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48th Annual
WOOD
AWARDS
Storey’s Field Centre & Eddington Nursery
Mears Group Gold Award 2018
WOOD AWARDS 2018 CREDITS
Wood Awards
2018
Wood Awards 2018 Winners
JUDGES FOR JUDGES FOR
THE BUILDING AWARDS THE FURNITURE AWARDS THE WOOD AWARDS
NEW TRICKS Stephen Corbett
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Stephen Corbett (chair) Corinne Julius (chair) organisers
green oak carpentry company design critic and curator Friends & Co
TRADA
Jim Greaves Rod Wales Wood Awards Steering Group MEARS GROUP GOLD AWARD winner Storey’s Field Centre & Eddington Nursery
hopkins wales & wales 06
public relations
Andrew Lawrence Katie Walker Friends & Co COMMERCIAL & LEISURE winner Storey’s Field Centre & Eddington Nursery
arup katie walker furniture www.friendsandco.co.uk 10 highly commended Fallahogey Studio
David Morley Russell Pinch wood awards contact details EDUCATION & PUBLIC SECTOR winner Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
david morley architects pinch design
info@woodawards.com 12 highly commended City of London Freemen’s School Swimming Pool
www.woodawards.com
Adam Richards Eleanor Lakelin
adam richards architects designer / maker
@woodawards INTERIORS winner Royal Academy of Music Theatre & New Recital Hall
16 highly commended Marie’s Wardrobe
Ruth Slavid Oli Stratford
architectural writer disegno PRIVATE winner Old Shed New House
20 highly commended Kent Downs House
Kirsten Haggart
waugh thistleton architects SMALL PROJECT winner Look! Look! Look!
24 highly commended Dewsbury Road
Nathan Wheatley
engenuiti
produced by STRUCTURAL AWARD winner The Macallan Distillery & Visitor Experience
Jonas Lencer
Disegno Works 28 highly commended City of London Freemen’s School Swimming Pool
drmm
cover photograph JUDGES’ SPECIAL AWARD winner Woodland Classrooms, Belvue School
Storey’s Field Centre 29
& Eddington Nursery
Mears Group Gold Award Winner
INTERVIEW David Miles
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MAJOR SPONSORS A NEW BEGINNING Corinne Julius
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BESPOKE winner Cleft
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PRODUCTION winner Ballot Chair
34 highly commended OVO Furniture Range
STUDENT DESIGNER winner Objekt Bord
SPONSORS 36 people ’ s choiceSuper Desk
Wood for Good
Challenge your perceptions.
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New Tricks
Stephen Corbett
The most The Wood Awards were launched in
Wood Awards 2018 Buildings Introduction
comprehensive 2003, but before that the competition
online directory of was known as the Carpenters’ Award
and was founded back in 1971. That’s
timber products
almost exactly the same length of
and services time I’ve been working with wood, as
craftsman, designer and maker. One
Hundreds of might think that means I’ve seen it all
by now. Well, it’s not so. In the space
design guide
of a few weeks this summer I’ve seen
publications so many new examples of what can be
done with wood, in furniture, in private
houses, in public buildings, small
and large, low budget and costing a
Help with small fortune.
TRADA’s National Every year we see entries from We’ve seen buildings of the most
Structural Timber designers and architects exploring new opulent quality and those that are
Specification A dedicated ways of working with new materials, extremely humble and understated.
(NSTS) helpline and reaching unknown territories. To Likewise, in the Commercial & Leisure
witness and to be part of this growing category, we’ve seen buildings of
and team wave of working with wood has been enormous scale, coupled with small
of experts so rewarding. Whether it is a piece enterprises born of meticulous care and
of furniture, a product or a building, attention to detail. Private houses and
boundaries are being tested and small projects are always a pleasure to
stretched to new highs, and the Wood visit, showing that you don’t need to be
Sales Awards act as a perfect platform for a big headline act to pursue the value of
this trend. good design and craftsmanship.
enquiries
The judging panel deserve huge The panel was delighted this year
from the appreciation for visiting every to be able to grant a Judges’ Special
website shortlisted building in person. From Award, a discretionary prize not always
the far north of Scotland, the tip of called upon. This time, the winning
Cornwall and the rural idyll of Northern entry stood out on the strength of its
Ireland, to the depths of the Welsh achievement for the schoolchildren,
Borders, nowhere was ignored. And many from challenging backgrounds,
Find out more this gives the lie to the common who have been rewarded with a
about the benefits of perception that art and architecture learning environment of life-changing
is too London-centric. qualities. And this would not have
TRADA membership: One of the highlights of this year’s come about without the determination
shortlist was the number of entries in and passion of headteacher Shelagh
t: 01494 569603 the Education & Public Sector category, O’Shea without whom I’m convinced
www.trada.co.uk almost too crowded for comfort. It’s this would never have come to be built.
