Daria Sheina Studio has designed The Nest, an off-grid cabin with cedar-wrapped rotated volumes that allow panoramic views of the Howe Sound off the coast of British Columbia. More about Daria Sheina Studio designs off-grid British Columbia cabin
Local practice Estúdio Rossi Arquitetos has completed a house with a glued-laminated timber structure on the coast of São Paolo that opens to the surrounding landscape through multiple screens and brise soleil. More about Estúdio Rossi Arquitetos "transforms memory into architecture" at Brazilian beach house
Local studio Nitsche Arquitetos has completed a modular, cross-laminated timber house with a rectangular dogtrot-style plan outside of São Paulo, Brazil. More about Nitsche Arquitetos focuses on "broad adaptability" for modular house in Brazil
An exposed mass-timber structure designed to resemble a tree gives a "distinct architectural identity" to this Harvard University student centre, designed by American architecture firm Studio Gang. More about Studio Gang exposes mass-timber structure of Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard
Tariffs up to 25 per cent on kitchen cabinets, lumber and some upholstered furniture objects are now in effect in the US, following a proclamation released in late September by the Trump Administration. More about US furniture, cabinet and lumber tariffs go into effect
Danish architecture studio BIG has revealed plans for a mass-timber, riverside conference centre in Rouen, France, with a swooping roof. More about BIG designs The Sail conference centre in Normandy
Amazon has completed a mass timber warehouse in Indiana, USA, which the company says will be used as a testbed for "over 40 sustainability strategies" to implement in existing and future buildings. More about Amazon to use mass-timber warehouse in Indiana to test "sustainability strategies"
Irish studio Grafton Architects and US practice Modus Studio have completed a mass-timber building topped with an angular roof for the University of Arkansas's architecture and design school. More about Grafton Architects completes first mass-timber building for University of Arkansas
Local developer Neutral has stated that construction on its mass-timber Edison skyscraper in Milwaukee, which it claims will be the "world's tallest", has been halted due to rising tariffs. More about Neutral says tariffs behind construction pause at "world's tallest mass-timber building"
Wood is paired with mirrored panels on the exterior of a research building for biotech company Adimab, which was designed by Sylvia Richards Practice for Architecture to blend with its forested setting and preserve a wetland. More about Sylvia Richards combines timber with mirrors for "supernatural" effect in New Hampshire
The government of Canada has launched Build Canada Homes, a federal agency that will leverage public-private partnership "to build affordable housing at scale and at speed" in order to address the country's housing crisis. More about Canada launches nationwide home building agency focused on mass timber
Mass timber framing and live-edge cedar siding are among the elements used by the founders of Brooklyn studio nArchitects to create a lake house for themselves in the Hudson Valley. More about nArchitects finishes CLT House with "cladding technique used by early settlers"
Following a fire at dance centre Jacob's Pillow in 2020, Dutch architecture studio Mecanoo has completed the Doris Duke Theatre on the Massachusetts, USA campus, with a design guided by Indigenous principles. More about Mecanoo completes "magic wooden box" theatre at Jacob's Pillow in Massachusetts
Architecture studios NADAAA and HDR have expanded the architecture school at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, creating a rectangular volume framed with mass timber and lined with translucent panels that bring in natural light. More about NADAAA and HDR utilise mass timber for Nebraska architecture school addition
Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has completed Valckensteyn in Rotterdam, a mass-timber block of affordable apartments that references the area's iconic post-war social housing. More about Rotterdam's first mass-timber apartment building is homage to its post-war housing blocks
Panelised building components made of mass timber were used to construct a residential building by SuperLA, a design and development firm that views "homes as products" rather than bespoke architectural projects. More about SuperBungalows in Los Angeles "radically reconsiders" housing
American studio S9 Architecture has completed a building for The Cleveland Foundation that features warm cedar cladding, large windows and a post-and-beam structural system made of mass timber. More about S9 Architecture goes heavy on timber for Ohio non-profit headquarters
This year's US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale explores porches as an archetype of American architecture, with a zigzagging mass-timber canopy forming a shelter outside its neoclassical building. More about Mass timber forms "contemporary porch" at US Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale
Design studio Rios has presented an installation made of timber panels for the International Mass Timber Conference in Oregon, USA, to demonstrate the "innovative potential of mass timber construction". More about Rios creates "spiraling timber coil" Campfire installation from reclaimed wood
American architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has unveiled designs for a building at Boston University that is set to be the tallest mass-timber structure in the Northeast United States. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro designs "monolithic" mass-timber building for Boston University