Wood architecture
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Timber tower: Finland's first wooden high-rise wins the Wood PrizeAn energy-efficient trio of multi-storey timber-frame flats in the Jyväskylä suburb of Kuokkala have won this year's Wood Prize, awarded by Finland's Wood Information Centre.
By Ali Morris Last updated
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Hot stuff: a Chilean house draws on its volcanic landscapeBy Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Into the woods: a timber-clad Swiss home brings the outside inBy Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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WISA Wooden Design Hotel, HelsinkiBy Melina Keays Last updated
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A new Wenzhou concept store for menswear label Atelier by Fapai makes use of China’s discarded woodBy Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Playfully transparent roof defines German Glass House escapeThe Glass House by Sigurd Larsen, set amid nature outside Berlin, is an unconventional country home with a distinctive transparent roof
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Highlands house gets a radical extensionWe celebrate Brown & Brown Architects' elevating intervention at a traditional Highlands house in Scotland
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Aslak Haanshuus Arkitekter designs a forest-facing villa in NorwayBy Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Pettanco House is a live/work space that showcases fine Japanese carpentryBy Sara Sturges Last updated
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Right angle: we pine for this timber cabin in NorwayBy Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Optimise your living space with this modular Finnish cabin designA collaboration between architecture studio Puisto and design companies Made By Choice and Protos Demos, Space of Mind is a contemporary modular Finnish cabin providing a much needed opportunity to pause, think and make the most of our home experience
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Wave House by Seppo Mäntylä is a Finnish log house with a twistBy Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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A timber house in a Japanese forest brings a couple closer to their familyA couple's new home in a forest in Okayama, next door to their family, has been designed by Osaka based architect Tsubasa Iwahashi with equal parts of togetherness and independence
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Corten protects a family house from the extreme environment of Chilean PatagoniaBy Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Atelier Ordinaire's French countryside retreat challenges typologiesA holiday home with tailor made interiors pieces by Stattmann Furniture balances between a boutique, private retreat and a larger group escape in the French countryside, courtesy of Strasbourg-based architecture studio, and alumn, Atelier Ordinaire
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Touch wood: A449 Architects convert a 1930s Scottish bungalowBy Caroline Ednie Last updated
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Best Music Venue: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021The Floating Music Hub in Cape Verde, by NLÉ, scoops
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Davide Macullo’s artistic timber house in the Swiss AlpsIn a small village in Switzerland architect Davide Macullo has created an artistic response to the landscape through architecture with a timber house, a new addition to his Swisshouse series of houses in the Calanca Valley
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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A modern villa hides in Soulac-sur-Mer's peaceful pine forestsA minimalist wooden villa in the French west coast is inspired by Modernist houses and Brazilian architecture, explains its architect, Paris based Nicolas Dahan
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Wood Awards 2021 winners: limber use of timber in architecture and designFrom smart products and bespoke commissions to private homes and cultural buildings, we present the Wood Awards 2021 winners
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Partisans creates an undulating Ontario guest houseAn undulating wooden structure makes for a striking guest house, designed by Canadian architecture studio Partisans, in the grounds of a Southern Ontario home
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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1960s bungalow renovation cuts cinematic dash in BelgiumHouse BPB, created by Belgian architect David Bulckaen, is the imaginative reintepretation of a 1960s bungalow into a dark, mysterious, contemporary house inspired by the movie A Single Man
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Minecraft inspires architects to design real-world modular cabinThe Minecraft egaming phenomenon has prompted architects JaK Studio to design HOM3 – a modular cabin for flexible use, inspired by Minecraft house ideas
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Twin Chilean cabins win Best Retreat: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021Cabañas Maralto, a duo of holiday cabins in Chile designed by Croxatto & Opazo, scoop a Wallpaper* Design Award 2021
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Saunders Arkitektur designs masterful modernist micro-houseNorway-based practice Saunders Arkitektur crafts finely detailed prefabricated cabin on the Bergen docks, launching hand-crafted, modernist micro-house
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Chilean seaside cabin becomes dream retreat for four familiesA cross between a beach hut and a cabin, Casa El Gauchal – designed by Iván Bravo, Martín Rojas and Gino León – is four families' private retreat in Chile
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Haringey home’s crafted glazed extension makes it glowThis north London house redesign by architect Satish Jassal adds a timber-framed, glazed extension to a Haringey family home, making it glow like a lantern
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated


