Materials

Netherlands | ROTTERDAM
'Preservation through renovation' is a familiar slogan promoting adaptive reuse. But renovation does not always result in...
Conversion, Ecocentric, Wood

Netherlands | ROTTERDAM
New Town Hoogvliet, a satellite town of Rotterdam, has been undergoing an unusual kind of restructuring for the past ten...
Wood

France | ERMONT
Designing a house extension is often one of the first commissions a young architect receives. Fabien Gantois, a runner-up in...
Facade, Wood

Germany | HEMER
For a long time now, the regional garden shows organized by Germany's federal states have functioned not as festivals of...
Wood

Italy | SELVA DI CADORE
In this renovation project in the Italian Alps, there was no question of using one of the new types of modified wood. Faced...
Conversion, Interior, Wood

Switzerland | LUCERNE
The swimming pool in the lake at Lucerne has existed since 1885. Inside the wooden structure are two open-air pools and on the...
Conversion, Wood

Germany | BERLIN
Until recently, wood was seldom used for multi-storey buildings. Since the industrial revolution, steel, concrete and glass,...
Facade, Wood

Czech Republic | CHRUDIM-PODHŮRA
Towers and lookout towers have a long tradition in the Czech landscape. In the case of the Bára tower near Chrudim, the...
Wood

France | RIEDISHEIM
There has been a growing trend in recent years for the use of wood in health care buildings. The reasons are not difficult to...
Facade, Wood

Germany | STUTTGART
Using new computer-based methods, two research institutes at Stuttgart University have examined the elastic behaviour of wood...
Wood