Cosmic ADU is a "self-powered home" that uses no fossil fuels
US startup Cosmic has created a solar-powered accessory dwelling unit that is built using a special construction process and generates far more electricity than it needs. More
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Precht creates four cartoonish "treehouses" for Austrian restaurant
Shingles and large round windows animate the four tubular Bert dwellings that architecture studio Precht has crafted from bent cross-laminated timber in Austrian woodland. More
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Johan Sundberg Arkitektur designs timber barn on a historic Swedish farm
Swedish practice Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has designed a timber barn on a historic farm in Skåne, southern Sweden, that was created to be used as anything from storage and workshop space to a games room. More
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Kirkland Fraser Moor tops chalk-walled house with CLT arch
UK studio Kirkland Fraser Moor has created a contemporary house named Ashraya in Hertfordshire, England, which is topped by a cross-laminated timber arch. More
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Powerhouse Company designs serene mass-timber lecture hall for Tilburg University
Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has unveiled its design for the Netherlands' first mass-timber university building — a square lecture hall that references modernist and monastic architecture. More
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Bennetts Associates creates cross-laminated timber sports hall in King's Cross
UK studio Bennetts Associates has used cross-laminated timber and glulam to create the lightweight King's Cross Sports Hall, which is currently being used as the Construction Skills Centre. More
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CO Adaptive Architecture converts Gowanus foundry into flexible theatre spaces
Brooklyn studio CO Adaptive Architecture has renovated an industrial building in the New York borough's Gowanus neighbourhood to create bright and spacious theatre rehearsal spaces. More
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Massive timber panels form public art installation by CLB Architects
US firm CLB Architects has completed a public art project for the town of Jackson, Wyoming, that is intended to be "a gathering place that also functions as a sculptural art installation". More
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Register for our Architecture Project Talk about Bert by Precht
Architect Chris Precht presented Bert, a modular timber house, in this Architecture Project Talk presented by Dezeen in partnership with the Forest Stewardship Council. Register to rewatch the webinar. More
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Tetris and Sangberg design senior housing around a covered communal courtyard
A grid of thin cross-laminated timber columns frames communal spaces at the centre of this co-living project for senior citizens in Slagelse, Denmark, a collaboration between Danish developer Tetris and Copenhagen architecture practice Sangberg. More
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Ten homes with exposed cross-laminated timber interiors
For our latest lookbook, we've collected 10 interior projects that feature exposed cross-laminated timber, from a 1980s housing block in Germany to a cosy Finnish cabin. More
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The Dezeen guide to mass timber in architecture
Thinking of using engineered timber in your project? Our latest Dezeen guide includes the most regularly used types of mass timber including CLT, glulam and dowel-laminated timber. More
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"Largest wooden building in Iceland" to occupy landfill site in Reykjavík
Architecture studios Jakob+MacFarlane and T.ark have designed a low-carbon cross-laminated timber building called Living Landscape that will transform a landfill site in Iceland's capital city. More
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New York approves use of cross-laminated timber for six-storey buildings
The New York City Council has approved the use of mass timber for the construction of buildings of up to 85 feet tall in the city. More
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White Arkitekter unveils "carbon negative" skyscraper and cultural centre in Sweden
Architecture studio White Arkitekter has completed Sara Kulturhus Centre, a timber development featuring the world's second-tallest wooden tower, which it claims will be carbon negative over its lifetime. More
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Co-working
Co-working
Squire and Partners uses mass timber to add co-working facility to its London office
Architecture studio Squire and Partners has added a co-working facility to its own London office, in a new building framed by cross-laminated timber. More
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Alison Brooks Architects unveils mass timber entrance block for Cambridge college
A three-storey cross-laminated timber and glulam pavilion designed by London studio Alison Brooks Architects is set to be built as the entrance to Homerton College at the University of Cambridge in England. More
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Wooden residential tower in Rotterdam by Mei Architects delayed due to "explosively high" timber prices
Construction of SAWA, Rotterdam's first wooden residential tower, has been put on hold due to a shortage of timber and other construction materials. More
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MGA creates mass timber buildings for forestry college in Oregon
Canadian firm Michael Green Architecture used materials such as mass plywood panels and cross-laminated timber to construct two mass timber buildings at an Oregon university. More
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Advances in digital design and mass timber are leading us to "a new Bauhaus"
The combination of digital technology and mass timber is revolutionising the way we design and build buildings, according to the panellists of our recent talk with Dassault Systèmes. More
