Wooden architecture
Buildings constructed totally or mainly out of wood.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Ahmadabad | Traditional houses (pol houses) are built using composite construction techniques with timber and brick-lime. (AB ev) | |
| Ancient Kyoto | ||
| Ancient Nara | ||
| Bridgetown | Chattel Houses | |
| Bryggen | ||
| Centennial Hall | 17th century wooden church at Szczytnicki Park | |
| Changdeokgung Palace Complex | ||
| Churches of Chiloé | ||
| Churches of Peace | ||
| Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake | domestic and religious wooden buildings (AB ev) | |
| Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland | ||
| Engelsberg Ironworks | ||
| Fujian Tulou | ||
| Fujisan | Fujisan' shrines | |
| Gammelstad | ||
| Gordion | "wooden burial chambers" (AB ev), the one at the Midas tomb holds is "the oldest wooden structure ever found in Anatolia, and perhaps even in the world" (see link) | |
| Great Smoky Mountains | Historical Log Cabins at Cades Cove | |
| Gusuku of Ryukyu | Shuri Castle | |
| Haeinsa Temple | ||
| Hahoe and Yangdong | ||
| Hallstatt-Dachstein | boat houses | |
| Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region | Gorin and Egami Churches | |
| Himeji-jo | ||
| Hiraizumi | Chusonji Temple | |
| Horyu-ji Area | ||
| Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works | "The houses were simple, single storey, structures built of Douglas Fir" (AB ev) (the theatre and church are also built of wood) | |
| Imperial Palace | ||
| Istanbul | Zeyrek houses | |
| Itsukushima Shrine | ||
| Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos | Except for the church in San José, all churches are made out of wood | |
| Jongmyo Shrine | ||
| Karlskrona | Amiralitetskyrkan wooden church | |
| Kernavė | wooden chapel near the church | |
| Kii Mountain Range | 3 Great Kumano Shrines, part of Kii - Koyasan | |
| Kizhi Pogost | ||
| Kuldiga | "Its historic urban fabric includes structures of traditional local log architecture" (OUV) | |
| L'Anse aux Meadows | "consists of eight timber-framed turf structures" (OUV) | |
| Lower German Limes | "Thanks to the outstanding preservation of organic remains and to the repeated rebuilding of vulnerable forts, Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes constitutes a showcase of Roman construction in timber. (...) The fort of Valkenburg-Centrum is internationally renowned for its standing timber remains, but the nomination includes several sites with similar preservation conditions." (Nomination file, p. 44) | |
| Luang Prabang | ||
| Modernist Kaunas | Garden City Area: "low density area with brick and wooden houses" (AB ev) | |
| Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha | its ancient wooden temples | |
| Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan | its wooden shrines and temples | |
| Mount Wutai | Main hall of Nanchan Monastery and the East Hall of Fuguang Monastery | |
| Mountain Resort, Chengde | ||
| Namhansanseong | Key wooden structures within the fortress. Temporary Palace - Haenggung, Command Post Sueojangdae, Shrine Sungryeoljeon - Cheongryangdang - Hyeonjeolsa, Arsenal Chimgwaejeong, Martial Arts Training Hall- Yeonmugwan, Pavilion Jisudang, Janggyeongsa Temple. - official website | |
| Nessebar | ||
| Nikko | ||
| Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin | Église Sainte-Cécile de Raismes and its rectory | |
| Okinoshima Island | Wooden shrines | |
| Old Rauma | ||
| Old Town Lunenburg | preserving the wooden architecture of the houses and public buildings, some of which date from the 18th century (OUV) | |
| Old Town of Lijiang | Timber-framed Naxi domestic dwellings | |
| Olympic National Park | ||
| Paramaribo | ||
| Petäjävesi Old Church | ||
| Potsdam | Alexandrowska | |
| Prague | Wooden church on Petrin hill | |
| Prehistoric Pile Dwellings | ||
| Pyu Ancient Cities | Beikthano, ... combining brick and wooden architecture (AB ev) | |
| Riga | "the 19th century wooden architecture make it of Outstanding Universal Value" (OUV) | |
| Royal Joseon Tombs | All Joseon tombs contain a T-shaped shrine. "The T-shaped shrine reflected traditional Korean wooden architecture and was built with round wooden pillars erected on neatly dressed cornerstones. The wooden beams were buttressed with simple wing-like brackets." - nomination file | |
| Røros | ||
| SGang Gwaay | ||
| Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries | "The 13th century Hall of Infinite Life is one of the oldest buildings in Korea and an important example of East Asian wooden architecture. Beopjusa contains a large multi-story wooden pavilion which is the largest in Korea." - ICOMOS | |
| Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple | Bulguksa Temple | |
| Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies | ||
| Sewell Mining Town | "its timber buildings, based on American models and many painted in vivid hues of green, yellow, red and blue, cascade down steep slopes" (AB ev) | |
| Shirakawa-go and Gokayama | ||
| Sighisoara | Scholars' Stairs | |
| Skogskyrkogarden | The Woodland Chapel | |
| St. Petersburg | Peter the Great's Summer Cabin | |
| Strasbourg | Kamerzell House (the oldest in Strassburg) | |
| Studley Royal Park | Temple of Fame: "The temple of Fame is a folly in both senses of the word as it appears to be made from stone, but is in fact painted wood." | |
| Temple of Heaven | ||
| The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier | Cabanon de Le Corbusier, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin | |
| The Porticoes of Bologna | The wooden porticoes of Bologna are a direct, rare and precious documentation of the medieval building systems. The most common construction technique is the opus craticium, which involves a wooden frame made up of vertical uprights, horizontal crossbeams and diagonal stiffening elements. (nom file) | |
| Trang An | two temples of King Dinh and King Le with their traditional wooden architecture (AB ev) | |
| Tr’ondëk-Klondike | Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site (group of 17 historic wooden buildings), Yukon Hotel National Historic Site of Canada 1898 (Dawson City), Former Territorial Court House National Historic Site 1901 (Dawson City), Old Territorial Administration Building National Historic Site of Canada 1901 (Dawson City), St. Paul's Anglican Church National Historic Site of Canada 1902 (Dawson City), St. Barnabas Anglican Church 1908 (Moosehide) | |
| Urnes Stave Church | ||
| Vegaøyan | "Dwellings were built of logs, clad externally with vertical planks, traditionally roofed in turf" (AB ev) | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | The squeri (shipyards) | |
| Verla Groundwood and Board Mill | ||
| Visby | • a number of wooden buildings survive. Notable among these are the Old Residence |
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| Vlkolinec | ||
| Westminster | Westminster Hall by Hugh Herland | |
| Wooden Churches of Maramures | ||
| Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska | ||
| Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians | ||
| Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia | "The mosques have a structural system whereby the exterior envelopes are of masonry but the rows of columns (hypostyle) that support the flat ceilings and the roofs are all of wood" (AB ev) | |
| Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region | ||
| Yellowstone | Old Faithful Inn, the largest wooden hotel in the world | |
| Yungang Grottoes |
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