Mass Timber Market Updates - September 2023 - Week Thirtyseven

Ready to jet-set around the world of mass timber construction from the comfort of your own home? Strap in and join us as we explore the latest, most exciting developments in the realm of eco-friendly architecture and design. We kick off our journey in Northern Europe, witnessing the birth of a green, biodiversity-focused educational facility spearheaded by Henning Larsen and WSP for the Oslo City Education Authority. This awe-inspiring structure, complete with wooden hybrid structures and green facades, promises to be a haven for learning. 

Next, we fly over to Perth, where the city council has just greenlit the construction of the world's tallest timber building. But our trip doesn't end there. We zoom over to New York, where the Architecture Research Office (ARO) has unveiled plans for an amazing cultural center at the Olana State Historic Site. Finally, we touch down in Ukraine, where Shigeru Ban's humanitarian architecture project uses mass timber products for a surgical wing building, supporting both local industry and the EU's commitment to sustainable building practices. Ready for a whirlwind adventure? Subscribe and join us on this riveting journey!

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And this week we have a very bigweek in mass Timber
construction land, and let'shave a look at what's making
news around the world this week.
And to the northern Europeanarea right now.
And Henning Larsen, working onthe Oslo City Education

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Authority in collaboration withWSP's new project.
This new community centricspace with a focus on
biodiversity and low carbon willbe an inspiring learning
environment for students.
The design of the uppersecondary school includes wooden
hybrid structures, low carbonconcrete, biobase materials and

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green facades and roofs toencourage biodiversity in the
dense urban setting.
Access to the outdoor area willprioritize by the main
community and networking areaand parks in the pedestrian
laneways which sit atop of thebuilding.
It will be due for opening in2025.

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The secondary school will housearound about 800 students and a
new college will also beestablished on the site.
Very, very, very great project.
If you want to go and have alook at it, please head to the
mass timber construction generalLinkedIn feed and you can see
more.
And we only recently reportedthat the South Perth Council was

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reviewing the GrangeDevelopment 51 story Timber
Tower.
Well, we are really pleased toannounce that, only about a week
or so later, that the timbertower hybrid timber tower in
Perth has been given approval.
Grange Development ManagingDirector James Dibble said that
the intent of the project wasalways being straightforward to

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create climate consciousdevelopment which was rooted in
science and engineering.
The panel just recentlyprovided the C6 with a new
benchmark of environmentallyconscious design and they are
immensely proud of their opensource approach to the
documentation, constructiondetailing and genuine wish list
for others to understand themethodology who have a

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possession of the blueprints toemulate, modify and progress the
building technique.
So the 51 story C6 Tower inPerth South City will be the
tallest timber building in theworld and heading to New York
now, and the architectureresearch office, the ARO, in

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partnership with the New Yorkstate office for parks,
recreation and historicpreservation and the Olana
partnership, has today revealedplans for the Frederick Church
Center for Arts and Landscape atthe Olana State Historic Site
in Upstate New York.
The new center is thecenterpiece of a larger master

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plan which was designed in 2015by Nelson Bird-Voltz landscape
architects.
The scheme includes arestoration of the famed Hudson
River School painter'sself-designed farm and homestead
, which was constructed in theproperty around about the 1860s
to 1900s.
Aro's center will serve as anew visitor's arrival gateway,

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overlooking the CAS skills range, and will provide the site's
historic core, ensuring that theexperience will be compatible
with the surrounding landscapeand the vistas that are beyond.
If you'd like to see more onthis amazing project, head to
the Mass Timber ConstructionJournal, linked in feed, and
there's some further detailsabout Shigaruban's humanitarian

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architecture project in theUkraine, as a paper for the
particular project now starts tocome more alive, I guess, with
more materials and design comingout.
The 25,000 square meter surgicalwing of the building will be
produced using mass timberproducts and Ban says that this

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is a good strategy, not only tosupport the local industry, but
to also support the EuropeanUnion's commitment to
sustainable building practices.
While the Ukraine has strictregulation when it comes to
using timber, which is similarto places like Japan, etc.
The EU has allowed for exposedtimber structures in this

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particular building, and ifyou'd like to see a model that
has been released it is quitebeautiful Head to the mass
timber construction general,linked in feed, and you'll be
able to see some more there.
So that's it, folks.
That's what's making newsaround the world this week.
In mass timber constructionland, we hope that you are
having a great week and we lookforward to bringing you more
news next week.

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