Vancouver studio Michael Green Architects has released plans for a development in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which includes a mass-timber skyscraper that would be the tallest in the world if completed.
Set to be built alongside the Marcus Center in central Milwaukee, the multi-tower scheme led by developer Neutral is currently going through the city's approvals process.
Michael Green Architecture's (MGA) plans for the development include office space, retail, hotel, residential and public plazas. It would be built on the site of a parking structure for the Marcus Center, a brutalist mid-century structure designed by Harry Weese.
Michael Green Architecture has designed the largest mass-timber building in the world
Current renderings for the development show a 55-storey tower made principally from mass-timber elements, which would make it the tallest engineered-wood skyscraper in the world if completed. It would unseat the 86.6 metres (284 feet), Ascent tower by Korb + Associates Architects, the current tallest, which is also in Milwaukee.

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MGA founder Michael Green told Dezeen that his studio's tower would build on some of those approvals and that the city of Milwaukee is "on board" with the project and mass timber.
The skyscraper would have a wide form with a sloped bulkhead that appears terraced and covered with greenery in renderings.
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