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Sustainable Aged Care

This aged care facility celebrates a sustainable identity that puts ageing people at the centre of the community. The existing building was retained rather than demolished, crafted into an approachable, inclusive facility.

a large auditorium with seats and stairs

Arena Stage, Mead Center

Engineered timber features prominently in this US$135 million remodelling of the national centre for presentation, development and study of American theatre.

Fig Tree Deck

This public deck improves the pedestrian relationship with the large, existing trees, while providing access to shade and amenities. The deck is site specific, employing a random framing solution to account for the existing root system.

2017 ATDA Timber Veneers Winner: 12-Micron

12-Micron is the 2017 winner of the Australian Timber Design Awards, Timber Veneers category. The restaurant uses natural materials to represent how the environment contrasts and interacts with an urban context.

London Calling

Commissioned by a couple in London, the designer overcame distance and logistics to produce a long lasting and beautiful piece of furniture. The natural character and beauty of the macassar ebony is showcased, and the sound environmental use of sustainably harvested products is championed.

The warmth, wellbeing and wow factor of red oak

The new European headquarters for global financial data, software and media colossus Bloomberg sets sustainability records with its stunning and innovative use of red oak.

2017 ATDA Furniture or Joinery Winner: Conus Lighting Range

Conus Lighting Range is the 2017 winner of the Australian Timber Design Awards, Furniture or Joinery category. The range utilises versatile component based design, and pairs digital modelling design with hand-finished integrity.

a church with wooden floor and wooden ceiling

2017 ATDA Australian Certified Timber Winner: Charlotte Chapel

Charlotte Chapel is the 2017 winner of the Australian Timber Design Awards, Australian Certified Timber category. With an eye for recycled timber and handcrafted elements, this wedding reception chapel employs entirely Australian hardwoods.

2017 ATDA Timber Cladding Winner: ETZ Townhouses

ETZ Townhouses are the 2017 winners of two seperate categories of the Australian Timber Design Awards: Timber Cladding and Multi-Residential. The three level townhouses are designed to feel natural and secluded, despite their inner city location.

2017 ATDA Recycled Timber Winner: Court House

Court House is the 2017 winner of the Australian Timber Design Awards, Recycled Timber category. This modest timber dwelling explores the more informal way of living in a coastal bush landscape.

a room with brick walls and wooden beams

Warehouse of Time - Preservation on the Bank of Honjo

FT Architect’s Archery Hall is a renovation of a brick warehouse from 1896, first designed and built by Shimizu-ten to store silk worm cocoons.

2017 ATDA Winner: Macquarie University Innovation Hub

Macquarie University Innovation Hub is the 2017 winner of the Australian Timber Design Awards in multiple categories: Innovative Structural Design; Engineered Timber Products; Timber Panels; and Timber Windows and Doors. This is an ambitious, well-crafted building whose design allows for future dismantling, relocation and reassembly.