When New York locked down in 2020, and shopfronts across the city were barricaded in plywood through the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, most of that material was destined for landfill the moment it came down, but…
Among the entries to our 2024 Public Building and Timber Cladding categories, few arrived wearing their story quite as plainly as the Ned Kelly Discovery Hub, the gateway to Glenrowan’s Siege Precinct, where Content Studio has taken a structure of…
On St Kilda Road, directly opposite the Shrine of Remembrance, an 84-metre glulam diagrid now crowns Anzac Station, the only platform-to-platform train-tram interchange on Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel and an underground station forecast to move 14,500 passengers every peak. Designed by…
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…
The Italians have claimed the Southern Hemisphere’s largest timber roof as their own, with His Excellency Nicola Lener, the Italian Ambassador to Australia, joining project partners Theca Timber, WSP and Rubner Timber Engineering beneath the new Sydney Fish Market canopy…
The adaptive reuse of a condemned 1892 boot factory in the heart of Bondi Junction was named Australia’s best-designed timber building at our 2025 awards, a project that began as a derelict shell and now rises through glue-laminated Australian hardwood…
On a hillside in rural New South Wales, looking over a bend in the river and the bushland beyond, River House is a contemporary bush home built almost entirely from cross-laminated timber. Designed by Jascha Oakes and delivered by design…
At Northern Memorial Park in Glenroy, in Melbourne’s north, Searle x Waldron Architecture has built a two-storey mass timber operations hub for the people who care for the grounds and graves of the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. The project won…
