Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced - Canadian Architect
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Mar 15, 2021
The functionality, beauty and diversity of wood is illustrated in the wide range of projects that won this yearâs awards. With an increasing focus on renewable materials and net-zero buildings, the use of wood is a solution embraced by many of the worldâs best architects and engineers.
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Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced
Ottawa, ON, February 22, 2021 â Wood Design & Building magazine has announced the winning projects from the coveted Wood Design & Building Awards program. Launched in 1984, the awards program recognizes and celebrates the outstanding work of visionaries around the world who inspire excellence in wood architecture.
Maryland house wrapped in Shou Sugi Ban timber nods to its context
Maryland house wrapped in Shou Sugi Ban timber nods to its context
Franzen House, a new-build home by Robert Gurney Architect in Maryland, USA, is clad in Nakamoto Forestry Shou Sugi Ban charred timber in harmony with its wooded slope context
This new build home by Robert Gurney Architect in Maryland, USA, sits on a steep, wooded slope, looking towards the Potomac River in the distance. Its natural setting is matched by its wooden and minimalist architecture; Franzen House is a fairly reserved rectangular box, clad entirely in charred timber planks by Nakamoto Forestry, in the traditional Japanese style of Shou Sugi Ban.
Minecraft inspires architects to design real-world modular cabin
Minecraft inspires architects to design real-world modular cabin
The Minecraft egaming phenomenon has prompted architects JaK Studio to design HOM3 – a modular cabin for flexible use, inspired by Minecraft house ideas
Egaming, and in particular the intricate world of sandbox game Minecraft, has inspired London archicture practice JaK Studio to create a new modular cabin concept. The young, award winning firm has launched Home Office Module Cubed (HOM3), a flexible design that helps cater to a variety of residential – and not only – needs.
Its secret? The product is completely customisable, aiming to respond to a very wide range of requirements. It can become from a yoga retreat-in-the-back-garden to a home office, but it could also be adapted to fit the needs of more than homes. Its creators envisage it providing valuable square footage, usage options and design style to offices, schools, play areas a
Partisans creates an undulating Ontario guest house
Partisans creates an undulating Ontario guest house
An undulating wooden structure makes for a striking guest house, designed by Canadian architecture studio Partisans, in the grounds of a Southern Ontario home
A heritage estate nestled among 200-year-old maple and oak trees in Canada’s Southern Ontario region might sound like a dream come true, but for the food and beverage investor and innovator Scott Friedmann, owning a Georgian Revival mansion with multiple structures was not without its perils. After an electrical fire broke out in the property’s guest cottage in 2017, burning it down, Friedmann turned to the Toronto-based architecture firm Partisans to replace the structure with something unexpected.
Best Music Venue: Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
Best Music Venue: Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
The Floating Music Hub in Cape Verde, by NLÉ, scoops Best Music Venue at the 2021 Wallpaper Design Awards
Image: Ojima Abalaka
The island nation of Cape Verde, off the west coast of Africa, may be tiny, but it has an outsized influence. Once a slave port, it is now an important international commercial hub, and a cultural melting pot, bridging African and European traditions. It was this rich cultural heritage that architect Kunlé Adeyemi – founder of Amsterdam- and Lagos-based studio NLÉ – and Samba Bathily – the Mali-born sustainable solutions pioneer – wanted to honour and amplify when they first started discussing working together in 2018. Adeyemi recalls: ‘We wanted a scheme to use as a point of global connection back to the [African] continent, using music, arts, culture and hospitality’.