excellent that the next generation Of the many words I’ve looked for to
of schoolchildren and students will describe this project I keep coming back
have exposure to such thoughtful to just this: unforgettable.
architecture which will colour their Picking the Mears Group Gold Award
development and progress into a this year, the winner of winners, proved
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more sustainable and tactile world challenging at first. Not for a lack of
surrounded by the wonders of wood. contenders, but for too many. In the
end, as we hoped, the best building rose
to the top, for its winning combination
Every year we see entries from of architectural merit, structural
designers and architects ingenuity and flawless execution.
exploring new ways of But this above all: it sent a powerful
message that this is what all of us could,
working with materials and
When it comes to timber we are the experts in every branch reaching unknown territories.
and should, be doing with that most
versatile, sustainable and beautiful of
materials, which is our wood.
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MEMBERSHIP I INFORMATION I BOOKSHOP I SOFTWARE
WINNER
Mears Group Gold Award
Mears Group Gold Award Wood Awards 2018
Wood Awards 2018 Mears Group Gold Award
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STOREY’S FIELD CENTRE &
EDDINGTON NURSERY
“This building achieves The brief, provided to London-
a harmonious outcome: based practice MUMA, was developed
the proportions are just right, together with the local community
of Eddington in the North West
and the articulation and Cambridge Development, with the
contrast of the structural complex jointly commissioned by
framing and the panelling the University of Cambridge and
1 work together effectively.”
The nursery’s turret
roofs and the soffits Stephen Corbett
Location: Cambridge
on the covered
nursery cloister are The Storey’s Field Centre and Architect: MUMA
both clad in western Eddington Nursery compound has Client/Owner: University of Cambridge
red cedar. received national acclaim and a host Structural Engineer: Aecom
2 of recognitions since its inauguration Main Contractor: Farrans Construction Ltd
The centre’s spiral in 2018. Amongst its many accolades, Joinery: C.W. Fields, M. Borley & Sons Joinery Ltd
staircase, wrapped the complex has been named the Wood Glulam Structure: n’H International Ltd
by a veneered-ash
plywood balustrade, Awards 2018 Commercial & Leisure Spiral Stair: Spiral UK Ltd, David Gilbert Joinery Ltd
adds a sculptural winner, but the highly considered oak, Cedar Shingle Supplier: Marley Eternit
element to the ash and spruce 180-seat main hall Wood Supplier: Brooks Bros, D.F. Richards, James Latham
otherwise modest
great hall of the has seen it further awarded the overall Wood Species: European oak, American white ash,
community centre. Mears Group Gold Award. Canadian western red cedar, spruce
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Wood Awards 2018
Mears Group Gold Award Wood Awards 2018
Sponsor Profile The Carpenters’ Company
THE BUILDING
CRAFTS COLLEGE
• Fine Woodwork
• Carpentry
• Joinery
• Furniture Making
• Wood Carving
Storey’s Field Centre and Eddington Nursery ©MUMA llp
• Stonemasonry
• Building Maintenance
• Conservation
• Construction
THE CARPENTERS’ • Supervision
• Construction Operations
COMPANY • Formwork
The Carpenters’ Company is one of Founded in 1893, the Building Crafts
the ancient Livery Companies of the College has a long tradition of
Cambridge City Council. Encompassing Corbett, “affording the occupants a City of London. Its origins can be traced delivering high-quality education
a community centre and nursery peaceful and calm atmosphere.” The to the thirteenth century as a medieval and training in building crafts and
that are connected to a biodiverse tall and bright structure, with its trade guild established to look after building conservation.
landscaped courtyard complete with clerestory light, offers a profound sense the welfare and interests of carpenters The emphasis is on giving all
retired orchard trees, the property of occasion. living and working in London. students the opportunity to reach their
has been realised to the highest The local community requested Today, the Company supports full potential and the expectations of
sustainability standards. that the new civic centre focus on the a broad range of charitable and students are high. There is a constant
Echoing the grandeur of the performing arts and MUMA met this educational interests including, focus on delivering employable skills
great halls, cloisters and colleges of brief by delivering a main hall with the support and encouragement of and producing work of high-quality,
Cambridge, MUMA delivered a building exceptional acoustic qualities. The the woodworking and building crafts, whether they are full-time students,
with a strong sense of place. The main textured surface of the wood structures most obviously through its patronage apprentices or degree students.
