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Why timber buildings are catching on
October 22, 2017
Engineered wood construction is booming, and policy initiatives further encourage its rise.
When Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., announced this summer it would build an entire neighborhood out of mass timber in Toronto, it lent credence to an idea that would have seemed outlandish a decade ago: the sustainable buildings of the future might just be made out of wood. Read more.
Engineered wood construction is booming, and policy initiatives further encourage its rise.
When Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., announced this summer it would build an entire neighborhood out of mass timber in Toronto, it lent credence to an idea that would have seemed outlandish a decade ago: the sustainable buildings of the future might just be made out of wood. Read more.
The future of architecture is lumbering toward us
By ALEX BOZIKOVIC
The Globe and Mail
December 21, 2017
It's been a century since timber dominated cityscapes, but recent innovations have sent a throng of firms back to the forest to take advantage of the efficient, sustainable, fashionable and functional architectural ancestor... Read more.
The Globe and Mail
December 21, 2017
It's been a century since timber dominated cityscapes, but recent innovations have sent a throng of firms back to the forest to take advantage of the efficient, sustainable, fashionable and functional architectural ancestor... Read more.
Top Projects of 2016: T3
By Frank Jossi
Finance & Commerce
July 27, 2017
Billed as the largest modern mass timber commercial office building in the country, T3 stands for Timber, Transit and Technology. With a North Loop location next to the Cedar Lake Trail and Target Field Station, the moniker fits the bill. Read more.
Finance & Commerce
July 27, 2017
Billed as the largest modern mass timber commercial office building in the country, T3 stands for Timber, Transit and Technology. With a North Loop location next to the Cedar Lake Trail and Target Field Station, the moniker fits the bill. Read more.
A New Mass-Timber, Transit-Connected, Technology-Rich Office Building Fits Minneapolis' Warehouse District to a T
By John Reinan
MN Architecture
May/June Issue
A remarkable study in contrast has recently taken shape in Minneapolis’ North Loop, the white-hot creative center of the city. It’s a new building that’s massive in size and dramatic in appearance, yet it fits snugly and unobtrusively into its surroundings. Read more.
MN Architecture
May/June Issue
A remarkable study in contrast has recently taken shape in Minneapolis’ North Loop, the white-hot creative center of the city. It’s a new building that’s massive in size and dramatic in appearance, yet it fits snugly and unobtrusively into its surroundings. Read more.
Co-working provider signs lease in North Loop's T3 Building
By Nick Halter
Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal
April 20, 2017
Industrious, a New York-based co-working space operator, is opening up a location in the North Loop below Amazon’s future Minneapolis office. The company has signed a lease for 34,000 square feet, taking up the entire second floor of the timber-built T3 building that Hines developed last year at 323 N. Washington Ave. Read more.
Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal
April 20, 2017
Industrious, a New York-based co-working space operator, is opening up a location in the North Loop below Amazon’s future Minneapolis office. The company has signed a lease for 34,000 square feet, taking up the entire second floor of the timber-built T3 building that Hines developed last year at 323 N. Washington Ave. Read more.
T3 Office in Minneapolis Is Another Step Forward for Timber Construction
By Beth Mattson-Teig
Urbanland
April 20, 2017
Hines is widely known for building glass-and-steel skyscrapers across the globe. So, it would seem that the developer is going a bit against the grain in its latest endeavor with a boutique office property in Minneapolis made largely of wood. The new 225,000-square-foot (21,000 sq m) T3 office building is being touted as the largest mass timber building in the United States to be constructed in recent history. Read more.
Urbanland
April 20, 2017
Hines is widely known for building glass-and-steel skyscrapers across the globe. So, it would seem that the developer is going a bit against the grain in its latest endeavor with a boutique office property in Minneapolis made largely of wood. The new 225,000-square-foot (21,000 sq m) T3 office building is being touted as the largest mass timber building in the United States to be constructed in recent history. Read more.
Everything old is new again with the T3 building in Minneapolis
By Lloyd Alter
Design/Green Architecture
December 20, 2016
Almost everybody is calling Michael Green’s T3 building “the largest mass timber building in the US”. It’s not, it’s probably not even close. At 220,000 square feet it is the largest wood building built in this century, and might be the largest built in the last 75 years, but there are hundreds of buildings across North America built like the T3 building, and I suspect many of them are bigger. Read more.
Design/Green Architecture
December 20, 2016
Almost everybody is calling Michael Green’s T3 building “the largest mass timber building in the US”. It’s not, it’s probably not even close. At 220,000 square feet it is the largest wood building built in this century, and might be the largest built in the last 75 years, but there are hundreds of buildings across North America built like the T3 building, and I suspect many of them are bigger. Read more.
