Categories
Entries should consist of building projects that show a wide range of wood product applications and demonstrate an understanding of the special qualities of wood, such as strength, durability, beauty and cost-effectiveness.
A jury of prominent architects will consider creative, distinctive and appropriate uses of wood materials in satisfying clients’ building and site requirements, though buildings need not be entirely of wood.
Wood Design & Building will publicize the award-winning projects through media relations, in special issues of Wood Design & Building [U.S.] on the web site www.wooddesignawards.com, and in The Wood Design Awards Book.
Categories
Category 1
Non-residential – Institutional
Non-residential – Commercial Small & Large
Category 2
Residential – Single Family
Residential – Multi Family
Category 3
Architectural Interiors
Category 4
Remodeled – Non Residential
Remodeled – Residential
Category 5
Other – Exterior Structures, Bridges etc.
Category 6
International Building
The Non-residential Category 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.
The Residential Category includes single-family detached
dwellings and multi-family projects such as duplexes, garden
homes, apartments, condominiums, dormitories, low-cost housing
and seniors’ residences.
Entries for remodeled buildings may involve modifications to
the building exterior, interior or both. Kitchen and bathroom
modifications alone are not eligible, nor are single room
improvements that do not include structural changes.
Landscaping projects and other outdoor works are also eligible,
however, the use of wood should have architectural merit.
The Architectural Interior Design Category includes significant
use of wood finishing in any type of building interior.
The International Building Category includes all buildings both
non-residential and residential that are designed by a North
American architectural firm and built abroad.
Guidelines
The use of wood as a primary, but not necessarily exclusive, structural material is the overriding criterion for project eligibility. All types of residential and non-residential buildings are eligible. Landscaping projects and other outdoor works are also eligible, however, the use of wood should have architectural merit. Mention should be made of all green building attributes. In remodeled structures, only the new additional or renovated portions of existing buildings require an overall wood structural component.
For the Architectural Interior Design Category, wood products such as panels, boards and millwork should have significant use as decorative finish materials.
Suggested product applications follow. Projects need not include all of these applications but should demonstrate a variety of them.
Structure
Buildings should have mainly a wood structure of light frame, heavy timber or a combination thereof that makes use of sawn lumber, and/or engineered wood such as glued-laminated timber, laminated veneer lumber, parallel strand lumber, I-joists and panels.
Exterior
Wood siding, wood panel products, patterned lumber, wood shingles or shakes are preferred but not essential. Other claddings can also be used. Wood or clad wood windows and doors, mouldings and trim are preferred but are not essential. Wood decks, trellises, gazebos and landscape features used to enhance a building are not in themselves eligible.
Interiors
Wood doors, mouldings, paneling, flooring and cabinets that enhance the building interior will be considered. However, for the Interior Design category, project interiors must show significant use of these elements to be considered.
Awards
Honor, Merit and Citation Awards are available in each category and will be given at the discretion of the jury. Framed Award certificates will be distributed in the fall of 2010.
Entry Fees
Special Fees for subscribers to Wood Design & Building magazine:
First Entry- $175, Subsequent Entries- $165
Regular fees for non-subscribers: First Entry- $190 [includes a one-year subscription to Wood Design & Building], Subsequent Entries- $175
