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Ten significant mass-timber buildings that changed the way we think about wood

April 3, 2023 Nat Barker 0

As our Timber Revolution series comes to an end, we round up the 10 significant buildings that have pushed the use of mass-timber. Starting with a small housing scheme built in rural Austria in the late 1990s and ending with an 87-metre tower completed in the USA last year, the buildings profiled in the series chart the

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Curtains for minimalism as John Pawson goes maximalist

April 1, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Minimalist British designer John Pawson has ditched his pared-back aesthetic in favour of full-blown maximalism, Dezeen understands. Pawson, who is not an architect, had become famous for his minimalist designs and was awarded a CBE in 2019. But a source close to Pawson informed Dezeen that he has now embraced bold colours, clashing patterns and

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Dezeen’s top five houses of March 2023

March 31, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Dezeen’s top five Houses of the month for March 2023 include a snake-like dwelling in India and a converted 19th-century school in southern Italy. A brutalist holiday home in a Mexican forest, a minimalist residence in Massachusetts and a Vietnamese family home with a massive roof complete the list. This roundup is the latest instalment in

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Eight bedrooms featuring regal four-poster beds

March 25, 2023 Nat Barker 0

There’s no symbol of luxury more universal than the four-poster bed. In this lookbook, we select eight bedrooms elevated by their presence. Beds with vertical columns in each corner supporting an upper panel date back to the medieval period. Originally built with wraparound curtains to keep out the cold and provide privacy, they have historically

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Mass timber “definitely not the right way to go” says Benjamin Kromoser

March 23, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Mass timber will not become a mainstream building product because it uses too much wood, construction material expert Benjamin Kromoser claims in this interview for the Timber Revolution. “If we go more in the direction of mass-timber buildings we don’t have enough material, so the idea of scaling it up in the near future will

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Fire safety expert “extremely concerned” about mass-timber buildings

March 22, 2023 Nat Barker 0

World-leading fire safety expert José Torero has told Dezeen he is “extremely concerned” about mass-timber buildings being constructed around the world. As part of a feature on fire safety, Torero claimed that a lack of consistency in the competency of people designing and constructing mass-timber buildings runs the risk of a “catastrophic” fire event. “My concern

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Are mass-timber buildings a fire safety risk?

March 22, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Architects enthusiastic about mass timber must improve their understanding of fire safety or risk disaster, experts tell Dezeen as part of the Timber Revolution series. Uncertainty among governments and insurers over whether mid- and high-rise timber buildings are safe in a fire remains a key obstacle to the greater adoption of engineered-wood buildings. No consensus

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“Forests could be at the heart of our society again” says Joe Giddings

March 21, 2023 Nat Barker 0

We should be aiming for the future depicted in the Timber Revolution logo with a combination of mid- and high-rise mass-timber buildings interspersed with trees, argues ACAN co-founder Joe Giddings in this interview. “My vision is in some ways aligned to that illustration,” Giddings said of the artwork produced for the series by Yo Hosoyamada (top).

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BTZ laboratory at TU Graz was the early home of mass-timber research

March 14, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Next in our Timber Revolution series, we profile a university laboratory by Austrian studio Nussmüller Architekten that was conceived as both an advert and a testing centre for the capabilities of mass timber. Built at the turn of the millennium, the Bau Technik Zentrum (BTZ), which translates as the Construction Technology Centre, was commissioned to

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Eight residential interiors with sociable split-level living areas

February 26, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Our latest lookbook collects eight homes that feature split-level living areas, from a humble apartment in Mexico to a vast brutalist-style house in Bali. Split-level areas are often seen in residential homes, where architects separate different spaces using short flights of steps to make interiors feel expansive and interesting, whatever their size. Listed below are

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