hall’s high ceiling is carried on white- dissipates sound and acoustic doors of the Building Crafts College. Situated in the centre of Stratford,
stained spruce glulam portal frames, are hidden in the linenfold panels. The Carpenters’ Company is proud east London, The Building Crafts
which stand on a carved-oak linenfold- An exquisite ash spiral staircase, to be the home of the Wood Awards. College is open to potential students
panelled base. The layered ash joints, meanwhile, resembles a helixed every Thursday 1pm-5pm. These
battens and veneered plywood of the wood shaving, twisting upwards in The Carpenters’ Company sessions are the perfect opportunity
The project was hall’s ceiling, exposed behind the portal one corner of the community hall. www.carpentersco.com to see the excellent facilities, talk to
developed by
London-based frames, discreetly conceals air extract Wrapped by a curved, veneered-ash tutors and find out more about the
architects MUMA, routes and wires, leaving the space plywood balustrade, the stairs are courses available.
who were briefed to looking sleek and dignified. “Everything a “justifiable indulgence”, in the words
create a centre
focused on the is on show but it does not dominate,” of Corbett, “and a pleasure to ascend For further information,
performing arts. says Wood Awards judge Stephen and descend”. please call 020 8522 1705
or visit www.thebcc.ac.uk
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Commercial & Leisure
Commercial & Leisure Wood Awards 2018
Wood Awards 2018 Commercial & Leisure
HIGHLY
1 COMMENDED
SHORTLISTED
1
Fallahogey Studio
The interior
celebrates the
building’s glulam
structure, revealing
a series of bright,
interconnected
spaces.
Architect:
McGarry-Moon
2
WINNER The Macallan
Distillery and Visitor
Experience
The Storey’s Field All housed under
Community Centre one roof, Macallan’s
and Eddington new facilities in
Nursery is an Norwegian spruce
exemplar of successfully
sustainable combine function
practice and has and wow factor.
received the Architect: Rogers
highest BREAM Stirk Harbour +
certification. Partners
2
10 11
WINNER
Education & Public Sector
Education & Public Sector Wood Awards 2018
1 2
SULTAN NAZRIN SHAH CENTRE
“This is a building of to 170 individuals. To enter the lecture
tremendous quality and theatre, members of the audience pass
atmosphere, where every detail through a tall semicircular stone screen
has been thought through.” topped with large windows, and large
oak doors that allow the auditorium to
Ruth Slavid
be flooded with light or else closed up
The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre is in darkness. A pleated ceiling slants
situated next to the pristine cricket downwards to meet a wooden proscenia
pitches of the award-winning secluded that faces an amphitheatre of sleek
gardens and wooded grounds of curved wooded seats reminiscent of
Oxford University’s Worcester College, church pews.
founded in 1714. As such, the building “The main lecture theatre is
1 – comprising a lecture theatre, student stunning,” says Ruth Slavid, one of this
The pew-style
seating of the learning space, seminar rooms and year’s Wood Awards judges, “and there
lecture theatre was a dance studio – required a certain is a wonderful drama in the way that
constructed in grace and lightness to complement the the entire rear of the building opens
collaboration with
David Colwell historic surrounds, while also catering up. The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre has
Design Studio. to the contemporary needs of one of the magical moments.”
Made in solid world’s leading educational institutions.
European oak,
the wood was Raised on a podium, the centre
steam bent to features a lithe classical facade in Location: Oxford
create the benches’ Clipsham limestone which opens up Architect: Niall McLaughlin Architects
curved shape.
to a bright and airy foyer, and beyond, Client/Owner: Worcester College
2 a terrace overlooking the grounds. Structural Engineer: Price & Myers
The Sultan Nazrin Although delicate in form, the Main Contractor: Beard Construction
Shah Centre affords
plenty of informal minimalist interior structure of Joinery: Barn 6
space where European oak and Siberian larch must Furniture: Benchmark, David Colwell Design
students may relax, withstand a high footfall: the building Timber Flooring: Junckers
alongside the
venue’s more is centred around the Tuanku Bainun Wood Supplier: Inwood Developments, Brooks Brothers
formal use. Auditorium, which accommodates up Wood Species: European oak, Siberian larch
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SHORTLISTED
Wood Awards 2018
Wood Awards 2018 Education & Public Sector
Education & Public Sector
1
1
Woodland
Classrooms,
Belvue School
The headmistress of
Belvue School drove
the project forward
with “exemplary
determination”
and the judges
of the Wood Awards
feel that she
“deserves enormous
2 credit for her
achievement.”
Architect:
Studio Weave
2
West Court
The elements across
the site are unified
through a consistent
palette of high-
quality materials.
