The top 10 mass-timber buildings of 2025
As the material continues to grow in popularity, we take a look at mass-timber apartments, academic buildings and even an Apple Store made with cross-laminated timber and glulam, for our 2025 Review.
This angular building is located at the University of Arkansas as part of the school's Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design and contains a workshop on the ground floor with double-height ceilings.
It is Grafton Architects' first mass-timber building, with the studio calling it an "amazingly attractive challenge".
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Apple Miami Worldcenter, USA, by Apple
Dezeen exclusively revealed Apple's first mass-timber building this year, which was designed by the brand's in-house team and is located in Miami.
"As a free-standing building with sizable spans, we wanted an efficient structural solution that could be sourced locally in the region and help reduce the overall carbon footprint of the project," Apple retail design lead BJ Siegel told Dezeen.
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Rubenstein Treehouse, USA, by Studio Gang
Studio Gang completed the Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard's Enterprise Research Campus in Allston, which sits just outside of Boston proper.
The building is a social hub, and was designed around two huge concrete pillars, with a mass-timber structure that branches around them.
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SuperBungalows on Marathon, USA, by SuperLA
This nine-unit apartment building in Los Angeles was created using prefabricated panels and a structure made of cross-laminated timber and glued laminated posts.
According to the team, it is the first time this type of system was used to build a multi-family project in southern California.
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The Centre for Health, Denmark, by Dorte Mandrup
The Centre for Health is located in De Gamles By neighbourhood in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, and was designed to be a warm, inviting environment for a diabetes treatment regimen.
"Timber was a requirement not only for structural reasons, but also to add materiality, warmth, and tactility throughout," project director Christine Fuglsang-Jacobsen told Dezeen.
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Wandering House, Switzerland, by Lionel Ballmer Architectes
This residential annex in rural Switzerland was made from a concrete base topped with an upper level made of CLT panels that was clad externally in charred-timber planks.
Both inside and outside the house, a distinct line is drawn where the two structural materials meet.
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Walmart Home Office, USA, by Gensler
Gensler took the lead on the design of several office buildings for the Walmart headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, which were built using mass timber.
"Walmart's new Home Office is an expression of their culture, values, and identity, which also lies at the heart of their decision to use mass timber at an unprecedented scale across their campus," said Gensler principal Johnny Kousparis.
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Valckensteyn, The Netherlands, Powerhouse Company
Powerhouse Company completed this block of affordable housing in Rotterdam using a mass timber structure.
According to the team, it is the first residential, mass-timber building in the city and references the area's post-war social housing typology.
Find out more about Valckensteyn ›
Wood Up, France, by Local Architecture Network
The Wood Up apartment building in Paris is "one of first buildings in France to surpass the typical height limits for timber constructions", according to design studio Local Architecture Network.
The 14-storey building contains 132 timber-framed apartments and is made of a Douglas fir, beech and spruce mass timber structure.
Lyncott CLT Building, Mexico, by PPAA
This building in Querétaro, Mexico, was built for dairy manufacturer Lyncott and is the first building constructed predominantly from mass timber in Mexico, according to the team.
"Lyncott introduces a milestone in Mexican architecture by becoming the first building with an all-wood CLT structure in the country," said PPAA.
Find out more about Lyncott CLT Building ›
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