Top Five Coolest Buildings of 2016
By Kendall Jones
ConstructConnect
December 7, 2016
As we rapidly approach the end of the year, it’s time to release ConstructConnect’s list of the “Top Five Coolest Buildings of 2016.” In order to be eligible, the building has to have been completed, topped out or opened within the calendar year and has some aspect that makes the building cool. The competition was stiff with lots of great projects to choose from, so narrowing it down to just five wasn’t easy. So without further ado, and in no particular order, here are our “Top Five.” Read more.
ConstructConnect
December 7, 2016
As we rapidly approach the end of the year, it’s time to release ConstructConnect’s list of the “Top Five Coolest Buildings of 2016.” In order to be eligible, the building has to have been completed, topped out or opened within the calendar year and has some aspect that makes the building cool. The competition was stiff with lots of great projects to choose from, so narrowing it down to just five wasn’t easy. So without further ado, and in no particular order, here are our “Top Five.” Read more.
A walk in the woods of T3 timber building
By Hank Long
Finance & Commerce
November 30, 2016
How many office buildings smell like freshly cut timber and offer a wall of mounted bike racks as a form of utilitarian art? To date, there may be only one.
This month developer Hines completed construction of T3, its seven-story 224,000-square-foot building at 323 Washington Ave. N. in the North Loop of Minneapolis. The Houston-based global real estate company touts the project as the first modern wooden office building of its size in the nation. Read more.
Finance & Commerce
November 30, 2016
How many office buildings smell like freshly cut timber and offer a wall of mounted bike racks as a form of utilitarian art? To date, there may be only one.
This month developer Hines completed construction of T3, its seven-story 224,000-square-foot building at 323 Washington Ave. N. in the North Loop of Minneapolis. The Houston-based global real estate company touts the project as the first modern wooden office building of its size in the nation. Read more.
Largest mass timber building in U.S. opens tomorrow in Minneapolis
By Olivia Martin
The Architects Newspaper
November 29, 2016
The seven-story, 220,000-square-foot T3 office building in Minneapolis’s North Loop district will become the tallest modern wood building in the U.S. when it opens tomorrow. Designed by Michael Green Architecture and the DLR Group, the T3—which stands for Timber, Technology, Transit—features cross-laminated timber (CLT) and nail-laminated timber (NLT) clad in weathering steel. Read more.
The Architects Newspaper
November 29, 2016
The seven-story, 220,000-square-foot T3 office building in Minneapolis’s North Loop district will become the tallest modern wood building in the U.S. when it opens tomorrow. Designed by Michael Green Architecture and the DLR Group, the T3—which stands for Timber, Technology, Transit—features cross-laminated timber (CLT) and nail-laminated timber (NLT) clad in weathering steel. Read more.
Minneapolis Boasts Claim to The First Modern Tall Wood Building in the U.S.
By MGA | Michael Green Architecture
v2com
November 29, 2016
On November 30, 2016 T3 officially opens its doors.
Vancouver, Canada, 2016-11-29 - Designed by Vancouver based Michael Green Architecture (MGA) in conjunction with Architect-of-Record DLR Group, the seven storey high-rise in Minneapolis’ North Loop neighbourhood is the largest mass timber building in the United States. Read more.
v2com
November 29, 2016
On November 30, 2016 T3 officially opens its doors.
Vancouver, Canada, 2016-11-29 - Designed by Vancouver based Michael Green Architecture (MGA) in conjunction with Architect-of-Record DLR Group, the seven storey high-rise in Minneapolis’ North Loop neighbourhood is the largest mass timber building in the United States. Read more.
Sneak peek: Hines finishes wooden T3 office building in North Loop
By Nick Halter
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
November 2016
Hines has finished construction on what the real estate firm calls the first modern wooden office building of its size. The 224,000-square-foot building stands seven stories tall in the booming North Loop neighborhood, overlooking the Cedar Lake Trail. Read more.
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
November 2016
Hines has finished construction on what the real estate firm calls the first modern wooden office building of its size. The 224,000-square-foot building stands seven stories tall in the booming North Loop neighborhood, overlooking the Cedar Lake Trail. Read more.
Inside T3, the first mass timber building in the US
By Kim Slowey
Construction Dive
November 2016
With a planned opening for later this month, the seven-story, 220,000-square-foot T3 (Timber, Technology, Transit) office building in Minneapolis will be the largest contemporary wood building in the U.S., according to Architect Magazine. Most of the wood is from Pacific Northwest trees killed by the mountain pine beetle. Minnesota's building code classifies the wood as Type IV Heavy Timber. Read more.
