This wooden 10-story office building wiggles to withstand earthquakes

As visitors head into downtown Vancouver through the city’s False Creek Flats neighborhood, the first thing they’ll see is the Hive: a 10-story office building built out of wood and shaped like a giant honeycomb. Beneath its webbed exterior, the building is hiding a clever design system that keeps it safe from earthquakes by allowing it to wiggle, shake, and settle.  The Hive, designed by the Toronto-based architecture studio Dialog, is the tallest seismic-force-resisting building made f...