Architect:
Niall McLaughlin
City of London
Freemen’s School 3
Swimming Pool HIGHLY Streatham
The exposed and Clapham
engineered wood COMMENDED High School
has been treated Wood is the
with a white stain primary material
that renders in this project,
the grain visible. its curved glulam
Architect: columns mimicking
Hawkins Brown the trees outside.
Structural Engineer: Architect: Cottrell
Eckersley and Vermeulen
O’Callaghan Architecture
3
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WINNER
Interiors
Interiors Wood Awards 2018
1 2
ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC THEATRE
& NEW RECITAL HALL
“The Royal Academy of Music Clad in warm and inviting North
has acquired two new American cherry, the singular surface
structure of the improved 309-seat
performance spaces which theatre resembles books on shelves.
offer necessary facilities with a Its restrained expression exudes
lot of wow and a contemporary a sophisticated elegance suitable
warmth and luxury.” for the acclaimed institution.
Ruth Slavid
When the theatre of the UK’s oldest Location: London
conservatoire was in need of a refresh, Architect: Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd
Ian Ritchie Architects delivered not Client/Owner: Royal Academy of Music
only a striking performance space with Cost Consultant: Equals Consulting
1 superlative acoustic qualities, but also Structural Engineer: WSP
Six hundred increased the theatre’s capacity by 40 Building Services: Atelier Ten
fibre-optic crystals
adorn the cherry- per cent. In addition, an entirely new Acoustic Engineer: Arup
clad ceiling of the 100-seat recital hall was added above Stage Theatre Consultant: Fisher Dachs Associates
Susie Sainsbury the theatre, giving 230sqm of new space Lighting Consultant: Ulrike Brandi Licht
Theatre, mimicking
a starry sky above to London’s Royal Academy of Music. Heritage Consultant: Donald Insall Associates
the audience. Ian Ritchite Architects worked Access Consultant: Centre for Accessible Environments
closely with Arup Acoustics on all areas Fire Consultant: WSP Fire
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The design of the of the theatre and recital hall, which Approved Inspector: Approved Inspector Services Ltd
Academy’s new are housed behind a listed façade in Client Adviser: RISE
performance spaces historic grounds. Detailed grading, Main Contractor: Geoffrey Osborne Ltd
was inspired by
string instruments, with all surfaces carefully angled and Joinery: James Johnson & Co Ltd
exemplified in finished, was essential for achieving the Specialist Theatre Electrics & Lighting: Push The Button
the structure best possible sound for the fan-shaped Wood Supplier: Hardwood Sales Ltd,
surrounding the
occulus in the Susie Sainsbury Theatre and the brand Brooks Bros Ltd, Lathams
recital hall. new Angela Burgess Recital Hall. Wood Species: North American cherry, European oak
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SHORTLISTED
Interiors Wood Awards 2018
Wood Awards 2018 Interiors
2
1
Marie’s
Wardrobe
The perforated
timber treads in the
new staircase let
light and air
through, lending 3
spaciousness to
the compact
configuration.
Architect:
Tsuruta Architects
2
61amr 5
Birch-plywood 4
surfaces add The Vortex,
a lightness Bloomberg
throughout, with Three curving
exposed grain timber shells create
detailing. an entrance
Architect: WIDGER space that
architecture gradually unfolds.
Architect:
3 Foster + Partners
The Department
Store, Brixton HIGHLY 5
French oak beams COMMENDED Barbican
reference the 1 Mezzanine
history of the space, The oak plywood
which was originally panels contrast
built as an annex to with the hardwood
the Bon Marché selected for the
department store. existing staircase
Architect: in this Barbican
Squire and Partners Estate flat.
Joinery/Wood Architect: Francisco
Supplier: Sutherland
Carpenter Oak Architects
4
18 19WINNER
Private
Private Wood Awards 2018
1 2
OLD SHED NEW HOUSE
“Old Shed New House seems
perfectly suited to its owners:
this building is simple and
modest but also delicate and
uplifting to visit.”
