyadi, Miguel Chavez-Cornejo and Joe Thompson, along with the Skogen designers and architects. To Simon Estie, and Søren Linhart, engineer Michael Staffa, to William Craft Brumfield for kindly accepting our invitation to highlight his work in the photo-essay and to the LehmTonErde posse for input into their respective projects. And finally, to Hatty Nestor, Sam Jenner, Christina Jaenicke and Nerijus Venerskas for proofing and web design support.
Thank you also to London’s Swiss Embassy for travel and accommodation support for a Swiss research visit, out of which have come the Swiss features.
Earlier on nu now’s
Spring 2024 – highlights include dRMM’s Workstack, Alister Peters on the survival of Brighton’s elms, and DevoniAn/nular (part 1), including Emanuel Hendry, Cameron Scott and Dartington’s WoodLab.
Autumn 2023 – highlights include Molfsee open-air museum’s 100 Year Haus, Kazakstani Geodesic domes and Waugh Thistleton’s Anthony Thistleton reviewing two new CLT books.
HORTUS – photo Maris Mezulis/Herzog & de Meuron
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