Can Future Cities be Timber Cities? Google’s Sidewalk Labs Asks the Experts

Steel and concrete facades have dominated contemporary cityscapes for generations, but as pressures from climate change pose new challenges for design and construction industries, some firms are turning to mass timber as the construction material of the future. But could it be used for structures as complex as skyscrapers? 

Courtesy of MGA. ImageMGA's proposal for a mass timber building in Newark
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Cite: Olivia Jia. "Can Future Cities be Timber Cities? Google’s Sidewalk Labs Asks the Experts" 23 Oct 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/904271/can-future-cities-be-timber-cities-googles-sidewalk-labs-asks-the-experts> ISSN 0719-8884

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