The Wood Design & Building Awards program recognizes design teams that are passionate about celebrating wood as a safe, strong, and sophisticated building material. Projects submitted to the Wood Design & Building Awards program are accepted from Canada, US, and internationally, adding value to the diversity of wood building application examples.
2021-22 Wood Design & Building Awards: Call for Submissions
Marcel Breuer's Iconic Brutalist Building is being Transformed into an Eco-friendly Boutique Hotel
Marcel Breuer’s Pirelli Tire Building, a beacon of Brutalist architecture in the United States, is being reimagined as a hotel by development company Becker and Becker. After being abandoned for years, the structure was sold to architect and developer Bruce Redman Becker in 2020 with plans to transform it into a sustainable 165-room hotel. The sculptural concrete structure aims to be a model for passive design hotels using its unique architectural features and innovative adaptive reuse techniques.
Bund Post Office and Shop / Yatofu Creatives
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Interior Designers: Yatofu Creatives
- Area: 245 m²
- Year: 2020
BOGDAN & VAN BROECK and BC ARCHITECTS & STUDIES Design Centre for Drug Users in Brussels
The two Belgian practices BOGDAN & VAN BROECK and BC Architects & Studies are currently designing a care centre for drug users in Brussels, which would provide this vulnerable group with a safe and welcoming environment accessible 24/7. Featuring temporary residencies and community spaces, the building neighbouring the city’s port functions as a contemporary version of an inn, bringing a domestic character to an underwise sterile institutional program.
Brazil Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai Offers Sensory Experience of Brazilian Biodiversity
Designed by JPG.ARQ, MMBB Arquitetos, and Ben-Avid, the Brazil Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai offers a sensory experience that connects visitors of the World Expo with Brazilian biomes and cultural heritage.
"I'm Convinced that Good Architecture Creates the Good Life": In Conversation with Dorte Mandrup
"Architecture encompassed my interest in reality and societal issues," says architect Dorte Mandrup, in an extensive conversation with Louisiana Channel, in which the founder and creative director of Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter reflects on formative years and the values of her architecture practice. Four years in the making, the film takes viewers on a journey through Dorte Mandrup's architecture, with compelling footage telling the story of designs such as the Ilulissat Icefjord Centre, Jaegersborg Water tower, or Ama'r Children's Culture House. Through the portrait film, the architect touches on numerous topics such as sustainability and climate change, the relationship of the built environment with the landscape, and as well as the profession itself and its present transformations and challenges.
Aesthetic and Energetic Rehabilitation of 6 Buildings Using Composite Panels
The task of rehabilitating buildings has been increasingly encouraged and celebrated for some reasons: first, by renovating and not demolishing, a large part of the material resources present are used, reducing the use and exploitation of raw materials and, in certain cases, the memory and the original urban fabric are preserved. A good rehabilitation also incorporates the modernization of the building to increase its energy efficiency, readjustment of facilities and the correction of pathologies, making it coherent with the demands of current users. For the building's owners and users, this means a better quality of life and, also very important, an appreciation of it. An element that plays a fundamental role in rehabilitation is the façade, which combines aesthetics and performance.
L House / AL PEPE architects
Aeon Hotel / noa* network of architecture
Business of Design Lecture Series: Where Design meets Business
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Shiwan Zhusheli Exhibition Hall / ALL STUDIO
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Architects: ALL STUDIO
- Area: 1200 m²
- Year: 2021
South Korean Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai / Moon Hoon + Mooyuki
- Area: 6143 m²
- Year: 2021
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Professionals: SDM Engineering, Archcorp, Ssangyong
Escenario SHIROKANE Building / Ryuichi Sasaki / Sasaki Architecture + Rieko Okumura / YTRO DESIGN INSTITUTE
- Area: 346 m²
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: Lighting Sou, Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio
Wind Pavilion / Tongji CAUP
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Architects: CAUP, Tongji University
- Area: 246 m²
- Year: 2019
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Professionals: Longshanyuan
Disguise LA Creative Workspace / CHA Collective
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Architects: CHA Collective
- Area: 5000 ft²
- Year: 2018
Zapoteco ONCE13 Housing / HápticaLab
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Architects: HápticaLab
- Area: 170 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Chaos Group, Trimble
Permanence of Memory Grave / PHYD Arquitectura
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Architects: PHYD Arquitectura
- Area: 9 m²
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: GWIC, Geração em Pedra
Corvin Technology Park / 3h architects
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Architects: 3h architects
- Area: 39627 m²
- Year: 2019