Wood architecture
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Timber tower: Finland's first wooden high-rise wins the Wood Prize
An 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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Coffey Architects redesigns an apartment in a former school house in London
Timber tricks and decluttering techniques characterise this clever Clerkenwell conversion
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Hot stuff: a Chilean house draws on its volcanic landscape
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Into the woods: a timber-clad Swiss home brings the outside in
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Kengo Kuma’s hen house in Mexico rules the roost
The latest architectural addition to the Casa Wabi Foundation is a chicken coop like no other
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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WISA Wooden Design Hotel, Helsinki
By 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 wood
By Laura Hawkins • Last updated
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Playfully transparent roof defines German Glass House escape
The 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 extension
We celebrate Brown & Brown Architects' elevating intervention at a traditional Highlands house in Scotland
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Pettanco House is a live/work space that showcases fine Japanese carpentry
By Sara Sturges • Last updated
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Writer’s cabin in Madrid offers room of one’s own
The Writer’s Cabin in north Madrid juxtaposes curving wooden bookshelves against the simple lines of the frame
By Hannah Silver • Last updated
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Right angle: we pine for this timber cabin in Norway
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Matteo Thun’s latest design in Switzerland blends tradition and modernity
A private house in the Swiss mountains, designed by Milanese architect Matteo Thun, bridges traditional typologies of the region with a modern aesthetic and the latest home technologies
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Optimise your living space with this modular Finnish cabin design
A 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 twist
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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A timber house in a Japanese forest brings a couple closer to their family
A 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 Patagonia
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Atelier Ordinaire's French countryside retreat challenges typologies
A 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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Best Music Venue: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021
The 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 Alps
In 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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Explore Guillermo Acuña's modern interpretation of a traditional Chilean lodge
Riñihue House by Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados is an ode to timber construction, as well as a picturesque retreat in the leafy countryside of Chile
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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A modern villa hides in Soulac-sur-Mer's peaceful pine forests
A 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 design
From 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 house
An 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 Belgium
House 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 cabin
The 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 2021
Cabañas 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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