the future is wood.

In 2017 the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) published Tall Timber: A Global Audit, and found that France, Norway, and England would lead in development of high-rise timber buildings.

Today, the tallest timber buildings in the world are in Europe. The 20 tallest timber buildings, from 24-8 stories, will be the focus of this blog; who built them, how, and why?

  • The Cube London

  • Stadthaus London

  • Curtain Place London

  • Albizzia Lyon

  • Perspective Bordeaux

  • HAUT Amsterdam

  • Der Karl Doorman Rotterdam

  • HoHo Wein Vienna

  • Skaio Heilbronn

  • H8 Bad Aibling

  • E3 Berlin

  • Sensations Strasbourg

  • Mjøstårnet Brumunddal

  • Treet Bergen

  • Sara Kulturhus Center Skellefteä

  • Lagerhuset Eslöv

  • The Strandparken Sundbyberg

  • Lighthouse Joensuu

  • Puukuokka Kuokkala

  • WoodCity Helsinki

Andrew Mack is an architect from Chicago, Illinois.

Since 2017 he has worked at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) under Scott Duncan. At SOM, Andrew has been involved in the Nanjing Pukou supertall tower in Nanjing, China, the Mulva Cultural Center in Du Pere, Wisconsin, the Appleton Public Library in Appleton, Wisconsin, and a host of forthcoming towers in Chicago.

Previously, Andrew worked in New York as a designer at Rice+Lipka and at OMA-NY.

Andrew holds an M.Arch from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois. He also attended the year-long exchange study program at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles (ENSAV) during his undergraduate degree. He is the 2022 recipient of the Francis J. Plym Traveling Fellowship, which made this blog possible.

Together with Michal Ojrzanowski, Andrew has developed several small projects in the Midwest under the banner of MackOjrzanowski.

Andrew strives is to imbue each thing with a strong sense of place, timeless construction and design, and to empower the user with a sense of ownership; towards an architecture that is materially rich
and life-affirming.

Andrew Mack