[DUMBGRUNT]

The good old triangle, the ONLY stable polygon. Nudge a rectangle a bit and it becomes a parallelogram.

Also, recall the original McCormick Place, all steel and concrete, burned to the ground in about 20 minutes.

Eighty floors and a hollow core atrium? Service shafts and stairs will eat any possible profit. Fun to think about but unlikely to ever see it.

[Bob434]

i built a wood stove once, but it burned up

[Dr. Sivana]

I don’t know if I want a tall wooden structure designed by a guy named Snapp.

[dainbramaged]

I hope they use pressure treated lumber, it lasts a bit longer.

[Chewbarkah]

The Elton John ditty with “live their lives like a candle in the wind” can be the residents’ official song.

[yarddog]

It still seems hard to believe that the British Mosquito bomber was made mostly of wood. It was a totally successful design capable of high speeds. (Over 400 MPH).

The Germans tried the same thing but their glue technology was not up to the task.

[DUMBGRUNT]

No trees were killed:

The building that was supposed to be fireproof and “outlast Rome’s glories” was consumed frighteningly fast. Smoke was reported by janitors at 2:05 a.m. on Jan. 16. By 2:30 a.m., when Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn arrived, he upgraded it to a five-alarm fire. Eighteen minutes later, he ordered the first special alarm.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-per-flash-mccormickplacefire-0205-20120205-story.html

[Magnum44]

Triangle are medieval technology....

[Magnum44]

Triangles are medieval technology...

[LouieFisk]

“Eighteen-story buildings made of timber already exist in Vancouver and Minneapolis”
—
Dunno about Vancouver, but I think the tallest wood building in Minneapolis is the T3 building - which is 7 stories.
Though 18 stories would make one heck of a bonfire if the wiring goes haywire.

[Blue House Sue]

The Termite Tower.

[from occupied ga]

[rellimpank]

-- A triangle is a much more structurally sturdy form than a rectangle,

--and engineering principle probably pre-dating writing--

[treetopsandroofs]

Whole towns and forts used to be made of wood. Savannah, St. Augustine, Chicago...

Gee, for some reason, they aren’t anymore.

[Larry Lucido]

[Hot Tabasco]

Termites and beavers come to mind........

[PIF]

You can’t build that stuff out of wood! The forests will be decimated or worse we will all die from lack of O2, and then the building will burn oh the pyromaniacs will be having a heyday.

[gaijin]

Build a WOOD skyscraper around MUSLIMS, eh...?

Gosh, I wonder how that will work out.

[American in Israel]

If I cut a square diagonally into two triangles is it stronger than the square... no...

Me thinks the architect is from the P T Barnum school of salesmanship.

[CommerceComet]

I'm not sure about building a tower out of wood. A small base relative to the height is going to put a lot of stress on the wood supports that cement or steel would handle much better. The Minneapolis building wasn't that tall relative to its broad base so I wouldn't see any inherent weakness in that structure. The new engineered wood beams are quite strong and would likely be reliable as long as you don't get ridiculous. It would seem that the natural flex of wood would be advantageous in earthquake zones.

Just my uneducated opinion but like George Constanza, I always wanted to pretend to be an architect.

[American in Israel]

The how to build out of wood has been solved, the WHY however...