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摘要

Vienna might have meant nothing to Ultravox but not so for timber construction. The city has given the green light for an ambitious project that should help change how architects -and more crucially clients and the public -think about timber-frame construction. Dubbed 'The Plyscraper', the £44-million HoHo Wien, will stand 84m tall in the Seestadt Aspern area, and include office spaces, apartments and a hotel, with 76 per cent of it using timber construction. Developers are keen to point out it will save 2,800 tonnes of CO_2 emissions, when compared with a concrete counterpart.