Powerhouse Company completes Europe's first mass-timber academic building

Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has created the Marga Klompé Building at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, is "the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood".
Situated on a forested university campus in Tilburg, the cuboid building has a mass timber structure and facades clad in Portuguese stone.
Natural stone clads the exterior
The main structure and internal wood finishes were made from pine, while the external columns punctuating glazing on the