Wood Stories

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

Framing Studs as Design

Search “exposed structure” in architecture coverage right now and the results are almost uniformly mass timber. A few examples: Fraser/Livingstone Architects left the structural timber ...

Wood: Making High-Performance Homes Palatable

Strip away the marketing and a high-performance house is a machine: heat pumps, solar arrays, continuous air barriers, triple-glazed everything. Builders are getting remarkably good ...

Imagine This in the Northeast

A mid-size Czech city just built multi-story rental housing out of timber, on a budget, on schedule, for the first time in the country’s history. ...

You Can’t Print a Forest

Plant a single species in rows, on a schedule, at a set density, and you’re not growing a forest — you’re manufacturing one. Eastern white ...

Small Footprint, Full Warmth: Eastern White Pine Anchors a Portland Studio

When Jesse and Betsy went looking for more space on their Portland, Maine property, zoning gave them one option: build on the same long, narrow ...

Mass Timber Gets the Press. Light-Frame Does the Work.

Walk through any architecture publication right now and wood construction means one thing: mass timber. Cross-laminated panels, exposed glulam beams, landmark buildings photographed at golden ...