The United States has a new center for tall timber towers – and it's not NYC or Chicago, as you might assume – but Milwaukee.

The US city of Milwaukee is already home to the world’s tallest timber tower ... The proposed tower will still use concrete foundations and steel components to make up the elevator cores ...

Over the last few months, we have seen a surge in large timber structures being constructed across the globe claiming to be the biggest, the tallest, or the first of their kind—for example ...

All that said, there are still safety limits for how high architects can build structures solely from mass timber. In 2021, new International Building Code (IBC) standards limited mass timber-only ...