Shigeru Ban's timber-skeleton Tamedia building left engineers "incredulous"
Briefly

Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we look at the Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban - Switzerland's first seven-storey mass-timber structure that was barely legal at the time of its completion in 2013.Designed as an extension to the neighbouring headquarters of Swiss publishing group Tamedia, the office takes over a prominent site on the banks of the river Sihl and leaves its timber skeleton exposed for all to see, sheathed only by the building's glass skin.
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