Ciara
@CiaraNi@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 11 months ago

Once again, #AltText has made me look closer and be wiser. I’ve been watching this building go up. I decided it has enough finished windows now to be allowed on Mastodon on a Friday.

I looked it up so I could put the height in the image description and discovered to my surprise that it's a wooden building. It turns out that it’s been named Træ (Danish for Tree), so once the sign goes up, I suppose it would have twigged with me eventually.

#Aarhus #ClimateDiary
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

Looking sharply up at Træ, a new office block in the southern end of Aarhus Harbour. A crane towering over us to the left underlines the fact that it’s still under construction. It will be 20 storeys and 78 metres high, making it Denmark's tallest wooden building. Concrete and glass are also used and lots of the material is reused or recycled. It is quite narrow and cylindrical. The cladding is very striking, sort of tiled or patchworked, brown and black areas dotted with reflective silver patches that snake down the façade almost like lightning, shining out across the city in different lights. Some of the tiles are made of old wind turbine blades. Lendager Architects designed it to be sustainable and to capture C02.
Looking sharply up at Træ, a new office block in the southern end of Aarhus Harbour. A crane towering over us to the left underlines the fact that it’s still under construction. It will be 20 storeys and 78 metres high, making it Denmark's tallest wooden building. Concrete and glass are also used and lots of the material is reused or recycled. It is quite narrow and cylindrical. The cladding is very striking, sort of tiled or patchworked, brown and black areas dotted with reflective silver patches that snake down the façade almost like lightning, shining out across the city in different lights. Some of the tiles are made of old wind turbine blades. Lendager Architects designed it to be sustainable and to capture C02.
Looking sharply up at Træ, a new office block in the southern end of Aarhus Harbour. A crane towering over us to the left underlines the fact that it’s still under construction. It will be 20 storeys and 78 metres high, making it Denmark's tallest wooden building. Concrete and glass are also used and lots of the material is reused or recycled. It is quite narrow and cylindrical. The cladding is very striking, sort of tiled or patchworked, brown and black areas dotted with reflective silver patches that snake down the façade almost like lightning, shining out across the city in different lights. Some of the tiles are made of old wind turbine blades. Lendager Architects designed it to be sustainable and to capture C02.