Wood SkyScrapers
  • Home
    • FORUM
  • Blog
  • Projects
    • Tall Wood Project Listings
    • Historic Tall Wood
  • Technologies
    • Building Systems
    • Cross Laminated Timber
    • Timber Concrete Composite
    • Glue Laminated Timber
    • Laminated Veneer Lumber
    • Other Technologies
  • About
    • Contact

Stories in the development of tall timber

ShigEru Ban Steps Into New TERRITORY With The World's Tallest Timber Hybrid Skyscraper in Vancouver 

16/7/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
Photo: Shigeru Ban via Vancity Buzz
Vancouver BC is quickly becoming a hot bed of the Mass Timber world. The city is already sporting the world's tallest hybrid timber skyscraper, UBC Brock Commons , but Shigeru Ban plans to push that even further as his firm takes on the skylines of the Pacific North West. 

The project details have not been fully released yet but briefings entail a hybrid building with the lower portion being conventionally constructed with concrete and steel. The upper 7 (or more) stories are designed in hybrid mass timber solutions. Mass timber was chosen to help reduce the eccentric mass at the top of the building during a seismic event. This allows the building to exhibit superior earthquake performance characteristics. 

In Shigeru Ban's refined style, the project is expected to exemplify elegance of materials and purity of connections. This engineering feat sees a amazing combination of international architects & engineers meeting with local knowledge and abilities to produce a one off masterpiece. The project is expected to host Douglas Fir glulam as a key feature of West Coast style, strength and local sustainability. 

​We look forward to more developed press releases and final project details to form, fit and height. 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    January 2022
    November 2017
    May 2017
    September 2016
    July 2016
    April 2016
    October 2015
    September 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014

    Categories

    All
    Africa
    Asia
    Australia
    Austria
    Canada
    CLT
    Competition
    Concept
    Concrete Composite Timber
    Europe
    Fibre
    Finland
    France
    New Buildings
    News
    Norway
    Regulation
    Resources
    Sweden
    Tools
    United Kingdom
    USA

    RSS Feed

Picture



© WoodSkyscrapers 2014

Contact    About