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)
• Stadthaus in Murray Grove – The (currently) tallest wooden building in London. (E)
• Norman Foster – Architect of the Chesa Futura in St. Moritz. (E)
• Savill Garden – Shell as entry pavillion to The Royal Landscape. (E)
• Wood Awards – British awards for wood building and furniture. Typically awarded in October. (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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1. Allen Rand says:

   May 22, 2008 at 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.

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