David Morley
When architecture practice Tonkin Liu serve not only as a home, but also
was tasked with creating a sustainable a library and gallery, exhibiting the
home in place of what was once an owners’ extensive collections. Here,
industrial agricultural shed in North floorboards, doors and fittings are
Yorkshire, it needed a different mostly executed in wood so as to meet
approach. As such, the practice chose the owners’ sustainability and budget
to work with timber, applying the requirements, with perhaps the most
passivhaus strategy to reduce the arresting example being the large
house’s carbon footprint. structural timber bookcase that rises
1 By reusing, but extending, the steel over the two-floor open space of the
Home to avid
collectors of art and portal frame and ground slab of the library area.
literature, Old Shed original shed, the new house has
New House also kept much of the appearance of its
had to serve as the
owners’ private predecessor. Now clad with shot-blasted Location: North Yorkshire
gallery and library. Siberian larch, the building’s facade Architect: Tonkin Liu
mimics the bark of the silver birches Structural Engineer: Rodrigues Associates
2
Shot-blasted that line the scenic axial approach Main Contractor: Vine House Construction
Siberian larch clads to the house. Inside, the spacious and Joinery: Image Developments Northern Ltd
the façade installed layered interiors – at once striking with Wood Supplier: Arnold Laver
within the original
agricultural shed’s double-height spaces, and intimate with Wood Species: Siberian larch, Latvian birch,
steel portal frame. private nooks and considered details – Scandinavian spruce
20M U LT I P LY
Private Wood Awards 2018
HIGHLY
1 COMMENDED
Image : © Ed Reeve
A NEW, MORE
SHORTLISTED SUSTAINABLE
WAY OF BUILDING
1 MultiPly is a maze-like series of
Kent Downs House interconnected spaces that overlap and
The house is intertwine, designed to encourage visitors
composed of two
stone and timber to re-think the way we build our homes CROSS-LAMINATED MODULAR BUILDING AN INTERACTIVE
pavilions and and cities. The project confronts two of TULIPWOOD 3-D MAZE!
a two-storey Like a piece of flat-packed
bedroom block, all the current age’s biggest challenges – the CLT is an engineered timber, furniture, MultiPly arrives as The 9-metre high American
covered in vertical pressing need for housing and the urgency ideal for prefabrication, which a kit of parts and can be easily tulipwood installation leads
oak cladding. to fight climate change, and presents the
Architect:
can form the structure of entire and quietly assembled in under visitors through a series of stairs,
McLean Quinlan fusion of modular systems and sustainable buildings. 1m3 of timber stores a week. Because it is built out corridors and open spaces; while
construction materials as a solution. The a tonne of CO2 so, through of modules, it was possible to encouraging them to explore the
2
Blackheath House three-dimensional structure uses a flexible building in timber we remove take it apart and reassemble it in potential of wood in architecture
A combination system, comprised of 17 modules of carbon from the atmosphere. new locations after the London and discover the beauty of this
of concrete, American tulipwood cross-laminated timber
oversized oak MultiPly features an innovative, Design Festival. natural material!
boards and oak (CLT) with digitally fabricated joints. stronger, CLT made from
veneer joinery sustainable American tulipwood.
produce a
restrained and
calming palette.
Architect: Walker
Bushe Architects
2
To find out about MultiPly’s next locations visit www.multiply.london
22WINNER
Small Project
Small Project Wood Awards 2018
1 2
LOOK! LOOK! LOOK!
“The client, National Trust, is
delighted with the publicity
that the piece has created.”
Jim Greaves
The National Trust tasked Studio that feels contemporary but also chimes
Morison to create a pavilion for the with its Georgian surroundings”.
walled garden of the Berrington Hall The pavilion was originally designed
country estate in Herefordshire, so the in paper and the timber framing
artist-led creative practice answered method was developed by the practice
with a contemporary folly. These purely out of previous timber projects. The
decorative buildings were particularly structural engineers Artura assisted
popular in 18th-century landscaping, in the construction, which took six
1 the same century that the Berrington months to complete. Studio Morison’s
Studio Morison’s
origami-like folly is Hall gardens were designed by one of pink origami pineapple is doubtlessly
situated in the England’s greatest landscape architects, eye-catching, but it was ultimately the
walled gardens of Lancelot “Capability” Brown. timber structure, visible from inside the
the Berrington Hall
country Estate Studio Morison’s Look! Look! Look! folly, that impressed the judges.
in Herefordshire, folly is a 4sqm, origami-like soft-pink
managed by the structure that Wood Awards judge
National Trust.
Jim Greaves likens to a pineapple.
