Luke Barley

Take three countries where trees and humans compete for space: Japan with its ancient conifer forests and multilayered subtropical island habitat; Britain, where the trees that made it back after the ice age – birch, aspen, oak, ash and lime – hang on, barely, in combes and ghylls, hedgerows and deer parks; and Canada, with its boreal forests of pine, fir and spruce stretching from the tundra to the sea.

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Architects: Showcase your next project through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletter. Evolving behavioral trends in workplaces around the world have spurred a demand for increasingly flexible, dynamic office spaces. As a consequence, modular design has never been more popular. Product sets that can transform and grow according to the changing needs of the user are being harnessed more and more by both architects and manufacturers, particularly for commercial needs.