Innovation

This set of three small buildings and the spaces between provides a second home for a young family within a forest clearing overlooking Golden Bay, at the top of New Zealand’s South Island.

Clare Design created an engaging, environmentally advantaged solution to a complex brief, incorporating a lightweight engineered timber structure in Library at The Dock

Archiblox lead the world with their collaborative creation of the first Carbon Positive House; sustainably sourced timber helping to minimise the embodied energy in construction.

Bent wooden members surround both the interior space and exterior cladding of this petite chapel in the heart of Helsinki.

A modern high school in Williamstown, Victoria makes use of timber to good effect as flooring, internal linings, external cladding and exposed structure.

Like so many designers from the North American West Coast, with its abundant Douglas fir and western red cedar forests, Keith Baker requires no encouragement to use timber and nor, he says, do most of his clients.

The Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat at Tallebudgera in southern Queensland will eventually include more than 40 treatment rooms, numerous preparation areas and relaxation zones.

The client’s awareness that timber can become more beautiful with time and proper maintenance enabled this deceptively simple Colombian country home to be built.

An innovative combination of re-cycled hardwood and LVL has been used to create a factory prefabricated timber pavilion for a community garden in Melbourne.

Presented as a corridor of archways, this ‘journey of time’ creates a series of delayed thresholds, or framed scenes.

A series of architecturally distinctive timber-based art studios form the basis of a sociological and economic experiment off the Canadian east coast

A landscape master plan and architectural project spanning 10 years, which generated widespread support in an otherwise fractious community environment.