2 Constructed from 90 rhomboid birch- Location: Berrington Hall, Leominster
The birch timber ply cassettes, galvanised-steel flitch Architect: Studio Morison
structure was
realised together plates and stretched fabric, Studio Artists: Ivan Morison, Heather Peak
with the structural Morison explains that it “wanted to Client/Owner: The National Trust
engineers Artura, make a sculptural form that created Structural Engineer: Artura
and the frame was
then covered in a notional sense of shelter that is Wood Supplier/CNC Cutting: WUP Doodle
a soft pink fabric. fanciful and frivolous – something Wood Species: Birch ply, Douglas fir
24Small Project Wood Awards 2018
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1 COMMENDED
SHORTLISTED 19–22
September
2019
1
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26Structural Award Judges’ Special Award
WINNER
Structural Award Wood Awards 2018
Wood Awards 2018 Judges’ Special Award
WINNER
THE MACALLAN DISTILLERY WOODLAND CLASSROOMS,
& VISITOR EXPERIENCE BELVUE SCHOOL
“This unique roof unites process. It is also key to the awe-inspiring “The way that the classroom presented to the playful London-based
architecture and engineering visitor experience. captures the magical Studio Weave, which successfully
The lightness of the Norway spruce designed three adjoining classrooms with
to create one of the largest used for the ceiling contrasts with the
connection we have as a total 150sqm floorspace. The studio
timber structures in the UK, intricacy of the structure and offsets some humans to wood in its many delivered homely spaces in western red
and is the crowning glory of of its flamboyance. “The combination of forms – be it as a woodland or cedar that the judges described as both
the new distillery.” glulam and LVL creates a strong industrial as a crafted timber building – calming and liberating. Made intimate
aesthetic to complement the working through concave ceilings, the classrooms
Nathan Wheatley
distillery,” says Nathan Wheatley, one of
is fantastic.” Kirsten Haggart also benefit from the structure’s capacity
The 13,620sqm undulating ceiling the Wood Awards judges. The Judges’ Special Award is given at for natural ventilation. Studio Weave
of the Macallan single malt whiskey The structure, formed from a 3x3m the Wood Award judges’ discretion. This ran story writing workshops with the
distillery and visitor experience centre gridshell of beams reinforced with steel, year, the panel selected a project that students as part of the design process,
is one of the UK’s most complex was designed by architecture practice meets all the criteria that the judges which resulted in the aim of realising
timber structures. Its five domes are Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and look for. In addition, it sends a powerful the Woodland Classrooms as a gatehouse
constructed from 380,000 components, developed and produced by Wiehag. The message about what can be achieved “between familiar school territory and
many of which are unique. The property Austrian industry leader in timber-framed to make a difference to people’s lives, the magical, mysterious world of trees”
is at the heart of the vast Macallan systems brought with them 160 years of in spite of limited resources and a – an endeavour that the judges feel was
Estate in Moray, northern Scotland. experience in timber construction, as well challenging environment. achieved with distinction.
Its exterior green roof draws on ancient as highly advanced production techniques. Belvue School is a secondary school
Scottish earthworks for inspiration, for pupils who require a different
respectfully echoing the surrounding approach to learning than that which Location: Northolt The judges of
rolling landscape – a designated Area is offered by traditional institutions. Its Architect: Studio Weave the Wood Awards
felt that the
of Great Landscape Value. Location: Charlestown of Aberlour, Scotland headmistress saw a chance to create Client/Owner: Belvue School Woodland
Suggestive of how the quality of the Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners an extracurricular space connected Structural Engineer: Timberwright Classrooms
The wooden oak casks in which whiskey matures is Client/Owner: Edrington to the adjacent woodlands where Main Contractor: IMS Building Solutions at the Belvue
structure of the School enabled
Macallan Distillery central to the flavour of the beverage, Structural Engineer: Arup students can embrace activities that M&E Consultant: Arup the greatest
and Visitor the intricate wooden structure of the Main Contractor: Robertson nurture their social, emotional and Project Managers: Jackson Coles transformation of
Experience’s ceiling building’s ceiling is essential to the Installation: L&S Baucon GmbH personal development. Roofing Sub-contractor: VMZinc all the shortlisted
and roof amounts buildings that they
to a considerable stratification and exhaust of the hot Joinery/Wood Supplier: Wiehag A small but achievable budget, Wood Supplier: T. Brewer saw during the
feat of engineering. air that emerges during the distillation Wood Species: Norway spruce attained through fundraising, was Wood Species: Western red cedar (Canada) judging process.
28 29Q&A with David Miles A New Beginning
Chief Executive Officer of Mears Group Corinne Julius
Sponsors of the Wood Awards
Interview Wood Awards 2018
Wood Awards 2018 Furniture Introduction
This is my first year as chair of the
Wood Awards furniture judging panel,
although I have been a judge for the
past three years. I was born into a
furniture manufacturing family and,
as a critic and curator who covers
contemporary design and making,
I often feel that I have sawdust in
my veins.
