Worlds' tallest timber tower replaced by forest growth "in less than 25 minutes"

The final case study in our Timber Revolution series is Ascent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Korb + Associates Architects, which has been certified as the world's tallest mass-timber building.
Sited in a neighbourhood near the lakefront, the 25-storey tower has a structure made almost entirely from cross-laminated (CLT) and glued-laminated timber (glulam) except for the base, elevator and stair shafts.
Tallest title "never our goal"
When completed in 2022, the development team said that it had opti