Daily Hive editor Kenneth Chan gives a detailed introduction of the Perkins+Will-designed Canada Earth Tower, a proposed timber tower that could rise up to 40 stories and accommodate around 200 residential units.

"The structure would be predominantly made out of fire-resistant wood, specifically cross-laminated timber (CLT)," Chan writes. "Floor plates, structural columns, and exteriors will use wood materials, while a concrete core containing the elevators and emergency staircase will be incorporated for seismic and fire safety reasons."

Vancouver was once home to the planet's tallest wood building, when the 18-story, 178-foot UBC Brock Commons tower opened in 2017, but it lost the title in the following year to another nation with a noted economic and ecological interest in pushing timber as preferred building material—Norway's Mjøstårnet (Mjøsa Tower) topped out at 85.4 meters (280 feet) in 2018.

Perkins+Will made headlines in 2016 when the firm unveiled designs for River Beech Tower, a proposal for an entirely conceptual 80-story residential timber skyscraper in Chicago.