Materials

Austria | PISTORF
Once, the house was a 'Kellerstöckl', a kind of building typical of Austria's wine-growing regions. The brick-vaulted...
Facade, Wood

Bosnia and Herz. | OSTOJIĆI, BJELAŠNICA
The village of Ostojići is situated on the Bjelašnica mountainside, not far from the capital of Bosnia and...
Wood

Finland | OMENAMÄKI
The Housing Production Office of the City of Helsinki has been working with three different architecture firms on a new...
Wood

Austria | VIENNA
The Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna keeps coming up with first-class architecture exhibitions. Star architects...
Colour, Interior, Wood

Malta | VALETTA
Vault No.1 on the Valletta waterfront began life as a storage space for timber, stacked full with crates for use on the nearby...
Conversion, Interior, Wood

Netherlands | HELMOND
In Helmond, in the south-eastern Netherlands, architect Theo Termond has designed a new car park for the Elkerliek hospital....
Facade, Wood

Spain | MADRID
Foreign Office Architects gave bamboo a leading role in their latest housing scheme in Spain. There were two main reasons for...
Facade, Wood

United Kingdom | COLCHESTER
The ambition of the project for a new community building in the deprived St. Anne's area of Colchester was to create a...
Ecocentric, Wood

Switzerland | YVERDON-LES-BAINS
The Parc des Rives was once a marshy area often flooded by the waters of Lake Neuchâtel. After the level of the lake was...
Wood

Belgium | BRUSSELS
'The Cityscape must help us forget the past', said Charles Picqué, premier of the Brussels Region, referring to the way the...
Ecocentric, Wood