Sara Kulturhus Centre “unleashed a world of previously unimagined design possibilities”

Photo credit: Patrick Degerman. Article by Lizzie Crook. Dezeen – March 31, 2023.

The Sara Kulturhus Centre is built almost entirely from mass timber, and was designed by White Arkitekter to bring the city’s long tradition of creating wooden buildings “into a new era”. It also aims to demonstrate the potential of engineered wood as a structural material that can reduce reliance on concrete, speed up construction and reduce architecture’s carbon footprint. “By combining the local timber tradition with innovative technology and engineering, the city’s wood heritage is now being brought into a new era,” said project architect Maria Orvesten. […]

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