Snøhetta uses mass timber and earthen walls for Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

Image: Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Image source: Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library / Press Center / Photo Library / Media: Building Renderings. Open Use (Public Domain). Article by Ben Dreith. Dezeen – July 2, 2026.

Architecture studio Snøhetta has laid a hill-like green roof over timber-and-earth volumes for a building dedicated to American president Theodore Roosevelt, connecting it to the rolling landscape of North Dakota, USA. Located on a butte outside of Medora, North Dakota, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library (TRPL) looks out over a national park that also bears the name of the 26th president of the United States. The 95,000-square-foot building features a green roof that crests over the interior volumes, connecting with the ground and conforming to the hills and prairies of the North Dakota Badlands, with its ravines, gulches and buttes left over by ancient erosion. […]

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