20 September 2021

The World’s First Chief Design Officer Looks To a Carbon-Neutral Future

Hanna Harris, City of Helsinki

The City of Helsinki, Finland is frequently cited as one of the world’s most livable cities. In an effort to maintain its livability far into...

20 September 2021

The Zero-Carbon Hybrid Future of Tall Timber

Craig Applegath, Craig Applegath & Thomas Wu, DIALOG

A patent-pending Hybrid Timber Floor System (HTFS), with a prefabricated composite floor panel, offers significant advantages over traditional building technology. It is capable of clear...

17 September 2021

Meet the CTBUH: Future Timber City Steering Committee Chair

The Council published an interview with Jeff Spiritos, Steering Committee Chair, Future Timber City research project and Principal, Spiritos Properties LLC.

19 May 2021

Is All-Timber Superior for Building Tall?

Kevin Flanagan, Kevin P. Flanagan Architects/ Masterplanners; Rainer Strauch, CREE GmbH

In recent years, interest in timber as a primary construction material for tall buildings has accelerated, and the list of completed projects has grown ever...

12 January 2021

Ascending Timber Aspiration in Milwaukee

Tim Gokhman, New Land Enterprises

As developers’ appetites for building tall with mass timber grows, acceptance of the technique is growing among approving authorities, which in turn, allows the height...

23 September 2020

Robustness Design For Tall Timber Buildings

Konstantinos Voulpiotis & Andrea Frangi, ETH Zurich

With the ever-increasing height of timber buildings, the complexity of timber as a structural material gives rise to behaviors not previously studied by engineers. An...

23 September 2020

The Tall Building Strategically Reconsidered— Seattle 2030: The Post-Crisis Tower

Ro Shroff, 3MIX

The current perception of a post-COVID world is highly divisive and despairing. The “death of the tall building” is touted by prognosticators as a fait...