Wood Stories

Information about the industry, people and technology that make it a sustainable design option

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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. ...

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 ...

A 1917 White Pine monograph has 2.4K reads — nearly triple our next most popular issue.

Over a century ago, a group of architects gathered at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, to judge a design competition for ...