Stack of all Trades

Stack of All Trades: dRMM’s WorkStack

CLT: A Stage Design Primer & Blank Speculations on CLT

Cross Laminated Timber: Anthony Thistleton reviews two new books on CLT

Wood for well-being

A new wave of Maggie’s buildings highlight timber’s warmth and healing qualities.

Originally in Zuschnitt. A Design with Care/Annular piece.

Building with Hardwood

dRMM’s Jonas Lencer reviews a timely book arriving in the midst of the growth in engineered hardwood’s popularity. Authored by Konrad Merz, Anne Niemann, and Stephan Torno – Detail Books.

Overstories

Four views from across the related worlds of architecture, timber promotion, woodwork and forest activism on Richard Power’s The Overstory

In Unstructured 10

Pop Goes the Wastewood

dRMM’s Woodblock House for and with artist Richard Woods brings the artist’s re-use ethic of upcycling and painting waste-wood into the built environment

Wood if you Could

CLT comes of age with WaughThistleton and dRMM 

In Blueprint 356 – Jan/Feb 2018

dRMM and their ‘way sexier’ CLT story

By making CLT synonymous with their studio image, London’s dRMM have become the UK’s foremost 21^st timber studio

Part of the in-depth dRMM CLT journey themed section – In Unstructured extra 9 CLT futures themed edition – 2018

Why timber towers don’t cut it

dRMM head honcho’s Alex de Rijke’s argument with tall timber

Part of the in-depth dRMM CLT journey themed section – In Unstructured extra 9 CLT futures themed edition – 2018

The avant-timber provocateurs

Unstructured extra’s in-depth dRMM CLT journey themed section

In Unstructured extra 9 CLT futures themed edition – 2018

Hackney – Improbable World Centre of Urban Timber

Behind the rise of rise of London’s leading timber hub

In Unstructured extra 9 CLT futures themed edition – 2018

Into the Mystic

Stroud’s Christian Community Chapel is, according Nic Pople, the projects architect the first CLT Monocoque building

In Unstructured extra 9 CLT futures themed edition – 2018

Diving for Pearls

The battle for the People’s Pier and dRMM’s part in Hasting’s regeneration aspirations

In Unstructured extra 9 CLT futures themed edition – 2018

Hands-On learning revives a forgotten timber classic

Wynstones School builds its own Belfast Truss for its new hall

Annular – A version of this piece originally appeared in Green Building magazine, Vol 17, no 2

Hackney, CLT capital of London

How the North London borough has become the urban centre for CLT and engineered timber

In Zuschnitt 59/September 2015 –  German language version here

The Cult of the Gridshell

The wave of gridshells across Britain by WilkinsonEyre, Glen Howells, Edward Cullinan Architects, and others, illustrates how the singular structural form has been embraced by UK architects and engineers 

Feature for Detail Green May 2013

Timber Towers

Timber high rise across Europe, featuring Vorarlberg’s Hermann Kaufmann

In Blueprint315 – June 2012

How Massive Wood Came to Britain

The story of how a few mission driven sustainability architects, engineers and left field timber folk propelled CLT into the UK’s construction sector

In Detail Green 2011.1 Spring

Towering Impact

Timber High Rise across Europe; WaughThistleton in London, dRMM and Helen & Hard in Stavanger and Klingbeil + Kaden in Berlin

In Green Building Magazine– Summer 2009, Vol 19, 1

Reinventing the school space

dRMM’s Kingsdale School CLT sports and musical hall, along with its earlier Geodesic experiment, helped propel timber into the broader naughties architectural conversation

In Annular. A version of this piece originally appeared in Green Buildings volume 17. no 2. 2007