Hybrid construction would enable a lighter and more sustainable skyscraper
Hybrid City Challenge, organised by Metsä Wood in 2020, called for hybrid solutions to make construction more sustainable while maintaining efficiency using current building methods. The first prize was won by a design called “WHAT IF… New York’s SEAGRAM Building was a HYBRID building” by architect Jose Gustavo Garzon. Combining Metsä Wood’s Kerto[®] LVL (laminated veneer lumber) with steel and concrete structures resulted a lighter and more sustainable skyscraper. The Seagram Building located in Manhattan, New York, is regarded as a functional architecture masterpiece of Ludwig Mies van