Adelaide Aquatic Center
The Adelaide Aquatic Centre is scheduled for completion by the end of 2025 and will set new standards for sustainable leisure and sports facilities in Australia. The Aquatic Centre will offer a wide range of facilities, including a 50-meter indoor pool, a 25-meter outdoor pool, rehabilitation pools, play areas and fitness and wellness zones. Accessibility […]
Ede-Wageningen Train Station
A new station with a striking wooden roof was built in the Dutch town of Ede. In view of increasing passenger numbers, the municipality of Ede and ProRail decided to expand the existing station back in 2008. The aim was to create a modern station that combines functionality, safety and sustainability. Striking wooden roofing The […]
Warehouse Moorabbin – Canopy at Chifley
Canopy at Chifley is one of Australia’s first mass timber warehouses. Designed by Michael Carr Architect, it celebrates timber as a design element used throughout the building. The project was developed by Australian real estate company Goodman Group together with H.Troon as the main contractor. HESS TIMBER was commissioned to design and supply 1,500 m³ […]
UCB Windlesham Campus
The existing campus of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company UCB in WindleshamSurrey was built according to the designs of the British architecture firm Heatherwick studio fundamentally transformed. At its center, “The Brain” was built—a unique building constructed using timber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THlifIL-bYk “This is probably the first project that I’ve been involved in where unanimously everyone has […]
WoodHub Government Office Hub
The new 36,500 m² WoodHub office complex in the heart of Odense, Denmark serves as a workplace for 1,600 government employees. With the choice of timber as the primary building material, the project designed by C.F. Møller Architects sets new standards in Denmark and beyond with regard to large-volume timber construction projects. For the columns […]
Sky Innovation Center
The Sky Pavilion of the media company Sky is harmoniously embedded in the park-like surroundings of the Osterley Campus. Although the new building is connected to the adjacent Sky Innovation Center, the restaurant is used for the entire campus. GLULAM AT THE CENTER The Sky Pavilion is designed to stand out clearly from its surroundings […]
RHS Garden Bridgewater – Welcome Building
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is a renowned and world-leading horticultural organization. In November 2015, the RHS announced the creation of a new garden area on the 154-acre Worsley Hall Estate. This will make the RHS Garden Bridgewater the largest of its kind in Europe and a magnet for around 700,000 visitors a year. Entrance […]
Louis Vuitton Fondation
An architectural gem designed by Frank Gehry was opened in Paris in 2013. The museum was created on the initiative of Bernard Arnault, the CEO of the French company Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVHM). The museum mainly exhibits works from the 20th century. In total, the museum has eleven galleries covering 11,000 square meters, an […]
La Seine Musicale
Since 2016 Île Seguin has had a new landmark. On the banks of the Seine in Boulogne-Billancourt, west of Paris, a ship-like building complex has been built: La Seine Musicale. The designed by Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines cultural center was opened in spring 2017. 3D glulam The building envelope, which is supported by […]
Lord’s Cricket Ground – Warner Stand
Over the course of its history, the world’s most important cricket venue has been renovated, refurbished and modernized several times. This was most recently the case in 2016, when the construction of the Warner Stand gave the sports complex on St. John’s Wood Road in London a new stand with a unique roof in terms […]
