Last October, Tomek Archer walked off the stage holding the Grand Prix. This year he is one of the people deciding who takes it. The Archer Office founder, whose Boot Factory in Bondi Junction took the top prize in 2025,…
The Oregon beams lining the walls of The Forest have been supporting the building for more than a century. They arrived from the United States in the early 1900s and were fitted out in Hobart’s Crisp and Gunn warehouse. In…
More than 1,000 votes are in, and the People’s Choice Award is still wide open. Voting closes next Friday, 4 September. The People’s Choice is the one award of the 27th Australian Timber Design Awards decided not by our judges…
Two of Sydney’s newest landmarks are officially in the running. The new Sydney Fish Market, whose sweeping timber roof drew queues along Blackwattle Bay when it opened in January, and Barangaroo’s Cutaway, where thirteen engineered timber ‘trees’ branch into the…
It began as a derelict shell, a condemned 1892 boot factory in the heart of Bondi Junction, the last Victorian-era industrial building left in the suburb, vacant for years and facing the wrecking ball. Today it stands as Australia’s best-designed…
Twenty-seven years ago, a small group of timber industry professionals had a simple idea: find Australia’s best timber design projects and put them in front of the world. What followed became the longest-running timber design competition in the country, a…
