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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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) | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Shirakawa-go and Gokayama | ||
| 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) | |
| Urnes Stave Church | ||
| 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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