2022-23 Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced

Ottawa, ON – The Canadian Wood Council has announced the winning projects of the 39^th annual Wood Design & Building Awards program. The influential awards program recognizes and celebrates the outstanding work of architectural professionals around the world who achieve excellence in wood design and construction.

A record of 181 nominations from 25 countries were received by the program this year, with 24 winning projects selected from the impressive field of entries. The creative talent of the participating design teams, and the beauty and versatility the wood structures they have created, are transforming the built environment.

The jurors for this year’s awards were:

Brian Court, Partner at The Miller Hull Partnership
Susan Fitzgerald, Design Principal at FBM
Stephan Langevin, Principal at STGM

“The jurors agreed that the winning projects demonstrate skilled applications of wood – from the warm, acoustic enhancement of a concert hall to the transformative adaptive re-use of an old industrial building into a beautiful multi-function space. All the structures were incredibly rich and well crafted,” said Stephane Langevin of STGM, one of this year’s jurors and a celebrated, award-winning architect in his own right.

” We are privileged to honour wood design leaders through the awards program, “says Martin Richard, VP Communications and Marketing at the Canadian Wood Council. “The quality, quantity, and diversity of the project nominations we received this year is inspiring. It also signals a growing architectural interest in renewable biomaterials and the expanded use of wood as a versatile, sustainable, high-performance construction element that offers better outcomes for people and the planet.”

AWARD WINNERS

HONOR

Churchill Meadows Community Centre and Mattamy Sports Park, Mississauga, Ontario, MJMA Architecture & Design
Neil Campbell Rowing Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario, MJMA + RAAI
Lake Muskoka Boathouse, Port Carling, Ontario, Turkel Design
TUM Campus in the Olympic Park, Munich, Germany, Dietrich | Untertrifaller
HAUT Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Team V Architectuur
Pavilion of Floating Lights, Jinju-si, Korea, JK-AR

MERIT

Prince George Fire Hall, Prince George, British Columbia, hcma
MacLac Building D – Rebirth of An Historic Paint Factory, San Francisco, California, Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects with PLAD Peter Logan Architecture and Design
Historians’ library and residence, Cambridge, Ontario, Dowling Architects
Ombú, Madrid, Spain, Foster + Partners
Wooden Annex, London, United Kingdom, Tsuruta Architects
SuperHub Meerstad, Meerstad, the Netherlands, De Zwarte Hond

CITATION

Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, New York, Diamond Schmitt Architects
Angle of Repose , Algonquin Highlands, Ontario, Reasonable Projects
Rouyn-Noranda Air Terminal, Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, EVOQ+ARTCAD architects
Our-Shelves-Houses, Madrid, Spain, SUMA architecture+ Madergia
Doune Castle: Ardoch Burn Crossing, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK, Historic Environment Scotland
Revitalization of the school building Ceskobrodska in Prague into a Smart, Secure, Sustainable, Operation Energy and Carbon Negative Building, Prague, Czech Republic, ECOTEN

JURY’S CHOICE AWARD

Robotically Fabricated Structure (RFS), Ann Arbor, Michigan, ADR Laboratory, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
San Jacinto College Anderson-Ball Classroom, Pasadena, Texas, Kirksey Architecture

Sustainable Forestry Initiative – Sponsorship Award