Mjøstårnet in Brumunddal, Norway. Currently the tallest completed timber building at 85.4 meters. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml to c/architecture@lemmy.ml

0 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Image by Øyvind Holmstad, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

If you're curious as to why wood is used, most likely the biggest answer is sustainability. Wood is a renewable resource is managed properly, and is carbon neutral as trees acquire carbon from the atmosphere. Compared to concrete, which is mined and releases carbon when it's made.

no comments (yet)

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

there doesn't seem to be anything here

this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2021

2 points (100.0% liked)

Architecture

363 readers

10 users here now

No architecture-specific rules, just don't be a jerk, your normal stuff.

This will be updated if the community feels there is a particular need to ban certain types of spammy link content, etc.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

kixiQu@lemmy.ml