Wooden skyscrapers could be the future of flat-pack cities around the world

The development of engineered timber could herald a new era of eco-friendly ‘plyscrapers’. Christchurch welcomed its first multistorey timber structure this year, there are plans for Vancouver, and the talk is China could follow

When American engineer William Le Baron Jenney designed the world’s first skyscraper in Chicago in 1884, no one believed in…

Full text: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/03/-sp-wooden-skyscrapers-future-world-plyscrapers

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Athlyn Cathcart-Keays

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The Guardian, 2014-10-03.

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ARUP
Michael Green Architecture (MGA)
Skidmore, Owens & Merrill LLP (SOM)
University of Canterbury
University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)

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