Concrete is everywhere, but it’s bad for the planet, generating large amounts of carbon dioxide. Creative alternatives are in the pipeline, says Guardian environment correspondent Fiona Harvey
They call them plyscrapers: the sudden emergence of tall buildings constructed almost entirely from timber. Vancouver, Vienna and Brumunddal in Norway have all claimed recently to have the tallest wooden building in the world, and now Tokyo has its own designs on the informal title. Share your photos of beautiful or ugly concrete Read more Making buildings from wood may seem like a rather medieval idea.
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