However, all signs indicate that the Norwegian skyscraper will not be the world’s highest wood building for long. Steven Errico Zurich’s and Milwaukee’s Moment Vancouver's Brock Commons Tallwood House is a Canadian student residence hall made of CLT. Not only is it a meter and a half (4.9 feet) taller than the Viennese tower, but it does not use concrete reinforcement, making it the world’s tallest wooden skyscraper. Very soon after came Mjøstårnet, the Mjøsa Lake Tower in the small Norwegian municipality of Brumunddal, which has 18 floors and is 85.5 meters (about 281 feet) tall. Completed in 2019, HoHo raised the bar for wooden structures by 31 meters (about 102 feet) in just two years. The first to surpass it was Vienna’s HoHo building, a hybrid wood-concrete 84-meter-high (about 276 feet tall) skyscraper. However, that project is still under construction by the time it opens, it will have been overtaken by larger rivals. At that point, the only other tall wooden buildings were religious structures from another era, relics of a period before modern concrete came into vogue, such as Orthodox cathedrals like Almaty’s, and China’s ancient pagoda, the Fogong temple, which was built in the 11th century and stands over 50 meters (164 feet) tall.Īmong contemporary high-rises made from wood, the Tallwood House’s strongest competition was Amsterdam’s HAUT building, a 21-floor, 75-meter-high (about 246 feet) structure. The structure measured 53 meters (174 feet), just a few centimeters higher than Bergen’s Treet apartment tower. In 2017, a Canadian student residence hall constructed of cross-laminated timber (CLT), the Brock Commons Tallwood House in Vancouver, made news.
From Vancouver’s wooden student tower to Norway’s CLT skyscraper Nevertheless, there’s been striking progress in recent years. Here the figures are more modest we are talking about buildings that are dozens of meters tall, not hundreds. However, Old Europe is competitive in another arena that is starting to gain traction of late: wooden skyscrapers. By comparison, the tallest building in Western Europe, London’s Shard of Glass, is a diminutive 309 meters (1,014 feet). While the United States once claimed the tallest buildings in the world, China, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan are now fiercely battling over the world’s highest structure with contenders around 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) in height.
As British architect Peter Cook says, “projects like this are born of that old urge to explore our limits as a species and soar into the sky, something that is already in myths such as the Tower of Babel.” They also emerge from competition between the elite architects who serve emerging economies and feudal satrapies. But it wouldn’t have been much taller than the world’s current architectural peak, Dubai’s 829-meter-tall (2,720 feet) Burj Khalifa tower, which opened in 2010. The Jeddah tower might have been an eccentric and almost obscene act of human hubris. Alamy Stock Photo The Towers of China, Dubai, Kazakhstan and Malaysia Mjøstårnet, the Mjøsa Lake Tower in the small Norwegian municipality of Brumunddal, is currently the tallest wooden building at 18 stories and 85.5 meters (280.5 feet). That would have been the planet’s tallest human-made structure.
The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, the construction of which came to a halt in spring 2018, had been slated for completion in 2021 and would’ve measured over a kilometer (over 3,280 feet) in height. If it hadn’t been for the collapse of Saudi Arabia’s real estate market, Seidler’s old prophecy would have come true over a year ago. The destiny of mankind consists of imposing grandiose projects on itself and carrying them out.” “Building skyscrapers more than a thousand meters high may seem obscene or extravagant,” said Austrian architect Harry Seidler in 1963, “but have no doubt that it is perfectly feasible and that sooner or later someone will do it.
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