Designing Timber

Moisture Monitoring For A Dream Timber Home

by Matt Milton|07 July 2512 August 25|Design

When Seb and Janna Laan Lomas set out to build their dream family home, sustainability was at the core of every decision. Inspired by natural materials and guided by Passivhaus principles, the couple constructed Llama Croft—a bio-based home using timber, clay, and lime. Seb Laan Lomas and his wife, Janna,...

New timber and bio-based buildings rejuvenate a community food-growing hub in North London

by Bryony Bodimeade|18 June 2524 November 25|Design

Formerly a Haringey council-run plant nursery, Wolves Lane was taken over in 2017 by a consortium of community food-growing organisations, including The Ubele Initiative, OrganicLea and BlackRootz, a multigenerational, Black-led growers’ enterprise. The Wolves Lane site with new buildings to the right © Luke O'Donovan The 3.5-acre site contains a...

TDUK: Building a Better World in Wood

by Jennie Ward|19 December 2419 December 24|Build, Corporate, Design, Supply

David Hopkins, Chief Executive of Timber Development UK, reflects on the progress we’ve made in the last 20 months since our launch – and on our exciting future helping to transform the built environment. In the 20 months since we launched Timber Development UK (TDUK) there has been a whirlwind...

Designing Timber | Issue 08

by Matt Milton|25 November 2425 November 24|Build, Design

Issue 8 of Designing Timber, a magazine from Timber Development UK (TDUK) dedicated to architects, designers and anyone working with timber.

Designing Timber | Issue 07

by Matt Milton|17 June 2417 June 24|Build, Design

Issue 7 of Designing Timber, a magazine from Timber Development UK (TDUK) dedicated to architects, designers and anyone working with timber.

Designing Timber | Issue 06

by Matt Milton|17 June 2417 June 24|Build, Design

Issue 6 of Designing Timber, a magazine from Timber Development UK (TDUK) dedicated to architects, designers and anyone working with timber.

An extra CLT timber floor adds art gallery chic to Lower James Street

by Matt Milton|04 January 2421 December 23|Design

A beautiful old Soho office building needed a refurb. Mass timber was the perfect material to provide an extra floor at the same time. “At the time, looking to extend a building with CLT wasn’t all that common,” recalls Matt Hale, Director at Hale Brown Architects. “I think Lower James...

Transforming a former church into a welcoming community centre

by Bryony Bodimeade|29 December 2321 December 23|Design

Konishi Gaffney’s overhaul of the Greyfriars Charteris Centre in Edinburgh dramatically transformed the existing buildings. It created flexible events spaces and an elegant nondenominational sanctuary. Sitting at the base of Arthur’s Seat, an ancient volcano, the original Greyfriars church was built in 1912. Its community outreach and enterprise centre was...

The personalised passivhaus with a place for everything

by Bryony Bodimeade|20 December 2330 January 24|Design

With a refined barn-like form expressed in timber and locally sourced sandstone, the award-winning Godwit House feels at once agricultural and contemporary. Sitting on the plains of the Coquet Estuary in Northumbria, this bespoke home, designed by TDUK members Mawson Kerr Architects, claims its crown as (for now) the most...