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Winner of the 2018 ATDA Sustainability award for excellence in timber design, Aveo Norwest breaks the mold of typical mass timber designs. With energy efficient design at the forefront of the project's development, Aveo Norwest pushes the boundaries of what is perceived possible in mass timber design and construction technology.

Winner of the 2018 ATDA Grand Prix award for excellence in timber design, Bunjil Place provides a multi-purpose community space that reflects and embraces diversity. A striking timber feature creates a fluid, organic geometry in the central atrium, unifying the complex and celebrating the building's innovative structural design.

Henning Stummel Architects have set about reinventing flat pack furniture with their new range, which seeks to minimise waste, showing at the London Design Festival.

The design engages with the changing community perception of Kingpin, using a striking curved ceiling made from 40,000 individual hardwood dowels to create a deluxe atmosphere. The functionality of the space is enhanced through the creation of differently themed mini-venues throughout.

The Hungry Fox cafe in Essendon Fields, Melbourne, is Australia’s first structure to utilise an innovative new thermally modified American tulipwood.

Responding to a narrow, windy space receiving limited sunlight, this renewal project reactivates the space to create a hospitable and tactile experience for students and staff. The careful detailing of the timber offsets the harsh steel, glass and concrete of adjacent buildings, making room for socialisation, learning and relaxation.

This project breaks away from the conventions of a typical office fitout, creating communal studios that become team households. The blurred boundaries, vibrant colour palette and use of timber encourage a contemporary way of working.

This community centre, named after infamous local activist Juanita Nielsen, is rejuvenated as a social place without sanitisation or gentrification. The 1888 heritage fabric is retained, up-cycled and celebrated, while precise ceiling geometry creates a distinctive zigzag motif, reminiscent of Juanita's famous portrait.

The nature play design of this renovated playground elicits a sense of place with the natural bushland backdrop. The project used timber for its design language around natural materials, as well as its versatility and flexibility in creating unique structures and play elements.

MultiPly is an interactive exhibition currently on show in the courtyard of the V&A museum in London for the London Design Festival. A joint collaboration between the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), Arup Engineering and Waugh Thistleton Architects, the project aims to showcase the engineered timber product Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), into the European market.

Noma 2.0 is the new restaurant for renowned Danish chef René Redzepi's New Nordic cuisine.

Löyly, a Finnish word that represents the steam that arises from throwing water on hot stones, is a new public sauna designed by Finnish firm Avanto Architects, in Helsinki.