ARCHITECT‘s Katharine Keane reports that Google affiliate Sidewalk Labs released new renderings of the firm’s Toronto Quayside smart-city project by Norewgian architecture firm Snøhetta and London-based Heatherwick Studio. The designs depict mixed-use structures constructed largely using mass-timber which, according to a blog post bySidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff, will be sourced from a tall-timber factory in Ontario built specifically to help complete the Quayside project. The development will include 2,500 housing units, 1,000 of which will be rented below market rates. See more images on ARCHITECT’s Project Gallery. [Sidewalk Labs]
Menlo Park, Calif.–based technology and construction giant Katerra announced a new suite of building material and software products including cross-laminated timber panels, a bathroom kit designed to be assembled in one to two days, and an energy platform to replace electrical closets. [Katerra]
