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Harvard opens stunning Treehouse conference center

The David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University – a recently completed mass timber structure designed by Studio Gang and built by Consigli and Smoot Construction Company of Washington, D.C. – features incredible millwork from Mark Richey Woodworking.

A conference center and social hub, the new building’s interior is all exposed wood, branching up over three floors. Mark Richey utilized various Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified woods to help Harvard meet the world’s most ambitious green building standard, the Living Building Challenge.

Exterior planking is Alaskan yellow cedar. Interior handrails are solid white oak. A reception desk features random match rift white oak veneer and solid surfacing. An impressive, suspended ceiling in the third floor Canopy Hall main events space is a poplar core plywood with exposed edges and three-dimensional wall paneling is solid white oak wood and veneer.

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Met Museum of Art wing gets refreshed look

Visitors to the redesigned Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art have a place to rest and enjoy thanks to the efforts of WallGoldfinger, WHY Architects, and The Met.

The space reopened to the public at the end of May and situated between carefully curated exhibits in the reimagined museum are solid white oak benches by the WallGoldfinger/Mark Richey Woodworking team. Benches are built with soft radiuses and stained a warm grey that nicely blends with flooring and the space's bright, neutral color palette, putting focus on artifacts rather than decor.

See more of WHY's effort to redesign for an expanded collection of the arts of Africa, Oceania, the Americas

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Top photo courtesy of WHY and the Metropolitan Museum of Art