Earth, Wood, and Dumplings

Tokyo-based firm Tono Mirai Architects recently completed a sustainable project named after a dumpling. The project is called Oyaki Farm, which is a sustainable agricultural facility located just outside the city of Nagano.  It comprises a cafe, a store, and various...

Wood: The Breakout Star of Architecture

A new Bloomberg Green Timber Town series looks at the rise and climate-boosting potential of wood, something we’ve been saying for years.  But the rise of high-rise buildings and changing building codes to accommodate (and in some cases encourage) more use of wood...

The multi-verse of homes.

  “There’s a lot to be said for forward-thinking designs that aim to be flexible and adaptableso that in the near future, they might be more easily transformed for different uses or configurations. Such an approach might be implemented by redesigning larger structures...

Our obsession with wood shingles.

We’re obsessed with this article from Architectural Digest by Kyle Hoepner, as it beautifully explores architect’s creative and practical obsession with shingles and shakes (“their brawnier, split cousins”). Memorable quotes from the article: It may be that newly...