To help assess the awards, I was
joined by our long-established judges,
furniture designers Rod Wales and Katie
Walker. I was also delighted to welcome We have been actively encouraging
Has people’s attitude to wood changed? three new panel members: Oli Stratford, applications and this year the Bespoke
The demand for wood has been growing editor of Disegno; Russell Pinch, category had a particularly strong field
gradually, but during the last 20 years furniture designer and manufacturer; of entries. There were more original
it’s changed beyond recognition. People and Eleanor Lakelin, maker and approaches and fewer Parnham look
can use wood with the confidence that previous Bespoke category winner. alikes, less curly-wurly furniture
it is a renewable resource and offers Their skills and experience cover the and more thoughtful designs that
beauty and versatility. This country has full range of our awards categories. demonstrated the real potential of wood
been at the forefront of using timber for At our first meeting in June, we as a material. Arriving at the shortlist
centuries and we are so lucky to have established a rigorous code of criteria was relatively straightforward, but in
such great examples such as the Great for judging which, whilst time our final meeting in September during
Hall in Westminster and our other fine consuming, paid dividends when LDF, we agonised over our decision.
The public demand for old buildings. The excellent pieces of it came to making a shortlist and The criteria were extremely helpful in
sustainable buildings offers work by the finalists just go to show ultimately reaching a decision in choosing a worthy winner, whose work
that the skills are there today, too, and each category. really showcases the beauty of wood.
a positive way ahead for the the Wood Awards commends this.
use of timber and the skills
the Wood Awards celebrates. Beyond wood’s sustainability credentials, There was less curly-wurly
has its versatility made it popular with furniture and more original
designers, architects and the public approaches and thoughtful
Can the Wood Awards help promote the once more?
use of wood as a sustainable material? designs that demonstrated
The raw material used in these entries
Absolutely. The need for sustainable remains the same as it has been for
the real potential of wood.
materials in the construction industry centuries but the thing that’s changing
– and in general – is becoming more is the way engineering and glues have
and more widely understood. We’re evolved to allow even more creativity. Our Student Designers this year
increasingly aware that we’ve all got Greater understanding of structural showed a marked improvement in
to stop using finite resources and engineering means that people can the thoughtfulness of design and
wood is a renewable alternative. push the boundaries even further. We quality of making. There were fewer
The Wood Awards is a great way to are seeing an increasing use of wood in of the normal student designs for
showcase the material and highlight the new homes we build and maintain. tricksy space-saving furniture and
the people using timber to make Coupled to ever improving techniques more “grown up” applications.
something with a lasting impact. and technologies, the future for the The Production designs remain
David Miles is
the chief executive If you hold these up as examples, carpentry and joinery crafts and the a little uninspiring and many were
of Mears Group. others will follow, and the fact that use of timber looks exciting. The public frankly anodyne with little new to say.
This social Our winner is restrained, elegant and
housing repairs the Wood Awards gets such good interest and demand for sustainable
and maintenance publicity heightens awareness – buildings and a more responsible use uses wood intelligently.
business is the not only within the industry, of natural resources offers a positive
main sponsor
of the 2018 but also within the general public. way ahead for the use of timber and the
Wood Awards. That can only be a good thing. skills the Wood Awards celebrate.
30 31Bespoke
SHORTLISTED
Bespoke Wood Awards 2018
Wood Awards 2018 Bespoke
WINNER
2
1 1
CLEFT GYC#1
A variety of
techniques,
“We were enchanted by including
scorching, have
Cleft’s doors: they make you been used to
create this
want to examine the material collectors’ cabinet.
and touch it.” Designer:
David Gates
Corinne Julius
2
The designer Peter Marigold is Hinoki Kogei. The individual and highly Black Trine
fascinated by the idea of bi-symmetry. textured pieces were then matched to Variations
Each chair is
In Hinoki Kogei, Japan’s leading fit the varying sizes of Marigold’s Cleft made from a single
woodwork factory, he found the cabinets, using the mirrored pieces of hedgerow oak tree
artisanal skills needed to let him a single cleft piece of timber for each reduced to five
components: three
explore this concept in wood. The cabinet door. legs, a seat and
creative partnership began in 2012 The cabinets dramatically reflect a backrest.
with the Dodai bench – a piece of light and shadow over their choppy Designer:
John Makepeace
furniture created by splitting a log to exterior, and impressed the judges with
reveal the natural shape of the wood. their wabi-sabi allure: “This different 3
Enamoured with the arresting effect approach shows that wood still has the Mycelium and
Timber
of ancient Japanese woodworking potential to surprise.” Mycelium binds
techniques, Marigold revisited the green wood waste
Designer Peter process for the Cleft cabinets. together around
Marigold enjoys the 3 a tailor-made
anthropomorphic Drawn from a range of native Designer: Peter Marigold/Tadanori Tozawa frame, producing
qualities that the Japanese tree species – including jindai Maker: Hinoki Kogei biodegradable
bi-symmetrical sugi, Japanese ash, kenponashi, kihada Representation: Sarah Myerscough Gallery furniture and
cleft wood creates accessories.
