Gigon Guyer’s CreaTower will likely be the first project to debut a prefabricated concrete flooring solution that draws on historical vaulting techniques and cuts embodied carbon by two thirds.
Through a combination of prefabricated components and strategic construction methods, the new bridge demonstrates how complex infrastructure can be built with minimal disruption.
Using 25 repeating CLT panel shapes, the newly patented housing system achieves a construction cost of $550 per square foot in California’s expensive market.
This special section explores the latest in prefabrication, highlighting technological advances, structural innovations, and feats of infrastructural engineering.
An expansive renovation program updates and replaces key parts of the New York institution’s enormous complex, taking into account curatorial needs, visitor experience, and energy use.
A hybrid timber structure brings the San Francisco school’s two campus cultures together, while reducing embodied carbon and enhancing seismic performance.