WoodWorks – Wood Products Council announced its 2024 Wood in Architecture award winners yesterday evening. The annual award celebrates excellence and innovation in the use of mass timber, heavy timber, light-frame, and hybrid building design, and it is meant to highlight teams who use wood to make buildings more sustainable, more resilient, and healthier. The award winners show that wood has a broad range of innovative applications that can be used in a variety of building typologies and climates, something exemplified by the fact that the seven winning projects come from seven different states (technically six states and one district).
Passive House Project Among Winners at the 2024 Wood in Architecture Awards
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“In schools, offices, and community gathering spaces, this year’s winning projects exemplify wood’s undeniably positive influence in modern design,” said WoodWorks President and CEO Jennifer Cover.
This year’s winning projects included:
Barry Mills Hall and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies, Bowdoin College
Location: Brunswick, Maine
Architect: HGA
Structural Engineer: HGA
General Contractor: Consigli Construction Co., Inc.
Owner: Bowdoin College
Founders Hall, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: LMN Architects
Structural Engineer: Magnusson Klemencic Associates; Carla Keel Group PLLC; Autoscan
General Contractor: Hoffman Construction Company
Owner: Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Google Borregas
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Architect: MGA | Michael Green Architecture (Project Designer); SERA Architects (Architect of Record)
Structural Engineer: Equilibrium Consulting
General Contractor: XL Construction
Owner: Google
Lakeridge Middle School
Location: Lake Oswego, Oregon
Architect: Mahlum Architects
Structural Engineer: KPFF
General Contractor: Skanska
Owner: Lake Oswego School District
Retail Village at Sycamore & Oak
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: Adjaye Associates (Design Architect); Winstanley Architects & Planners (Architect of Record)
Structural Engineer: StructureCraft
General Contractor: Banneker Ventures
Owner: STE15 LLC, a joint venture of the Emerson Collective and Redbrick LMD
Vesterheim Commons
Location: Decorah, Iowa
Architect: Snøhetta (Design Architect); BNIM (Architect of Record)
Structural Engineer: Fast + Epp; MBJ Engineers
General Contractor: McGough Construction
Owner: Vesterheim
11 E. Lenox
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Architect: Monte French Design Studio
Structural Engineer: H+O Structural Engineering
General Contractor: Haycon, Inc.
Developer: Boston Real Estate Collaborative, LLC
Several projects utilized passive design principles to improve energy efficiency, but one project stands out because it has received certification from Phius. The project, 11 E. Lenox, was also featured in an article that appeared in the Summer 2022 issue of Passive House Accelerator magazine.
For more information about the winners, check out WoodWork's site here. The call for nominations for the 2025 Wood in Architecture Awards will open in December of 2024.