Construction Dive
November 2016
With a planned opening for later this month, the seven-story, 220,000-square-foot T3 (Timber, Technology, Transit) office building in Minneapolis will be the largest contemporary wood building in the U.S., according to Architect Magazine. Most of the wood is from Pacific Northwest trees killed by the mountain pine beetle. Minnesota's building code classifies the wood as Type IV Heavy Timber. Read more.
Amazon nearing lease for North Loop’s new wooden office building
By Nick Halter
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
October 2016
Amazon.com is close to a deal that would have the Seattle-based e-commerce giant leasing the top two floors of the soon-to-open wooden T3 office building in the North Loop. Read more.
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
October 2016
Amazon.com is close to a deal that would have the Seattle-based e-commerce giant leasing the top two floors of the soon-to-open wooden T3 office building in the North Loop. Read more.
Is Timber the Future of Urban Construction?
By Jimmy Stamp
Smithsonian Magazine
October 2016
A celebrated architect goes out on a limb with a bold new take on building tall. From the street, the new seven-story “T3” building going up in Minneapolis looks a lot like an old warehouse: large repeating windows and weathered steel sheathing the color of brick. But it’s a revolutionary structure, and the irony is that its cutting-edge nature rests on an old-school material: wood. When T3 opens this month, it will be the tallest modern wooden building in the United States. Read more.
Smithsonian Magazine
October 2016
A celebrated architect goes out on a limb with a bold new take on building tall. From the street, the new seven-story “T3” building going up in Minneapolis looks a lot like an old warehouse: large repeating windows and weathered steel sheathing the color of brick. But it’s a revolutionary structure, and the irony is that its cutting-edge nature rests on an old-school material: wood. When T3 opens this month, it will be the tallest modern wooden building in the United States. Read more.
We think better in green buildings, Harvard study shows
By Joe Quirke
09/07/2016
A study by the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard University has shown that green buildings have a positive link to higher cognitive function for workers. The report notes that we “spend about 90% of our time indoors, and buildings have a unique ability to positively or negatively influence our health”. Read more.
09/07/2016
A study by the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard University has shown that green buildings have a positive link to higher cognitive function for workers. The report notes that we “spend about 90% of our time indoors, and buildings have a unique ability to positively or negatively influence our health”. Read more.
Barre fitness studio to open in T3
The Journal
07/05/2016
The Bar Method, a company of barre fitness studios nationwide, is opening a studio in a new office building in the North Loop. The fitness studio, the San Francisco-based company’s first in Minnesota, is being planned for Hines’ seven-story T3 project, a mass timber office building currently in construction off Washington Avenue. The Bar Method is one of the country’s leading practitioners of barre, which combines dance conditioning and isometric training, according to a new release. Read more.
07/05/2016
The Bar Method, a company of barre fitness studios nationwide, is opening a studio in a new office building in the North Loop. The fitness studio, the San Francisco-based company’s first in Minnesota, is being planned for Hines’ seven-story T3 project, a mass timber office building currently in construction off Washington Avenue. The Bar Method is one of the country’s leading practitioners of barre, which combines dance conditioning and isometric training, according to a new release. Read more.
T3 Minneapolis - Project Completion and Site Visit
StructureCraft
05/26/2016
StructureCraft has recently completed installing the timber structure for T3, a 7-story 220,000 SF office building in downtown Minneapolis. T3 is the first modern tall mass timber building in the USA, and presented unique challenges from design development to erection on site. Read more.
05/26/2016
StructureCraft has recently completed installing the timber structure for T3, a 7-story 220,000 SF office building in downtown Minneapolis. T3 is the first modern tall mass timber building in the USA, and presented unique challenges from design development to erection on site. Read more.
T3 Minneapolis – 7-story Mass Timber Office
StructureCraft
08/12/2015
Tall Wood
Tall Wood construction in North America has taken a new turn with T3 Minneapolis (timber, technology, transportation). This will be the first modern tall wood building to be built in the USA, led by the developer Hines with their vision for a new type of sustainable construction. Read more.
08/12/2015
Tall Wood
Tall Wood construction in North America has taken a new turn with T3 Minneapolis (timber, technology, transportation). This will be the first modern tall wood building to be built in the USA, led by the developer Hines with their vision for a new type of sustainable construction. Read more.
Can Timber Skyscrapers Really Help Save The Planet?
Fast Company
05/18/2016
Politicians, architects, and scientists increasingly herald timber as an Earth-saving building technology, but not everyone agrees. Read more.
05/18/2016
Politicians, architects, and scientists increasingly herald timber as an Earth-saving building technology, but not everyone agrees. Read more.
