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Impressive bending-active timber gridshell

28 July 2026

Impressive pictures follow of the bending-active Assembly Atlanta timber gridshell being lifted into place!

Likened to a timber trampoline (and a Pringle), the two gridshell layers (4×4 dimensional lumber) were laid out flat adjacent to the doubly curved glulam ring beam and lifted in a matter of 1.5 hours. It was incredible to see how light and flexible the grid was—even at an 82ft clearspan.

WoodWorks Issue – 28 Jul 2026

Welcome

Greetings from your WoodWorks team. Atlassian Central in Sydney has topped out as the world’s tallest hybrid timber building, setting a new benchmark for low-carbon, mass-timber high-rise design. Watch the great flyover.

Impressive pictures follow of the bending-active Assembly Atlanta timber gridshell being lifted into place — I think it looks like a Pringle myself.

This catalogue marks a significant step forward in the world of hybrid and timber structures, prefabrication, and design for disassembly. It introduces a range of innovative, standardized solutions that seamlessly bridge the tolerances between timber, concrete, and steel.

Who said firefighters didn’t like wood? In Bernstein, Austria, the new fire station shows how wood can serve essential public infrastructure and combine performance, durability and quality of space.

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