Fourth Door and other related pieces by Oliver Lowenstein on CLT, engineered timber and related timber features

For other architectural Fourth Door related material see FD’s Architecture page




E3, Berlin Kaden/Klingbeil Architekten
Tall timber and timber towers

Timber Towers – Blueprint Timber hi-rise feature including Hermann Kaufmannem - Blueprint  (May 2012)

Towering Impact - Timber High-Rise Part 1 - Green Building Summer 2009

Växjo, leading Sweden’s tall timber town – Timber High-Rise Part 2 – Green Building Autumn 2009

Murray Grove – Waugh Thistleton building review – AJ 08.05.2008






Open Academy, Norwich, Sheppard Robson

CLT in Britain

Would if you Could – CLT comes of age - Blueprint – January 2018

Hackney London’s capital of CLT  – Zuschnitt 59

How CLT came to Britain – Detail Green 1/2011– May 2011

Sandall Magna Primary School – Sarah Wigglesworth - – Detail Green 1/2011– May 2011







Krumbach Bus Interchange – Bernardo Bader and
BZZT Arkitekten

Middle Europe

Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Bus:Stop project in Krumbach, Bregenzerwald (incl CLT related projects) – Blueprint 2016 (pdf – 8mb)

Overview of new timber architecture from VorarlbergEcoTech (2012) (pdf -14MB) June 2012

What Vorarlberg did next - the new Vorarlberg generation: - Unstructured 4 – 2008

Kaufmann Country - Hermann Kaufmann and Vorarlberg’s Kaufmann clan  – Fourth Door Review 8 2008

Timber Engines for Growth, Julius Natterer, I-Bois and Massive Wood  interview Fourth Door Review 7 - Summer 2005         






Limnolagen, Växjo, from the Ana goes Europe,
Dutch architects ANA, traveling the continent in search
of answers to their architectural, housing, sustainability
and other related questions
Nordic World

Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland

Trondheim Built – Sustainability and the future of Norway’s building culture (including CLT section)

Helen & Hard – Blueprint - Profile May 2012

Helen & Hard – Vennesla Library, Norway April 2012  – Architecture Today

Växjo, leading Sweden’s tall timber town – Timber High-Rise Part 2 – Green Building Autumn 2009

A Timber Renaissance for Europe, Nordic contemporary Timberbuild as a template for pan European reforestation - FDR6 – 2003