Timber features strongly among the prize-winners at leading architectural and interior design competition Contractworld.award 2008.
The awards, presented at a prize-giving cermony held during Domotex in Hannover, included an eye-catching conversion of a Paris factory into offices.
The Architecturespossibles project, which won the offices category, featured a 1.7m-high box of solid oak spanning the entire interior, with individual workstations cut into its surface featuring Plexiglas “telephone hoods”. Trees also rise from holes cut in the oak.
Second prize in the category went to a new office building for software company IGZ in Falkenberg, Germany. The building was inspired by traditional barn construction, featuring a timber frame construction resting on masonry walls up to first-floor level.
Interior bamboo cladding at Domsing School in Stuttgart helped SeiboldBloss Architekten Stadplaner win the education/training/culture prize.
