The 2024 Wood Design & Building Awards program is now open for submissions, inviting entries from talented architects and designers across North America and around the globe who are setting new standards of excellence in wood architecture. The Wood Design & Building Awards program recognizes design teams that are passionate about celebrating wood as a sustainable, versatile, and sophisticated building material. The program offers the chance to showcase innovative work and be part of a prestigious celebration of wood design.
Entries should showcase the use of wood products in any, or several, of their many forms and applications, demonstrating an understanding of the special properties of wood including strength, durability, beauty, and cost-effectiveness.
A jury of prominent architects from Canada and the U.S. will review the submissions based on several considerations including creativity, design innovation, and appropriate use of wood materials to satisfy clients’ building and site requirements.
Categories
- Non-residential: includes offices, shopping centers, restaurants, stores, churches, motels, hotels, schools, libraries, recreational buildings, fire halls, medical clinics, hospitals, storage facilities, research laboratories, factories and warehouses.
- Residential: includes single-family detached dwellings and multi-family projects such as duplexes, garden homes, apartments, condominiums, dormitories, affordable housing and seniors’ residences.
- Adaptive Reuse, Additions, and Renovations: includes modifications to an existing structure. The principal building might not have to be wood but any alterations must be of wood construction to be eligible.
- International Building: includes buildings of every type that were constructed outside of North America.
- Other (Exterior Structures, Bridges etc.)
Prizes
Honour, Merit, and Citation awards will be given at the discretion of the jury. Winners of the Wood Design & Building Awards will receive a custom wood trophy recognizing the achievement and also:
- Be announced in a press release and on social media
- Receive a feature profile on the Wood Innovation Network
- Be showcased in a video available on our website
- Profiled at WoodWorks events across Canada
- Be featured in Wood Design & Building Magazine (digital)
