ABOUT THE AWARDS
Now in their 24th year, the Awards are distinguished by a proud heritage of innovation and achievement. The Awards promote and encourage outstanding timber design.
The Australian Timber Design Awards are open to builders, designers, architects, engineers and landscapers: to anyone involved in the design or building of structures that feature timber. A Rising Star Award is available to students and entrants aged 35 or under.
The Pieman Collection by Hydrowood. Image: Michele Chow and Haydn Cattach Photography
Australian Timber Design Awards 2022 E-book
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Background & Features
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Benefits
Winning an accolade in the Australian Timber Design Awards, which is an independent and expert appraisal for timber design contributes to personal, business reputation and brand image. Taking part in the Australian Timber Design Awards & Competition provides valuable feedback and experience. Award winners can proudly display their exclusive award trophies and design excellence certificates which grants them prestige and expert status.
To Winners
The Awards competition provides extensive and intense publicity to award winning designs, it is considered as a quality and high-return alternative to any advertising you might be running provided that you have a good design that could win any of the Award categories.
To Professionals
The Australian Timber Design Awards benefits businesses that produce outstanding timber based designs for buildings and structures to achieve their goals, increase sales and get publicity, such as the award badge which provides a competitive advantage to help individuals and companies promote their good design practises and build their brand.
Get Involved
The main organiser is always open to new applications (subject to availability) by interested parties wanting to get involved into sponsoring of the competition or an Award category. Several levels of sponsorship are available to participate in the forming of the Australian Timber Design Awards community.
Find out about getting involved as an Australian Timber Design Awards sponsor.
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Commercial Building 2022 Winner | H & E Architects
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People's Choice Winners |NBRS & Donovan Architects
Mission
The mission of the Australian Timber Design Awards is to provide a fair, ethical and competitive platform for businesses, designers and entrepreneurs involved in the building environment design field with different experience levels, diverse professional disciplines and a timber design focus to compete on, while providing them a national (if not international) audience to showcase their success and talents to. The Australian Timber Design Awards and Competition aims to act as blender; to bring together architects, designers, builders, engineers, students, businesses and the press.
Vision
The vision of the Australian Timber Design Awards is to highlight, advertise, advocate, and develop a timber design ethos through the encouragement and showcasing of superlative timber design in a variety of applications. A broad range of entry categories demonstrates the diversity of timber and permits recognition of achievement in a variety of areas.
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Small Budget and Sustainability winner | Betti & Knut Architecture
Platform
The Australian Timber Design Awards and Competition offers a unique system for build environment professionals and students to showcase their outstanding application of timber based design in their built projects The Awards also provides an online showcase system for competition participants. Winners are featured permanently on the Australian Timber Design website. Nonetheless whether you win or not, you will be acknowledged either as a runner up with the winners’ feature or listed as a participant in the yearly Awards eBook. The Awards website will display your project’s summary profile, create an online photo gallery of your entry, and acknowledge your Award accolade.
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Rising Star winner | Cathy Martin from Akimbo Architecture
Results
The competition winner's results are always communicated to the participants at the end of the judging round to allow for publicity and events preparations. All other communication about who has won an award is kept under seal until the Awards Presentation Night event. After which time, a broadcast announcement of the Grand-Prix, People’s Choice, and Category Award winners is made through various channels. The winning projects will be featured on our website as part of a yearly competition gallery. The Awards winners can use their Australian Timber Design Awards badges to further underline that their designs have been evaluated by an industry recognised organisation and that their projects have been marked as great timber designs.
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Public Building winner | Jackson Clements Burrows
Organiser
The Australian Timber Design Awards are organised by the Timber Development Association (TDA) in partnership with Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) and WoodSolutions.
Learn more about:
Timber Development Association
Forest and Wood Products Australia
WoodSolutions