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timberDESIGN Issue 08

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Language of the Tsehaht

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.

   

Thermal Management Idea

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.

   

Pavilions in Paradise

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.

   

'Church and Steeple'

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

   

Geometric Interpretations

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.

   

Bridge Pylons to Bar Tops

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.

   

Premium Showcase

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

   

Volcanoes and Pailisades

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

   

A Theatrical Stage

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.

   

Going Up a Level

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.

   

Bolted In

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

   

Korea's Bridge of Soul

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.

   

The Emergence of Glulam

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.

   

Getting it Right Outdoors

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

   

BREAKING NEWS

Certification wars: PEFC fighting FSC monopoly

28 July 2010

The big guns may have been quiet for a while, but the battle between major certification brands PEFC and FSC is back on – just in time for the protagonists to vent their respective spleens at a major conference in Australia. Or will they?  

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