The Plan – Did you say “wood”?
The Smile features in this month’s issue of The Plan on the technological innovation of it’s use of CLT panels.
The article looks at three very different projects illustrating the use of hardwood as a structural building material; The Smile, Maggie’s Centre Oldham (dRMM Architects) and Warner Stand at Lords Cricket Ground (Populous).
“The Smile’s disarming simplicity conceals years of research into the cross-lamination of hardwood fibres and is the first structure built with industrial-sized panels of hardwood CLT” The Plan