Timber Engineering Reference - Modern Structures

Modern timber structures and publications about them.

Europe:

Austria

• MPreis - Amazing, modern wood architecture for shopping centres in Austria. (G)

France:

• Le Bois Avance - Sizeable collection of pamphlets on modern wood architecture. (F)

Germany:

• Infoholz - Gebaute Beispiele - Recent and EXPO 2000 wooden buildings of various kind. Also home of the German Wood Award. (G)
• Holzbauten - Current wood structures from Holz.de. (G)
• Detail - German architecture magazine. Every few issues there is one on wood. (G,E,F)

Italy:

• Renzo Piano - Architect of the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center and others. (E)

Switzerland:

• Traversiner Steg - Second iteration of a wood bridge in the Viamala region. Amazing structure and exemplary documentation. (G)

UK:

• Downland Gridshell - Documentation of the construction process for this shell. (E)
• Norman Foster - Architect of the Chesa Futura in St. Moritz. (E)
• Savill Garden - Shell as entry pavillion to The Royal Landscape. (E)

Americas:

Canada:

• CWC Building Examples - Building examples from the CWC. (E)
• CWC Case Studies - Case studies from the Canadian Wood Council. (E)
• Condominium Construction Inquiry- This is an official 1998 inquiry into the "Leaky condo" issue - building envelope failures in Vancouver, BC. (E)
• Wood Design Awards - Home of the North American Wood Design Awards. (E,F)
• Wood Design Magazine - Publishes exemplary wood architecture from NA. See Magazine Rack for details. (E,F)

USA:

• APA - APA publishes a large list of case study reports of engineered wood uses. Look under publications. (E)
• Fab Prefab - The recently resuscitated prefab movement spawned this site: A collection of commercially available mostly modernist pre-fabricated houses. (E)
• Single Family Residential Construction Guide - From McVicker Associates, Half Moon Bay, CA. (E)
• Shear Wall Basics - From McVicker Associates, Half Moon Bay, CA. (E)
• This Old House - TV show companion site related to light-framing, millwork and renovation. Shows current renovation projects. (E)

Asia:

Australia/Oceania:

Africa:

Language of linked site: G - German, E - English, S - Spanish, P - Portuguese, F - French, I - Italian, H - Hungarian, Nl - Dutch, Fi - Finnish, Sw - Swedish, R - Russian, C - Chinese, J - Japanese, K - Korean

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Comment from Allen Rand |
Time: May 22, 2008, 15:22

UK:

The Savill Building
http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/landscape/savillbuilding/index.cfm

A timber gridshell much like the Weald & Downland, but bigger. Not too surprising, it’s by the same engineers - Buro Happold - and carpenters - Green Oak Carpentry Company.