A downtown Milwaukee apartment high-rise that would use high-grade timber, not steel, for its frame has won Plan Commission approval. The 21-story, 205-unit development, named Ascent, would be one of ...

The development will include 199 homes, 3,770 square meters of office space and 500 square meters of retail outlets. Sou Fujimoto Architects, who is in charge of the entire development, collaborated ...

Jarpawanted to create a tower whose structure would be self-supporting and would not require external additions for support. He turned to a jointed grid-shell system, which would not only provide for ...

Construction began last month in Milwaukee on the 25-story Ascent, which will have a hybrid timber-and-concrete frame. The design team for Ascent—a 284-ft-tall apartment building just getting under ...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Construction of Ascent, a 25-story mass timber building, is underway in downtown Milwaukee, and it's beginning to overtake nearby buildings. When completed the 284-foot residential ...