Off-site building components, whether mass timber, storage containers or the various types of modular units, can be beneficial to getting projects done, but using them properly means understanding ...
The operating life and life span of buildings are often far apart. If a property is no longer fit for purpose, it is usually demolished even though it would still be perfectly usable. Even in the ...
Text description provided by the architects. At 10 square metres (107 square feet), the dwelling unit is constructed using AUAR’s modular timber building system, which integrates robotics and ...
A move towards a built environment that centers sustainability and embodied carbon is driving innovation within mass and hybrid timber construction. In this piece, Buro Happold considers the power and ...
Prefabricated wooden houses date back to the 19th century, when so-called "kit houses" became popular in North America. Sold by companies like Sears, they offered affordable and convenient housing ...
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French architecture studios Atelier 9.81 and Perrot & Richard have renovated the Palais Rameau exhibition hall in Lille, inserting a modular and demountable timber frame into its heritage-protected ...
Outside Basel, Switzerland, Herzog & de Meuron has completed HORTUS, a project the firm has dubbed a “radically sustainable office building.” It was designed for tech companies and constructed using ...