Klobuchar helps introduce wood buildings bill
Brainerd Dispatch
05/02/2016
Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Monday helped introduce the Timber Innovation Act, bipartisan legislation designed to help accelerate research, development and construction of wood buildings in the United States. Read more.
05/02/2016
Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Monday helped introduce the Timber Innovation Act, bipartisan legislation designed to help accelerate research, development and construction of wood buildings in the United States. Read more.
Into the Wood: America's First Modern Tall Timber Building Rises in Minneapolis
MinnPost
01/19/2016
They're called nail laminated timber panels, NLT for short, and they helped make some construction history on Monday. Read more.
01/19/2016
They're called nail laminated timber panels, NLT for short, and they helped make some construction history on Monday. Read more.
Hines' Wooden T3 Office Building Starts Seeing Timber
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
01/19/2016
Wooden timber beams are now being installed at Hines' new seven-story T3 office building near Target Field in Minneapolis. The project is one of the first modern wooden buildings of its size to be built in the U.S. Read more.
01/19/2016
Wooden timber beams are now being installed at Hines' new seven-story T3 office building near Target Field in Minneapolis. The project is one of the first modern wooden buildings of its size to be built in the U.S. Read more.
Hines' Timber and Brick T3 Office Building First in City to Gain Wired Certification
Star Tribune
10/14/2015
International real estate developer Hines is giving the City of Lakes several "firsts" with its 220,000-square-foot building in the North Loop neighborhood, including the first commercial property in the U.S. -- let alone in Minneapolis -- to use an engineered wood material used for its interior and exterior. Read more.
10/14/2015
International real estate developer Hines is giving the City of Lakes several "firsts" with its 220,000-square-foot building in the North Loop neighborhood, including the first commercial property in the U.S. -- let alone in Minneapolis -- to use an engineered wood material used for its interior and exterior. Read more.
T3 Becomes First WiredScore Certified Building in Minneapolis
Hines
10/13/2015
(MINNEAPOLIS) – Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today that the 220,000 square foot T3 office development has become the first office building in Minneapolis to receive preliminary WiredScore certification. T3 (timber, transit, and technology) is an innovative seven-story mass timber office building developed by Hines in the fast growing North Loop neighborhood of downtown Minneapolis. Read more.
10/13/2015
(MINNEAPOLIS) – Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today that the 220,000 square foot T3 office development has become the first office building in Minneapolis to receive preliminary WiredScore certification. T3 (timber, transit, and technology) is an innovative seven-story mass timber office building developed by Hines in the fast growing North Loop neighborhood of downtown Minneapolis. Read more.
Hines Breaks Ground on T3 in Minneapolis
Hines
07/27/2015
(MINNEAPOLIS) – Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today the start of construction on the 220,000 square foot T3 office development. T3 (timber, transit, and technology) is an innovative seven-story mass timber office building developed by Hines in the fast growing North Loop neighborhood of downtown Minneapolis. T3 will be open in early fall 2016. Read more.
07/27/2015
(MINNEAPOLIS) – Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today the start of construction on the 220,000 square foot T3 office development. T3 (timber, transit, and technology) is an innovative seven-story mass timber office building developed by Hines in the fast growing North Loop neighborhood of downtown Minneapolis. T3 will be open in early fall 2016. Read more.
Hines taps JLL and C. Chase to Lease Wood Tower
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
05/01/2015
Hines has retained Jones Lang LaSalle to market the office space and The C. Chase Co. to lease retail space in its new seven-story North Loop office project called T3. Read more.
05/01/2015
Hines has retained Jones Lang LaSalle to market the office space and The C. Chase Co. to lease retail space in its new seven-story North Loop office project called T3. Read more.
Minneapolis' Office Building of the Future Will Be Made of, Uh, Wood?
MINNPOST
02/24/2015
When the Hines development company unveiled plans for a new office building in the North Loop section of Minneapolis last November, they received the requisite amount of coverage, even a write-up in the Wall Street Journal. Read more.
02/24/2015
When the Hines development company unveiled plans for a new office building in the North Loop section of Minneapolis last November, they received the requisite amount of coverage, even a write-up in the Wall Street Journal. Read more.
Towering Ambition: Tallest Wood Office Building
The Wall Street Journal
11/12/2014
For the past 100 years, virtually all buildings over a few stories tall have been constructed out of concrete and steel. But some architects and builders are promoting an alternative they are positioning as environmentally friendlier: good old-fashioned wood. Read more.
11/12/2014
For the past 100 years, virtually all buildings over a few stories tall have been constructed out of concrete and steel. But some architects and builders are promoting an alternative they are positioning as environmentally friendlier: good old-fashioned wood. Read more.