in the doors of and sen – the large logs were split by Wood Species: Smoked oak, oak, cherry, jindai sugi, ash, Designer:
his cabinets. hand by Tadanori Tozawa, president of kenponashi, conker, kihada, sen (all Japanese) Sebastian Cox Ltd
32 33Production
WINNER
Production Wood Awards 2018
Wood Awards 2018 Production
HIGHLY
1 COMMENDED
1
OVO Furniture
Range
The collection
centres around the
SHORTLISTED tactility of wood,
with the simplicity
of its forms
and production
processes
BALLOT CHAIR demanding
painstaking
craftsmanship.
“A light and elegant chair.” Designer:
Foster + Partners
Rod Wales Manufacturer:
Benchmark
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby’s amount of care and attention that the
Ballot chair was chosen as this year’s Ballot chair’s traditional typology has 2
The Lastra
Production Made winner because benefitted from. It is no small task to Collection
the judges felt that it represented create a solid wood chair that is light The collection,
a masterclass in what an exercise enough and proportioned so as to be which comprises
shelving and
in simplicity should look like. To the stackable, and without compromising three tables, draws
judges, the Ballot chair is successful on form. Made from thin but durable on forms found in
because it epitomise a well-considered, oak, the elegant chair is strong enough architecture.
Designer:
lightweight, stackable wooden chair to allow for the legs to be tapered from 3 Emile Jones
that has been expertly executed. the bottom to where they meet and Manufacturer:
The Ballot chair is a continuation support the backrest. Qualita
of the design language used in Barber 3
& Osgerby’s Home dining table and Passage Table
Portsmouth bench, produced by Isokon 2 European oak
The solid oak provides quality,
Ballot chair was Plus, and was created in celebration Designer: Barber & Osgerby dependability, and
first shown by of the 21st anniversary of the design Manufacturer: Isokon Plus patina, with the
manufacturer practice’s first collaboration with the Wood Supplier: Timber Link International table’s pared-down
Isokon Plus at the aesthetic suiting
2017 London east London furniture maker. Photography: Rory Gardiner most decors.
Design Festival. The judges were impressed by the Wood Species: European oak (Germany) Designer: Frank
34 35Student Designer PEOPLE’S
CHOICE
Student Designer Wood Awards 2018
Wood Awards 2018 Student Designer
1
1
WINNER Super Desk
The tensile strength
SHORTLISTED of the table’s solid
olive ash legs and
rails give the Super
Desk its strength
and flexibility.
OBJEKT BORD Designer Ben Smith
has received £500
for winning the
“A project that demonstrates Student Designer
People’s Choice
great potential and design Award. Voting took
talent.” Russell Pinch place at London
Design Fair.
Conceived out of a curiosity to explore birch plywood – chosen to offer both
2
the processes of laminating and structure and flexibility – the piece is Arne
bending plywood, Ellen Svenningsen’s finished with a white, pigmented Osmo Inspired by
Objekt Bord seems to defy gravity as oil to sustain the birch wood’s natural Norwegian
environmental
it balances a circular tabletop on an colouring. Designed in two sizes, the philosopher
upright inclining arch. The equilibrium two versions of the Objekt Bord slot Arne Naess, this
of its form is at once unsettling and into one another and can be arranged study chair uses
a strong and
satisfying. This is an effect that has into constellations to compelling effect. flexible ash frame.
been intentionally engineered by Svenningsen, who is currently Designer:
Svenningsen, who wanted the piece studying for the City & Guilds Fine Alexander Worsfold
to reflect the human desire for balance. Woodworking Diploma at London’s 3
Further, Svenningsen intended the Building Crafts College, has been Digi-weave
piece to straddle the line between awarded a £1,000 cash prize as winner Shoe Cabinet
The judges of Thin strips of
the Wood Awards decorative object and functional of this year’s Student Designer category. American red oak
were particularly furniture. The correct definition of veneer have been
impressed with the Objekt Bord is always in the eye dyed and pressed
the student entries into calico fabric to
this year. Ellen of the beholder. create the screen
Svenningsen’s The judges felt that Svenningsen Designer: Ellen Svenningsen that wraps around
winning Objekt Bord 3 the Digi-weave
has designed something that, with some College: Building Crafts College
has an experimental cabinet.
quality that enticed development, could go into production. Wood Supplier: Slecuk Designer:
the judges. Made from seven layers of 1.5mm Wood Species: British birch ply 2 Tom Morgan
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