This week’s Sunday Times has given extensive coverage to the rise in popularity of cross-laminated timber construction among UK architects.
The article, in the newspaper’s environment section, showcased the Landmark nine-storey Stadthaus apartment block in North London and compared the environmental benefits of the construction method compared with concrete. More than 100 cross-laminated timber reference projects now exist in the UK.
It said architects were looking at how high they could go with the material, with the prospect of “timber skyscrapers” perhaps only a few years away.
Architect Lewis Bart Rawson has published plans for a 30-storey timber tower built around a steel core.
