ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 8 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/929177/timber-takes-the-heat-what-every-architect-should-know-about-wood-construction-and-fire-protection Wed, 20 Jan 2021 04:30:00 +0000 Eduardo Souza https://www.archdaily.com/929177/timber-takes-the-heat-what-every-architect-should-know-about-wood-construction-and-fire-protection Since immemorial time, humans have constructed their shelter and homes using wood. Gradually these structures grew more complex, but wood has continued to play a fundamental role in architecture and construction. Today, especially due to growing concerns about climate change and carbon emissions, wood has been regaining significance as an important building material for the future, if used consciously and sustainably. Wood’s structural performance capabilities make it appropriate for a broad range of applications—from the light-duty repetitive framing common in low and mid-rise structures to the larger and heavier, often hybrid systems, used to build arenas, offices, universities and other buildings where long spans and tall walls are required.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/914735/our-lady-of-the-assumption-catholic-primary-school-bvn Sun, 28 Apr 2019 19:00:00 +0000 Andreas Luco https://www.archdaily.com/914735/our-lady-of-the-assumption-catholic-primary-school-bvn Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School is a new K-6 school for 420 students in North Strathfield. The design is a realisation of the school’s vision of creating spaces that invite imagination, innovation and support independent learning and student wellbeing. The project reuses a rundown 1970s three-storey former Telstra training centre that was a typical institutional example of brutalist concrete architecture of its time.

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