MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Construction of Ascent, a 25-story mass timber building, is underway in downtown Milwaukee, and it's beginning to overtake nearby buildings. When completed the 284-foot residential ...

Not so long ago, it was exceptionally rare to see timber buildings more than six stories tall. But new engineered wood technologies like cross-laminated timber (CLT), glued laminated wood (gluluam), ...

There's a huge boom in sustainable timber construction at the moment, with everything from museums to airports being made from modern engineered wood. Renowned Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru ...

MILWAUKEE - It is lighter, greener, and even fire-resistant. Those are some reasons architects and engineers say they are using wood to build a high-rise tower in Milwaukee. At Van Buren and Kilbourn, ...

Construction began last month in Milwaukee on the 25-story Ascent, which will have a hybrid timber-and-concrete frame. The design team for Ascent—a 284-ft-tall apartment building just getting under ...

Denver-based architecture office Tres Birds announced that Denver’s tallest mass timber building is planned to break ground in July 2023. The 12-story building named “Return to Form” will be located ...

Having recently validated assumptions about floor-system capacities in its timber-and-concrete structural model for a 42-story residential building, architect-engineer Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is ...

Earlier plans for the building called for nine stories, but Skanska acquired additional air rights, allowing it to build ...

Milwaukee’s proposed 25-story Ascent tower sounds like a conventional housing project. Scheduled to open in September 2022, it offers 250+ apartments with views of downtown Milwaukee and Lake Michigan ...

Decades before the age of megatall skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa, Chicago boasted bragging rights as home of the world's tallest skyscraper with the Willis Tower (aka Sears Tower). However, if ...