Sustainability

A holiday home that uses a range of commercial timber products and salvaged on-site timber to award winning effect.

The Mary Rose Museum is a unique timber-clad building protecting the only 16th century warship on display anywhere in the world.

An innovative coastal refurbishment where the use of timber contributed to an environmentally sustainable development while respecting the site's heritage significance.

A full scale building project designed and constructed by Monash University Architecture students for observation and engagement with specific light conditions.

This unique village library building with its firewood stick facade was awarded the inaugural A$100,000 Moriyama Royal Institute of Canada prize in 2014 for transformative and emblematic architecture.

In the fast changing inner city suburb of Brunswick East, this Victorian cottage named ‘Ethel’ demonstrates that she can change with the times whilst retaining her personality, warmth and charm.

The NZGBC’s 5 Green Star rated new office fit-out in Auckland shows that a modest budget is no barrier to sustainability.

Architect Paul Haar has applied engineered timber products with elegance to address a massive structural challenge and create a warm but powerful architectural expression.

A “home among the gum trees”, this 1000 m2 residence sits 140m above a valley and on a 30 to 60 degree slope - the concept was to ‘float’ amongst the trees.

A world first for its innovative use of LVL in the structure of a multi‐storey building, the NMIT building also incorporates a new generation of earthquake-­resistant engineering technology.

The free form, wide span wooden cupola with its multiple layers was made possible through parametric programming that included design facilities and options, statics, production, CNC machining, transport and assembly parameters

When Outcrop House was judged overall winner of the 2008 Australian Timber Design Awards, architect Peter Stutchbury modestly described the work as “one of restraint” – an enclave offering comfort, ease, place and dreaming, and promoting contemplation.