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The winter edition of Timberdesign is out this month and full of the usual great material.
Bonus Feature
The Winter Issue also includes a special 16-page feature on American hardwoods, including:
A precedent-setting example of advanced wood engineering and prefabrication may never have got off the ground if it had not been for a massive beetle infestation of Canadian forests.
The Richmond Olympic Oval (above) was the signature structure for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games – featuring a timber roof and its application to a building of such size that it projected British Columbia on to the world stage of wood design and fabrication.
Architects should be taking a leaf out of the doctors’ book and use ‘triage’ as a means of addressing the problems of the profession as it relates to climate change, according to Canadian designer Michael Green.
“Triage asks us to tackle the most serious issues first and then work our way to the less significant. Triaging buildings means to look at the impact of the materials and the energy consumed during construction and during the life of the building first.
A discovery by famous British practice Hopkins Architects when researching ideas for Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies had a profound influence on the final design.
Looking in the university’s plans room for drawings for such important buildings as Louis Kahn’s art gallery, project director Mike Taylor and Sir Michael Hopkins found Yale had its own forests in New England.
The result (opened in 2009) is a stone masonry building lined with timber from the university’s own trees.
Successfully addressing two dominant views of the New Zealand countryside with equal importance prompted the architect for this project to fly something of a ‘kite’.
Two simple but richly detailed wings form the basis of this house, sited on an idyllic vantage point overlooking Lake Rotokauri in the Waikato region just north of Hamilton.
Timber construction has been on the back foot in Australia’s Northern Territory since Cyclone Tracy flattened 70% of Darwin’s buildings and killed 71 people in 1974. But a more enlightened approach to the city’s steel and concrete-dominated structures is now being called for.
Among the most vocal advocates for more locally sourced wood and the return of the carpenter to the Far North is Greg McNamara of Troppo Architects, whose office designed the recently completed second stage of the Darwin Entertainment Centre (DEC) – the city’s primary concert venue.
Now working on a major mall extension with a “significant timber component” around a steel mainframe, McNamara is disappointed in government generally, and with developers.
