The future is wooden
It seems that the days of concrete high-rises and brick houses may be numbered - especially in disaster prone urban environments - as experiments show that wood could be the most economical (and eco friendly) earthquake resistant building material.Elsewhere on the world wide web, the New York Time's Nicolai Ouroussoff appears to have fallen for Toyo Ito, Australian Nakheel employees in hot water and Axis Mundi propose a hideous replacement for Jean Nouvel's MOMA tower.
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