Tag Wood

14-01-2022

NU architectuuratelier’s concrete and timber reception building

The new multifunctional entrance to Meise botanical gardens, in Belgium, incorporates a number of logistical facilities in a concrete and timber building

07-01-2022

FMD Architects’ CLT and aluminium home renovation project

An Australian home has been renovated in contemporary style with a CLT frame and aluminium cladding.

06-01-2022

de Reus Architects’ Big Wood Residence

Architect Mark de Reus’ home, Big Wood Residence, south of Sun Valley, Idaho, is more than just a home for his family: it’s a celebration of the architect’s career. More than thirty-five years of experience allow the founder of de Reus Architects to create a building whose simplicity belies the complexity of the project.

03-01-2022

ALA Architects, expansion of Terminal 2 of Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

Finland’s gateway to the world has been renewed with completion of ALA Architects’ expansion of Terminal 2 at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. The new airport terminal welcomes passengers with an impressive timber-clad ceiling expanding outside to form a massive curved canopy roof.

22-12-2021

Wellness in contact with nature, Studio Reaktor

Studio Reaktor, the Czech architecture studio founded by architects Jakub Heidler and Jan Kačer, has designed a wellness park in Senohraby in the Czech Republic, which invites users to relax in close contact with nature. The design and the surrounding landscape are in constant and intimate dialogue, for a truly unique and sustainable experience.

17-12-2021

Lemoal Lemoal’s sports hall of timber and hempcrete blocks

Lemoal Lemoal’s sports hall in Croissy Beaubourg is made of timber and hempcrete blocks, offering top technical performance.

09-12-2021

A passive building for active people: the o-va sports complex in Kolín

Everyone knows that the gym is good for you – but this one is good for the environment, too, thanks to a series of design choices made by the architects of Czech studio o-va, who built a gym with a reduced environmental footprint in Kolín, on the banks of the Elbe River in the Czech Republic.

29-11-2021

Eric Castagnotto’s winery combining heritage with innovation

French architect Eric Castagnotto expanded a historic winery for Château Angélus, Carillon d'Angélus and N°3 d'Angélus in Saint-Magne de Castillon, France. The result of painstaking reflection on design, the new winery boasts BREEAM environmental certification.

22-11-2021

JGMA and the SOS Children's Villages Illinois’s Roosevelt Square Community Center

The American architecture firm JGMA has designed the Roosevelt Square Community Center of the SOS Children's Villages Illinois organisation. A new cross-laminated timber (CLT) volume that houses both the offices of the SOS Children's Villages Illinois and the community centre with a kitchen space. A place as a physical manifestation of the forward-looking nature of the organisation that looks after children and families.