Wood is the ultimate material - it’s renewable, sequesters carbon and more importantly, it’s buildable. Nevertheless wood is rarely used in tall, vertical construction. Now reThink wood has come out with their Tall Wood Survey (available in full on their website), which surveyed over 50 wood experts to explore three main areas in which wood is usually questioned: financing, insurance and performance.
But beyond discussing the pros and cons of wood, the survey also highlights 10 projects that show how wood products are being used in ways you never thought existed. See all ten innovative projects, after the break.
Though the area's current zoning laws limit building height to 35 feet, LG obtained a variance in 2012 that essentially cleared the way for construction on the 490,000-square-foot building to begin.
The new building could accommodate up to 1,600 LG employees by 2020. 
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In LG's version, the headquarters will be slightly visible above the treeline. The structure will not be white, as the opposition shows, but will instead be made out of glass. 
LG is currently in the demolition phase of its 490,000-square-foot construction project.
These days the Bushes live in Dallas, also home to the 
The former first lady notes that when she was growing up in Midland, Texas, her father built spec houses—"one story and low to the ground, a style you saw a lot in the ’50s and ’60s." She and Mr. Bush had a similar type of residence in mind for Crawford, mainly, she explains, "because we wanted the house to fit into the landscape." And she means fit literally. Heymann’s design carefully nestled a single-level, three-bedroom limestone structure and an adjacent two-suite guesthouse into an almost imperceptible rise amid an existing grove of live oaks and cedar elms.
The plan also calls for a "green belt"— a massive park built on the airport's former runways.
2. Architects at Mccreanor Lavington envision remediating the airport's contaminated grounds and planting trees. They would also build a technology campus, civic center, and retail hub at Heathrow's Terminal 2.
3. Rick Mather Architects suggests using the former runways to divide the city into different sections based on specializations like education and leisure. 
The proposal calls for a "medieval" city center made of existing buildings and new construction.
Built at an unprecedented scale for Caracas at the time, the reinforced concrete complex was destined for success: it was exhibited as a triumph of modernist design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Salvador Dalí offered to decorate the inside, and Nobel-Prize winning Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda even declared it “one of the most exquisite creations to emerge from the mind of an architect.”
Nevertheless, financial difficulties prevented the project’s completion. For decades it was inhabited by squatters; today, it serves as the headquarters of Venezuela’s National Intelligence Agency (
A few weeks ago, they launched a 
The Korean Pavilion, which has already won the 
An apartment inside a gigantic helicopter is called the "flying house."
The housing estate is notable for its modernist architecture (hence it’s UNESCO World Heritage designation) of which it’s one of the first places employing modern thinking in architecture. 
Following WWI, Berlin had a serious housing shortage and needed nearly 100,000 apartments built to accommodate newly unemployed soldiers and others who flocked to the liberal city of Berlin. During that period, city planner 
Whether because there was an immediate need to get the housing estates built, because of Martin Wagner’s foresight or because of the newly formed Social Democratic Weimar Republic, Taut was given quite a bit of flexibility in the design and construction of the new housing estate. Today Taut is considered a forerunner of Bauhaus architecture and it’s easy to see in this Berlin modernist housing estate why.
The buildings are noticeably different from the traditional German architecture styles of earlier years (pointy roofs, anyone?) and Bruno Taut selectively employed the use of color to ornament what would otherwise be relatively stark buildings. Perhaps not surprising, there was a lot of throwback from the community during construction as this was a completely different look and style to what people were used to.
Even still, though, I found the colors to be impressive.
I couldn’t stop taking pictures of building corners where colors changed from one to another. This is a relatively easy site to visit so if you have a few hours, it’s a great place for taking photos.
And aside from dealing with population growth, 
But housing seems to be the plan's primary priority.