Mass Timber Construction: What, Why and How

High-Performance Adaptive Reuse; A Case Study

Patterns & Screens – Functional Facades by Design

Girl Uninterrupted: Trends from Coast to Coast

Addressing Challenges of Mass Timber Design and Construction

Congratulations to the project team, Leers Weinzapfel Associate, Modus Studio, Macky Mitchell, and OLIN Studio for being the Gold Winner in the Wood in Architecture category at this year’s World Architecture News Awards.

Principal Tom Chung FAIA LEED BD+C will be presenting on the John W. Olver Design Building at UMASS Amherst. A case study in Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), Mass Timber and custom cast steel connections, Join him on November 16th.

Register here: https://www.aiacharlotte.org/events/

A Train Station Transcends Its Architectural Restoration to Express Its New Role in the Community. Read Article here: https://www.retrofitmagazine.com/

We are proud to announce LWA’s Zhanina Boyadzhieva, AIA, Senior Associate Ashley Rao, AIA LEED AP and Associate Juliet Chun, AIA have been elected to the 2021 Board of Directors and Elective Committees and Delegations. Learn more here: https://www.architects.org/members/election

LWA enjoyed the LIVE Toast for AIA Cote Top Ten Awards this afternoon! We are honored to be a recipient for the John W Olver Design Building, UMass Amherst the largest cross-laminated timber academic building in the US. Learn more about the project here: https://www.aia.org/

Adohi Hall; Center for Engineering, Innovation, and Sciences; and Franklin County Justice Center were recognized as finalists, and North Chiller Plant was an honorable mention for the Plan Awards 2020

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“In our office we have a strong green group—because we’re in Boston, we call it the Green Monsters—so there’s great interest. That said, this was very much client driven. The building construction technology school does a lot of testing on wood structures, and they specifically asked if it could be a wood building. We had never done one before, but we embraced it.”  Josiah Stevenson

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Principal Tom Chung FAIA LEED BD+C and Senior Associate Ashley Rao AIA LEED AP will be presenting on “Timber Tectonics: Structure and Joinery”, showing us how building details in Mass Timber all comes together. Join them on September 25th.

Register here: https://events.archpaper.com/masstimber/

Principal Andrea Leers FAIA will be on the jury for NCTU GIA Competition “Inside-Out : Urban Learning in the Post-Pandemic Era”