May 30, 2017 8:00 AM

Gallery: Get Ready for Skyscrapers Made of Wood. (Yes, Wood)

Perkins + Will
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The River Beech Tower is a conceptual wooden skyscraper that's 80 stories tall.
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The building is built from two towers that are connected by an atrium, which provides stability.

PLP Architecture
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PLP Architecture is working on a hyperboloid timber tower in Holland.
PLP Architecture
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The glass tower would be wrapped in latticed wood, which acts as a load-bearing brace.

PLP Architecture
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The latticed slats from the interior.
Michael Green Architecture
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Michael Green Architecture built T3, a seven story building in Minneapolis. It's currently the largest wooden building in the U.S.

Forestry Innovation Investment
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Brock Commons, a dormitory at the University of British Columbia, is currently the tallest wooden building in the world at 18 stories.
Seagate Structures
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Most interior structural systems are built with steel and concrete slabs. Here is the timber interior of Brock Commons, which was designed by Acton Ostry Architects.

PLP Architecture
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PLP Architecture worked with the University of Cambridge's Center for Natural Material Innovation to conceptualize another 80 story tower in London called Oakwood Tower.
PLP Architecture
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The Oakwood Tower from a distance.

Anders Berensson Architects
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Anders Berensson Architects' Trätoppen is a proposed timber tower in Stockholm.

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