The world needs Swedish timber
Future prospects in both the EU Single Market and in the US look good for the Swedish wood products industry.
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Flexible office block has unique identity
ARTICLE Office block with curved green façade panels inspired by the sea.
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Moisture content creates new opportunities
ARTICLE While the last generation of ‘timmermän’ in the 1920s were still building cottages, cabins and farmhouses from logs in rural Sweden, engineers on the continent were experimenting with glulam and shell structures.
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Innovations creating a paradigm shift
OPINION PIECE: Carmen Izquierdo, architect SAR, MSA/arquitecto COAM on how innovations can create a paradigm shift.
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Wooden hall for visions and knowledge
ARTICLE The sophisticated Wisdome Stockholm extension has now discreetly settled into Tekniska Museet’s yard.
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Tree trunks and rounded shapes in new frame
ARTICLE An office block that was considered exemplary in the 1970s has now been updated for the modern age using softly rounded forms.
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How will the industry verify and utilise the freedom it as?
INTERVIEW The Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning plans to launch its new ‘Building Regulations of Opportunity’.
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Sara Kulturhus, one of the world’s tallest mass timber buildings, wins the Swedish Wood Award 2024
The winner of the Swedish Wood Award 2024 was announced at the Wood Award Gala last month, and the prize went to Sara Kulturhus in Skellefteå – a local landmark that has garnered international attention for its sheer innovation, which has advanced the cause of wood construction no end. Every four years, industry body Swedish Wood presents the award to a building in Sweden that represents good architecture in wood and that reflects the times we live in.
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Housing with a focus on simplicity and socialising
ARTICLE A few years ago, a vision of a future society was realised in the southern German town of Bad Aibling.
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Vilka är de största utmaningarna med att återbruka byggmaterial?
Swedish property company Fabege wants to significantly scale up the amount of materials the construction sector reuses, which is why the company has opened a reuse hub.