Looking back at the past 10 years in mass timber design—since our firm’s first mass timber building, the John W. Olver Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—it is evident that as ...
For some, the sheer utterance “Boston West End” evokes recollections of a neighborhood, just outside Boston’s city center, where thousands of predominantly working class Jewish and Black Bostonians ...
In East New York, Brooklyn, Remembrance Plaza continues reconciliation with connection to an African American Burial Ground, and soon a new library. (Courtesy MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks ...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The U.S. built environment could benefit from approaches to mass-timber design and construction that have taken off in parts of Europe, advised a veteran architect from HFA ...
The firm’s Kathleen McCartney Hall merges two academic centers and dissolves boundaries between leadership, learning, and the ...
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and BNIM have unveiled their design for a new mass timber cube structure called the Makers’ KUbe for the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design. A six-story, 50 ...
It's fascinating to observe the current state of wood in the world of architecture. The material, once seemingly forgotten by modernity, has resurged with full force, facing significant challenges but ...
Amenities and aesthetics are key considerations when booking a hotel stay. Today, architects are finding that mass timber can provide ample benefits—and be a differentiator—when designing in the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matt Shaw is a NY–based writer covering architecture, art and design. Murphy has stepped away from MASS and will serve as trustee ...