Tag Wood

25-05-2021

FMG high-tech ceramic surfaces for outdoor use: benefits and beauty, for public and private spaces

Increasingly refined design proposals for outdoor living are going through a time of flourishing growth and creativity. High-tech ceramic surfaces are perfect for the care and decoration of outdoor spaces, providing a guarantee of resistance, safety, inalterability and easy cleaning and maintenance. FMG’s Twenty collection, in neutral colours that are easy to mix and match, responds to the demands of outdoor living with a variety of laying solutions, from dry laying over grass, gravel or sand to gluing onto a concrete screed or raised floor installation

10-05-2021

Marina Vella’s Casa Traversa: an extension of the landscape

Peruvian architect Marina Vella has built a house in San Luis Potosi, Mexico that is inspired by intense dialogue with the landscape and appears to be a natural extension of it. The construction in contemporary style uses local vernacular building techniques and materials appropriate for the climate.

07-05-2021

The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design by Lord Aeck Sargent with The Miller Hull Partnership

The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta - designed by US firm Lord Aeck Sargent in collaboration with The Miller Hull Partnership - has won one of the AIA COTE® Top Ten Awards. These constitute the industry’s best-known awards programme for excellence in sustainable design and are presented by the AIA which, for the past 25 years, has celebrated ten of the most innovative and outstanding projects in the field of design and sustainability.

30-04-2021

Vector architects’ hotel of cast concrete and concrete blocks

Vector Architects design a hotel made of cast-in-place concrete and concrete blocks next to an old sugar mill

28-04-2021

SRG Partnership and Behnisch Architekten design the Karl Miller Center

The team consisting of SRG Partnership with Behnisch Architekten designed the Karl Miller Center, new home of the School of Business at Portland State University (PSU) in Portland, Oregon. The building's sustainable combination of reclamation and new construction has earned it LEED Platinum certification.

19-04-2021

Michael Green Architecture completes two new mass timber buildings

MGA Michael Green Architecture of Vancouver completed two new mass timber buildings for the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, in the United States. In line with the institution’s mission, both buildings are made of wood and designed in collaboration with a number of departments in the College.

14-04-2021

Taft, a prefabricated home by Skylab Architecture in partnership with MethodHomes

Taft is a home in Portland, Oregon, designed and built using HOMB, a prefabricated modular construction method developed by Skylab in partnership with MethodHomes that minimises construction time and waste, offering a model of sustainable housing.

13-04-2021

Award-winning architecture for the sporting tradition of Quebec

Designed by ABCP architecture, the ice-skating rink in Parc des Saphirs, Boischatel, Canada is a sporting facility sheltered from the weather in both summer and winter by an iconic glulam roof. The award-winning structure made out of locally sourced materials is very popular with the locals.