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DeeZeen.com recently profiled an “all-wood” commercial building in Portland, Oregon which claims to be the first commercial building in Oregon to “use mass timber construction for all components of the building”. Waechter Architecture completed that project.  The building, called Mississippi has structural elements made from cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels and glued-laminated timber (glulam) beams. Apart from […] The post Waechter Architecture completes “all-wood” building with steel jacket appeared first on NELMA.

A new article on DesignBoom features a newly constructed horse stable in Kyoto, Japan, called 2M26, designed by Umagoya. NELMA has profiled other horse barns, but this one strikes a gorgeous presence.  I want to live in it. The stable is made entirely of locally sourced wood and features traditional Japanese joinery techniques. The stable […] The post Locally-sourced wood and traditional Japanese joinery create beautiful horse stable appeared first on NELMA.

Architecture firm Worrell Yeung has designed a farm in upstate New York featuring a cluster of wood-clad buildings. The structures are arranged in a way that encourages interaction and communal living among residents and visitors. The design includes a barn, a main house, a guesthouse, and several smaller buildings for storage and workspace. Leverging the […] The post New York farm with collection of “cousin” wood-clad buildings appeared first on NELMA.

Tokyo-based firm Tono Mirai Architects recently completed a sustainable project named after a dumpling. The project is called Oyaki Farm, which is a sustainable agricultural facility located just outside the city of Nagano.  It comprises a cafe, a store, and various spaces to produce a local culinary specialty called oyaki, which is essentially a dumpling made […] The post Earth, Wood, and Dumplings appeared first on NELMA.

A new Bloomberg Green Timber Town series looks at the rise and climate-boosting potential of wood, something we’ve been saying for years.  But the rise of high-rise buildings and changing building codes to accommodate (and in some cases encourage) more use of wood products, has made our old friend a bit of a media darling. The […] The post Wood: The Breakout Star of Architecture appeared first on NELMA.

  “There’s a lot to be said for forward-thinking designs that aim to be flexible and adaptableso that in the near future, they might be more easily transformed for different uses or configurations. Such an approach might be implemented by redesigning larger structures as universal buildings so that they can serve a multitude of other uses, or […] The post The multi-verse of homes. appeared first on NELMA.

We’re obsessed with this article from Architectural Digest by Kyle Hoepner, as it beautifully explores architect’s creative and practical obsession with shingles and shakes (“their brawnier, split cousins”). Memorable quotes from the article: It may be that newly arrived colonists were influenced by the practices of local Indigenous peoples such as the Wampanoag in Massachusetts, […] The post Our obsession with wood shingles. appeared first on NELMA.

From DesignBoom. Nestled high in the Austrian Alps, the ‘Youth Hostel Gerlos’ by Salzburg-based design firm Lechner & Lechner Architects seamlessly blends with its surrounding landscape. Designed as an eco-friendly solution for schools organizing ski trips, the facility hosts various spaces dedicated to sports and leisure activities and forms a large public U-shaped square in the picturesque village of Hochkrimml. […] The post This wooden youth hostel looks amazing. appeared first on NELMA.

Dezeen.com just released an article about Norway architects Kolman Boye Architects who has completed a weekend retreat in Lillesand, Norway, with a facade made from offcuts of wooden flooring material. Architects Erik Kolman and Victor Boye, founders of Stockholm-based Kolman Boye, came up with the design after discovering that Danish flooring brand Dinesen had a large volume of […] The post Talk about nose to tail construction!  appeared first on NELMA.

RNZ (Radio New Zealand), has a news story out about wood being a construction industry darling when it comes to helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over high carbon materials like concrete and steel. In Switzerland, construction is underway on the world’s tallest residential building with a load-bearing structure in wood.  The 100-metre tall wooden […] The post Don’t call it a comeback. appeared first on NELMA.