Monday, June 11, 2012

Building with wood: What is old is new again...


Heddal Stave Church, Notodden, Telemark, Norway, early 13th Century
It is amazing a wood structure like that is still around, seven hundred years later...
Metropol Parasol, Seville, Spain, 2011
Largest wood structure in the world



Glenn Reynolds has an interesting link to a NYT Science article on new engineered wood products out of Austria that are allowing architects and engineers to push wood well beyond its traditional structural limitations.  These could be the skyscrapers of the future.

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