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Timber Tower featured in DETAIL Magazine

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Our design for the NIOA Timber Tower has been featured in DETAIL Magazine.

The article Wooden Office Building by Kirk in Brisbane by Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Detail, Jakob Schoof, features the Timber Tower and its' Mass Engineered Timber construction.

The Timber Tower

KIRK's Timber Tower design for NIOA is an experimental project featuring Australia's first multi-storey commercial building utilising CLT and GLT wholly sourced from Australia.

The 5-level structure was erected within 28 days, with the entire project including fitout for 90 staff completed within 7 months.

Read more on the KIRK designed Timber Tower on the project page.

To read more on our low carbon initiatives and projects visit our Insights and Portfolio pages.

Photography by Scott Burrows.

The narrow building site eventually led the architects to an unconventional solution: both longitudinal walls consist of load-bearing panels of cross-laminated timber. Joists of glulam timber have been set atop these, to be topped in turn with ceiling slabs of CLT. Striking K-shaped diagonal struts behind the glazed building front reinforce the building.

Jakob Schoof
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Detail

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Photography by Scott Burrows of the KIRK designed NIOA Timber Tower, located in Brisbane Australia. Image depicts 5-level commercial office building at dust with the interior office spaces lit up with golden light and CLT timber structure visible from the ground floor street view. Surrounding compound buildings are silhouetted in dark slate and a concrete driveway with minimal landscaping shapes the entry level.

KIRK design of Timber Tower for NIOA featured in ArchitectureAU

KIRK's Award-winning design for the Timber Tower for NIOA has been featured in ArchitectureAU. The experimental design is the first Australian multi-storey commercial building with a full MET (Mass Engineered Timber) Structure utilising CLT and GLT wholly sourced from Australia.

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