Wood Stories

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

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 ...

The Only Material That Already Belongs

Every building material makes an argument about where it comes from. Concrete says it came from industry. Steel says it came from somewhere far away ...

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 ...

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 — ...