#mass-timber

#mass-timber

The three-storey building features a scalloped brick facade punctuated by slim, semi-circular and rectangular windows. It is entered via a public walkway that sits between the fitness centre and an adjacent school, as the building is tucked into a centre lot. Its upper levels are clad in corrugated metal panels and just peak over the brick volume at the front.

Last Friday, Brooklyn Public Library officially broke ground on a brand-new Canarsie branch on Rockaway Parkway and the newly released renderings are a masterclass in good library architecture. The two-story, 11,000-square-foot building will double the existing library's public space and stand out as one of New York City's first public buildings constructed with mass timber, a sustainable, low-carbon approach that also happens to look gorgeous.

Studio Gang completes the 74,000-square-foot Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center for the NYC Department of Design and Construction and NYC Parks & Recreation in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Targeting LEED Gold, the civic project establishes a multi-level public hub for fitness, recreation, and learning, consolidating a gym, pool, track, classrooms, and community programs within a sculpted brick volume, punctuated by large arched windows, that opens directly onto a new shaded plaza.

The Garden House is a light-filled, mass-timber hub for The Packer Collegiate Institute's Lower School, designed for the joy of its students and the ease of those who teach and care for them.

The federal government announced $283 million for sewer system upgrades in Black Creek on Tuesday, in hopes of helping speed up building 63,000 new homes in the Downsview area. The sewer dates back to the 1960s, according to a federal news release, and population growth has stretched the system beyond its limits, leading to flooding and blocking approval of new housing developments.

A new kind of warehouse has just popped up, nestled in seven acres of forest in northern Indiana. It's the latest delivery station for Amazon, one of hundreds of logistics centers around the world that handle the package sorting and van loading for last-mile delivery. But while this delivery center will be doing all that standard work, it's also acting as a living laboratory to test out what the future of Amazon's delivery stations-and maybe the future of warehouses writ large-will look like.

Six new residential buildings, alongside two restored historic structures, will accommodate athletes during the Games. Following the event, these residences will be converted into student housing with 1,700 beds, exceeding the originally planned 1,400, while nearby structures will be adapted for affordable housing. The Olympic Village Plaza, designed as a central public space, will host commercial programs, hospitality venues, outdoor markets, and community events.

As cities and communities adapt to new cultural, environmental, and social realities, architecture is taking on an expanded role in shaping spaces of resilience, gathering, and imagination. This edition of Architecture Now highlights six recent projects that span continents and typologies, from the redevelopment of post-industrial landscapes to sacred architecture, cultural pavilions, and civic hubs. Whether through mass timber innovation in Vancouver and Julich, adaptive reuse in Ostrava,