"Wooden Buildings Reach for the Sky"
Gabriel Leigh for the New York Times; July 30, 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/202...in-vaxjo-sweden.html

Cross-laminated timber is becoming a "go to" material for building projects in Sweden. It's getting the "nod" as a major structural component for about 20 percent of all new multistory construction projects in Sweden. This article tells why.


"The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar [post 1945] Architecture"
Kurt Soller and Michael Snyder for the New York Times Style Magazine; August 2, 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/202...ar-architecture.html

If there were a virtual coffee table in the cyberspace living room that you inhabit, you would use it to put this article on prominent display for "style points."

Both articles include top shelf (quality) photographs.

Unless you've been perusing the New York Times online of late, I'd expect these are available to you as "freebies." A moot point for anyone who is a subscriber.

There's also the "maryjane" hack for using these Internet page links to defeat the subscriber paywall and see these limited access articles, but I forget how that works. (I've posted it before, but I'd have to look around to see where that was. I should have made a note of it for myself, but I didn't.)

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quote Originally posted by rinselberg: "Wooden Buildings Reach for the Sky" Gabriel Leigh for the New York Times; July 30, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/202...in-vaxjo-sweden.html Cross-laminated timber is becoming a "go to" material for building projects in Sweden. It's getting the "nod" as a major structural component for about 20 percent of all new multistory construction projects in Sweden. This article tells why.

Two thoughts:

Told you so! https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum6/HTML/126127.html
As I said, "Do you think that just maybe, just maybe we were doing it right in the first place, before a rabid pack of drooling leftists decided to make changes just because they could. Somebody needs to stop and think about how many other things they are wrong about."
SAVE THE FOREST! CUT DOWN SOME TREES.

Also, when Engineered Wood Products (EWP) first hit the "big time", over 40 years ago, Weyerhaeuser was heavily involved, at the tip of the spear. I can honestly say, "Been there, done that and got the T shirt (polo shirt, actually)"

My ancestors in Sweden were building "large, multistory, wooden buildings" a LONG time ago.

These 2 are over 800 years old and still in use.

I've been inside both of them.





By the way, thanks to many centuries of proper forest management, Sweden is still very, very, far from being out of trees and isn't plagued by forest fires.

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In addition, and directly tying this thread to the one I linked above, if you looked at one of those paper milk cartons that we all remember in our younger days, on the side opposite the side that was intended to open, you would always see one of two names: Weyerhaeuser or International Paper.

quote Originally posted by rinselberg: "Wooden Buildings Reach for the Sky" Gabriel Leigh for the New York Times; July 30, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/202...in-vaxjo-sweden.html Cross-laminated timber is becoming a "go to" material for building projects in Sweden. It's getting the "nod" as a major structural component for about 20 percent of all new multistory construction projects in Sweden. This article tells why. "The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar [post 1945] Architecture" Kurt Soller and Michael Snyder for the New York Times Style Magazine; August 2, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/202...ar-architecture.html If there were a virtual coffee table in the cyberspace living room that you inhabit, you would use it to put this article on prominent display for "style points." Both articles include top shelf (quality) photographs. Unless you've been perusing the New York Times online of late, I'd expect these are available to you as "freebies." A moot point for anyone who is a subscriber. There's also the "maryjane" hack for using these Internet page links to defeat the subscriber paywall and see these limited access articles, but I forget how that works. (I've posted it before, but I'd have to look around to see where that was. I should have made a note of it for myself, but I didn't.)

If you're genuinely interested in architectural design or home design, there is a channel called "Design" that streams via one of the Roku channels. It's pretty good, I pretty much just leave that on whenever I'm working on the house... lots of good ideas. It's lower budget videography, but the people doing the designs and remodeling are doing it usually for very high-end clients. It's just not stupid like Property Brothers or many of the other shows that incorporate drama and a "story" ... which no one cares about. The Design channel is 100% just design stuff.

For that matter, there's also a streaming "This Old House" channel, which plays back to back to back to back This Old House episodes including Trade Show and some of the other Old House spin-offs... it's awesome.

I also subscribe to Dwell magazine, which I really like, and have incorporated a lot of the things from there into my new home.


But since we're on the topic, there is also a streaming channel that ONLY plays Unsolved Mysteries... I mean, 24/7 Unsolved Mystery reruns... it's absolutely fantastic. I've spent hours on end watching all these awesome reruns...