British practice NEX created a benchmark in integrated design at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London last week, working with Buro Happold and Chelsea Gold Medallist Marcus Barnett on the creation of a pavilion for The Times…

April 2011 marks the completion of "Metropol Parasol", the Redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnacíon in Seville, Spain. Designed by Berlin-based J. MAYER H. architects, this project has already become the new landmark for Seville, a place of identification and to articulate Seville's role as…

BIG (DK) + Pirmin Jung Engineers for Wood Constructions (CH) + AOA Anttinen Oiva Architects Ltd (FI) + Vahanen Engineers (FI) + Stora Enso (FI) is the winning team to design a prototype wooden construction system for a pilot…

Six projects showcasing innovative ways of cedar in building construction and surface have recently been announced winners at the Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards. The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association sponsors the annual Architectural Design Awards “to recognize innovative design using one of the world’s most…

If you’re in London this weekend, don’t miss The Termite Pavilion at Pestival, a mobile arts festival examining insect-human interactivity in bioscience, through paradigms of contemporary art, cinema, music and comedy as well as direct scientific demonstration and educational projects.

Earlier this August, the Danish WoodWorks Association challenged designers to get the tools out and set all imagination free at the Copenhagen International Wood Festival – the first of its kind in Denmark. Fifteen creative teams with each three team members had to come…

From dawn til dusk on Saturday, July 25, artists Heather and Ivan Morison led a crew of volunteers to build a remarkable temporary public artwork in Victoria Park in Bristol, UK. The pavilion-like timber structure, The Black Cloud, was commissioned by Situations at…

The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association and The Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau announced the winners for the 2008 Western Red Cedar Architectural Design awards. The winning designs were presented at the AIA 2009 National Convention in San Francisco and demonstrate an…

The recipient of the international Spirit Of Nature Wood Architecture Award 2008 is architect José Cruz Ovalle from Chile. Amounting to 40,000 euros, the award is given by the Wood in Culture Association. “José Cruz Ovalle is an…

JDS and Bjarke Ingels received the Danish TRÆPRISEN 2008 award for their conceptual and effective use of wood on the MAR_maritime youth house project and the VM_VM Houses. The MAR_maritime youth house project (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004):