Designing Timber issue 10 for online - Flipbook - Page 25
PUSHING THE
BOUNDARIES
OF TIMBER
DESIGN
Timber in the public realm
The Gold Award and Education
& Public Sector category
winner, Feilden Fowles’ Urban
Nature Project, delivers a
sensitive transformation
to one of the UK’s most
treasured public institutions:
the Natural History Museum.
This landscape-led masterplan
reimagines the museum’s
approach as a journey through
geological time, expressed
through a series of outdoor
living galleries.
Integrated within the
relandscaped grounds
are two new buildings: a
garden café with natural
ventilation and 昀椀nely detailed
joinery, creating an inviting
atmosphere beneath an
exposed Douglas 昀椀r structure,
and an education pavilion
whose cedar-shingled roof,
punctuated with bands
of dog-tooth detailing,
reveals the layered logic
of its timber construction.
The structures exemplify
craft at its most disciplined:
simple, economical carpentry
elevated to a level of
re昀椀nement that harmonises
with the buildings’ historic and
natural context.
Also celebrated for its
technical and environmental
ambition, Paradise by
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
INSPIRATION
From public landmarks, workplaces and homes to
restorations, experimental structures and furniture
items, the 2025 Wood Awards shows how wood is
rede昀椀ning design values.
received the Structural Award.
This low-rise workspace in
London integrates masstimber construction with
architectural clarity, providing
characterful interiors
bene昀椀tting from the vitality
of exposed spruce. Judges
praised the exemplary
coordination of the project
and expert resolution
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The education
pavilion is one of
two new buildings
designed by Feilden
Fowles for the
Natural History
Museum. Image ©
Jim Stephenson
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