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

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    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.
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    PLP Architecture
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    PLP Architecture is working on a hyperboloid timber tower in Holland.
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    The glass tower would be wrapped in latticed wood, which acts as a load-bearing brace.
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    The latticed slats from the interior.
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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.
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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.
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    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.
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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.
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    The Oakwood Tower from a distance.
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    Anders Berensson Architects
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    Anders Berensson Architects' Trätoppen is a proposed timber tower in Stockholm.
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