Toronto's towering structures of steel and concrete are getting some new company in an old-fashioned building medium reborn ...

Particularly on the increase are wood-hybrid structures utilizing timber, steel frames and reinforced concrete. Data from the Forestry Agency show at least 22 such buildings with six or more ...

which were often “brick and beam” construction—a frame of heavy wooden beams supporting exterior brick walls. As buildings became ever taller, though, builders turned to concrete and steel ...