Research suggests that tall wooden buildings have a 20 per cent reduction in both their carbon and energy footprints. Shop has designed a 10storey residential tower that is set to become New York's tallest building constructed from structural timber.The building will be 69stories high and 794 feet tall and located on Jackson Avenue between Orchard and Queens streets in Long Island City. The building, called the Orchard and located at 2748 Jackson Ave. Use sustainably harvested wood to build tall buildings. This will allow us to pump carbon from the atmosphere and store it both in forests and in cities. Bowne House located in the Flushing section of Queens. Built in the 1600's. Built in 1943 to house U.S. Navy blimps, Hangar B is the largest clearspan wooden structure in the world.