Architect Plans To Build A 30-Story Wooden Skyscraper First a
wooden Starbucks, now a wooden skyscraper. Vancouver-based
architect Michael Green is planning to swap cement and steel for
timber, to build a 30-story wooden skyscraper in Vancounver,
Canada. ‘Tallwood’ would be made of large panels of ‘laminated
strand lumber’—a composite made by gluing together strands of
wood. “We think we can go higher than 30 stories,” Green told
CNN. “We stopped exploring wood around 100 years ago (with the
advent of steel and concrete); now we’re looking at a whole new
system using timber products.” What made the architects think of
using wood as opposed to the de rigueur steel and concrete? The
environment. “The real change came when we started thinking
about climate change. Steel and concrete are great, but not
environmentally friendly,” Green said. Trees are a renewable
resource, and they help to reduce air pollution. Sourcing from
sustainably-managed forests could be deemed more environmentally
sensitive, according to C