Designing Timber issue 10 for online - Flipbook - Page 5
Who won this year's Wood
Awards - and what makes
these buildings such
worthy winners?
You'll have to imagine the drum roll as
you turn to our Wood Awards feature
in this issue, which reveals which
amazing timber projects won each
category – including, of course, the
highly desirable Gold Award.
We also take an in-depth look into
the Urban Nature Project (p.30), an
astonishingly e昀昀ective educational
building and cafe facility nestled within
the Natural History Museum. Spoiler
alert: it is one of the winners. But which
category did it win?
This year's Wood Awards are perhaps
the most varied yet, with a huge range
of projects - from the domestic projects
and housing you might expect, to
surprising pieces of public infrastructure.
As ever, you'll 昀椀nd an equally wide range
of projects and topics throughout this
magazine.
We have quite a few projects this issue
that use homegrown UK timber. It crops
up among our Wood Awards winners
and, on page 66, Tom Compton of English
Woodlands Timber gives us a detailed
introduction to the many types of UK timber
they supply - including oak, Douglas Fir,
chestnut, ash and elm (among others). He
explains how you can use them in a project:
from structural usages to cladding and
joinery. There are some stunning photos of
furniture to drool over, which really show o昀昀
how beautiful these timbers are.
The house on Howden Hall Road (p.41),
is another project that uses homegrown
timber. In truth, homegrown timber is
just one of a patchwork quilt of di昀昀erent
woods and techniques used to renovate
and extend a 1950s bungalow. It's a great
example of how a typical typology found
in every UK city can be dramatically
transformed.
There's another theme that comes
through this issue - reusability. The
cladding used for Roundhouse Works
(p.54) was made from salvaged railway
sleepers. And our articles on Old
Newton primary school (built using the
ADEPT timber frame system) and the
U-Build 'box' system both showcase two
inventive timber frame solutions that lend
themselves to easy disassembly. They are
easy to put up, durable and sustainable
but can unproblematically be reused at
the end of their lives.
The TDUK team have been busy this year
- we've been expanding our Case Studies
and Knowledge Library. This magazine's
'In Brief' section has an overview of some
of our notable recent publications, while
on p.62 you can 昀椀nd out how to make the
most of your Find Your Timber Partner
page - it's a very useful membership
bene昀椀t that you really should be using!
Enjoy reading this issue! As ever,
do get in touch with us at editorial@
timberdevelopment.uk if you have any
news of buildings, projects, products, or
publications you'd like to share with the
timber world.
Matt Milton
Editorial & Publications Manager, TDUK
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