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Can't find a link right now, but I did read an article on skyscrapers being designed out of engineered timber. I think it is something about using the whole box as structure, whereas in a steel building the curtain walling is just dead load. We simply cannot keep building out of concrete, as this story shows.



We all have the same doubts about wood. Seeing skyscraper scaffoldings in bamboo might change our perception of physics ;) https://www.google.fr/search?tbm=isch&q=bamboo+scaffolding




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