Blog Practice Projects Contact	Project Title Architect Client Archive	Stadthaus Architect: Client: Location: Status: Waugh Thistleton Architects Telford Homes Hoxton, London Completion January 2009
Images: 1 2 3 4 5 Enlarge image			The engineering of the tallest residential timber structure in the world has extended Technikers expertise in wooden building construction. The solid laminated lumber tower comprises nine storeys of apartments developed as a cross-wall structure. The load-bearing elements are very strong and stiff and design issues centred on providing resistance to progressive collapse and good acoustic separation between apartments and circulation areas. One hundred thirty tonnes of softwood, delivered to London in eight lorry loads from Austria has offset 50 tonnes of carbon.