Concrete And Steel Out,

wood and glass in,

 is the new movement, using wood made into cross laminated timber, (also known as massive timber), is now seen as the material to replace steel and concrete, as it is said to reduce waste and create a more aesthetically-pleasing environment, the process involves sticking pieces of soft wood together like putting lego blocks together, as Vox detailed: Mass timber is a generic term that encompasses products of various sizes and functions, like glue-laminated (glulam) beams, laminated veneer lumber (LVL), nail-laminated timber (NLT), and dowel-laminated timber (DLT). But the most common and most familiar form of mass timber, the one that has opened up the most new architectural possibilities, is cross-laminated timber (CLT), slabs of wood this large can match or exceed the performance of concrete and steel. CLT can be used to make floors, walls, ceilings — entire buildings. The world’s tallest mass timber structure, at 18 stories and over 280 feet, was recently built in Norway; there’s an 80-story wooden tower proposed for Chicago,

 the photographs are from a project called Carbon 12 at 12 NE Fremont Street, Portland, Oregon 97212, at 85 feet tall, Carbon12 is the tallest mass timber and cross-laminated timber building in the country, I wonder of this type of building will become the norm?