Articles by Tom Ravenscroft

This week on Dezeen, a mass-timber skyscraper in Milwaukee was certified as the world’s tallest timber building. Designed by Wisconsin studio Korb + Associates Architects, the 86.6-metre-tall residential tower was made primarily from cross-laminated timber and glulam with a concrete base, elevator and stair shafts. It was certified as the world’s tallest timber building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, just overtaking the

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UK practice Invisible Studio has collaborated with local community groups to design and build a shelter from timber sourced within the Westonbirt arboretum in Gloucestershire, England. Designed to be used by Westonbirt’s outreach programme, the shelter was made entirely from oak felled from the arboretum as part of its routine woodland management. “Westonbirt has an outreach programme

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Artist Morag Myerscough has unveiled a colourful reinterpretation of the original gatehouse at Housesteads Roman Fort alongside Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. Named The Future Belongs To What Was As Much As What Is, the pavilion stands on the site of the original northern gatehouse at the fort, which dates back to 122AD. Commissioned by

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