Search Results: 'Wood Awards'

Getting into the shop window
02 December, 2013
Want to see the modern, forward thrusting face of timber use in the UK? Just pick up a copy of this year’s stunning Wood Awards results supplement – and you have your own personal one tucked into this edition of TTJ.

Grown in Britain buzz is building
21 September, 2013
The stunning trophies presented to the winners at last week's buoyant, buzzing TTJ Awards were sharp and modern. Appropriately so, as they showcased timber at the leading edge. They were made in a combination of ultra-durable modified Accoya and its MDF equivalent, Medite Tricoya. This, as our clearly impressed trophy sculptor Ray Winder pointed out, meant they would keep their futuristic looks even if winners left them outdoors as a garden feature.

Step up for a show of unity
07 September, 2013
A team of Swiss engineers is currently putting together a spectacular, 7.7m-high cross-laminated US tulipwood structure outside London's world-renowned Tate Modern gallery. Comprising a series of interlocking flights of stairs, it forms part of the London Design Festival and is the American Hardwood Export Council's (AHEC) latest dramatic showpiece project at the annual event to promote the potential of US hardwoods.

Wood Awards wows them
10 August, 2013
Prepare to be wowed! That was TTJ's tweet to flag up its first online story on the seriously impressive 2013 UK Wood Awards shortlist. The subsequent mass outbreak of retweets showed that readers most certainly were. In fact 'wowed' barely covered the effusive expressions of enthusiasm about the entries for what must now rank as the best known, and arguably the best, competition for use of timber in construction, interiors and furniture design.

A showcase for all the industry
13 July, 2013
Inevitably it's tempting for businesses to batten down the research and development hatches in tough times. When the going gets rough, sticking with the tried and tested often looks like the lower risk better part of valour. But entries for the TTJ Timber Innovation Award highlight that there are companies still pushing back R&D boundaries, highlighting confidence, not just in their own prospects and technical capabilities, but those of the wider timber industry and market.

Timber joins the mainstream
13 July, 2013
The Wood Awards show timber is changing the face of civic architecture, says David Hopkins of Wood for Good

Turn on, tune in market and sell
06 April, 2013
There was a dim and distant past, when journalists used good old-fashioned typewriters. The stories we rattled out with RSI-raddled fingers wended their way downstairs to the in-house typesetters, who set out page plates in letters freshly formed from the molten lead bubbling on burners beside them.