In this issue...

Floating on a granite bluff above a samon-spawning river on Vancouver Island is an outstanding example of a cooperative community venture and the use of timber as an architectural vocabulary.

The Bowden Centre at the Mt Annan Botanical Garden in New South Wales is one of those small-budget, big-expectations projects that delivers on all fronts, most notably for its ESD.

Out from Mission Beach on the north Queensland coast is Bedarra Island – home of a resort billed as Australia’s most exclusive, and also the location of an award-winning timber hideaway.

An outstanding Canadian example of the interior use of wood in a residential structure.

Award-winning Australian building designer Dane Richardson is an ex-carpenter and enthusiastic modernist, with plenty of hands-on experience to guide his decision-making.

Centuries-old bridge timbers that once supported bullock teams now adorn the interior of the award-winning Springfield Lakes Hotel in Brisbane’s western growth corridor.

Inside Pernod Ricard Pacific’s new NSW corporate office at North Ryde, Sydney where natural materials abound.

A symbolic timber cone links Auckland to its past at the 24 ha Sylvia Park shopping precinct.

Designers of the Courtyard Beach House at Mount Martha on the south-eastern shores of Port Phillip Bay in Victoria rejected the typical Australian emphasis on ‘the view’ by planning an inward-looking house.

Just north of the centre of London, a building is taking shape that is already a ‘world first’. But more importantly, it signals a new era in multi-storey timber construction.

A new philosophy for timber connections addresses all potential ductile and brittle modes of failure.

Created almost entirely of treated wood in the image of a mythical serpent, the Mulbit Bridge in Gunsan is part of a major Korean tourist attraction.

Following the monumental timber buildings of World War II, post-war reconstruction in Australia featured glue-laminated timber on a major scale 
for the first time.

We continue our series by contributing wood technology expert Colin MacKenzie, this time focusing on timber performance in weather-exposed situations.