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Surround Students In Wood

In Freeport, Maine, students and researchers now gather in a building that was designed to do more than shelter them — it was designed to ...
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The Best Classroom Is the Building Itself

Last fall, Smith College opened Kathleen McCartney Hall — a 15,000-square-foot mass timber hub on its Frederick Law Olmsted–designed campus in Northampton, Massachusetts. Designed by ...
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Architecture

See The Stamp. Trust The Quality – Part 1 of 3

What Your Grade Stamp Is Actually Telling You. Part 1 of 3: How Lumber Gets Graded This is the first in a three-part series from ...
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When NELMA Students Designed the Moon Base We’re Now Building

In 2018, NELMA challenged architecture and design students to imagine a lunar colony built with wood. At the time, it read like creative speculation — ...
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Building Tomorrow’s Architects: Why Student Design Competitions Matter for the Lumber Industry

The lumber industry has long supplied the raw material for civilization — framing homes, shaping skylines, furnishing interiors. But raw material alone doesn’t drive innovation. ...
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Board & Batten Siding — Eastern White Pine Manufacturers Should Be Paying Attention

For a siding style rooted in practicality — wide boards nailed to barn frames, with narrow strips sealing the gaps against a New England winter ...
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Surround Students In Wood

In Freeport, Maine, students and researchers now gather in a building ...

The Best Classroom Is the Building Itself

Last fall, Smith College opened Kathleen McCartney Hall — a 15,000-square-foot ...

See The Stamp. Trust The Quality – Part 1 of 3

What Your Grade Stamp Is Actually Telling You. Part 1 of ...

When NELMA Students Designed the Moon Base We’re Now Building

In 2018, NELMA challenged architecture and design students to imagine a ...

Building Tomorrow’s Architects: Why Student Design Competitions Matter for the Lumber Industry

The lumber industry has long supplied the raw material for civilization ...

Board & Batten Siding — Eastern White Pine Manufacturers Should Be Paying Attention

For a siding style rooted in practicality — wide boards nailed ...