Amazon's new delivery station in Elkhart, Indiana, looks nothing like the concrete and steel boxes that dot America's logistics landscape. The 171,000-square-foot facility is built almost entirely from mass timber, using over 500,000 board feet of southern yellow pine to create walls and ceilings that breathe warmth into an industrial space. ZGF Architects designed the

It’s green washing at its best, but I’m a big fan of these wood building initiatives.

That said, it’s still fuck Amazon!

  • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    Hm, the photos looks like the exterior walls and roofing are plywood, while the floor is concrete, columns are steel, and roof trusses are steel. And the upper half of the wall is glass. So how much of it is wood, really? 30%? If I lived in a house made of these materials, I would not claim to live in a house built of wood.