What Happens to Mass Timber When Its Use Is Over?

You won’t believe what they’re going to do to the largest wood structure in the world now that they are done with it. It was the largest wooden building ever constructed with a circumference of more than 1.2 miles, covering nearly 1.5 acres when it was built for Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan last year. […]

Mass Timber Japan-Style

In what represents one of its first uses for a sports stadium, a Japanese soccer team is using mass timber for its new home. The Japanese city of Fukushima was devastated by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami that created a nuclear disaster in 2011 but ever since it has been trying to rebuild, both physically […]

A New London Exhibition Celebrates Japanese Master Carpentry

The works of Tsunekazu Nishioka, who passed away a quarter century ago and is considered Japan’s greatest “miyadaiku,” or master carpenter, are now on display. “The Craft of Carpentry: Drawing Life from Japan’s Forests” opened at Japan House London last month and runs through July 6, celebrating the work of this classic woodworking technique and […]

Japan Continues to Grow Its Mass Timber Structure Base

The latest entry in the burgeoning global mass timber movement is the Port Plus building in Yokohama, outside Tokyo. The worldwide market for mass timber buildings and structures continues to expand and many are rising in Japan, often combining modern construction techniques with traditional Japanese joinery. The latest is the Obayashi Port Plus building in […]