Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced - Canadian Architect
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Mar 15, 2021
The functionality, beauty and diversity of wood is illustrated in the wide range of projects that won this yearâs awards. With an increasing focus on renewable materials and net-zero buildings, the use of wood is a solution embraced by many of the worldâs best architects and engineers.
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Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced
Ottawa, ON, February 22, 2021 â Wood Design & Building magazine has announced the winning projects from the coveted Wood Design & Building Awards program. Launched in 1984, the awards program recognizes and celebrates the outstanding work of visionaries around the world who inspire excellence in wood architecture.
SoLo House, British Columbia
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Sitting lightly upon a forested knoll overlooking the Soo Valley in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, Perkins and Will’s performance-led project is not a typical alpine home.
Designed for Vancouver-based developer, Delta Land Development, the home is a prototype for low-energy systems, healthy materials, and prefabricated and modular construction methods intended to inform larger projects.
Photo courtesy of Perkins and Will
With Delta Group’s intention to pioneer a future zero emissions approach to building, Perkins and Will designed a prototype that demonstrates a unique approach to building off-grid in a remote environment where every choice has consequences.
Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced
Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced
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Wood Design & Building magazine
has announced the winning projects from the international Wood Design & Building Awards program. This year, 16 Canadian firms received awards across six categories. The program recognizes the outstanding work of visionaries around the world who inspire excellence in wood architecture.
SoLo, Soo Valley, British Columbia by Perkins & Will won an Award of Merit in this year’s Wood Design & Building Awards
Submissions to this year’s Wood Design & Building Awards included a mix of structures, from a humble library built against a rock wall in China, to a reconstructed heritage horse barn in Alberta, and Canada’s longest clear-span wood bridge, in Nova Scotia.
The gondola lineup at Whistler on December 28, 2020 (EB Adventure Photography/Shutterstock)
Written for Daily Hive by Shannon Youngs, a newly versed writer living in the beautiful mountains of Whistler. A longer version of this post was first published on slyblogwriting.wordpress.com, where you can find more life, leisure and lgbtq+ articles
DISCLAIMER- The opinions in this post are regarding situations that occur within the duration of COVID public health orders in British Columbia.
Near the end January, the residents of the Vancouver Coastal Health Region learned that the Resort Municipality of Whistler had reached 288 positive COVID cases. This number beat out 2020s total number of identified cases, which was 271.