20 Dec 2022

Wood Awards Ireland Shortlist Announced

Fifteen projects have been shortlisted for Wood Awards Ireland (WAI). The shortlist has been chosen from projects submitted by Architects, designers, woodworkers and timber manufacturers. In addition, seven projects have been shortlisted for the third level student wood awards section. WAI is supported by the RIAI, Forest Industries Ireland (the forestry group in Ibec), Enterprise Ireland and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. WAI is open to Architects, practices, companies and individuals throughout Ireland – north and south – as well as Irish practitioners working overseas.

Awards will be presented to the outright winner, category winners and commended projects early next year. All shortlisted projects feature wood as an inherent, but not necessarily the sole, medium in their work. Eight unique sculptures, designed and made in oak by Michael Warren will be presented to the winners. Warren is Ireland's foremost sculptor and an Honorary Member of the RIAI.

The following 15 projects (in alphabetical order) are shortlisted for this year's award under five categories: large buildings, small buildings, international projects, furniture and innovative use of wood:

Alan Meredith Studio – Curio Furniture Collection

RIAI — Alan Meredith Studio – Curio Furniture Collection. Photo by Roland Paschhoff

Alder Architects with B210 Architects – Ireland-Estonia Architectural Project

Broadstone Architects – The Forge

Cygnum Building Offsite with Myers Architects – Hackwood Primary School

EAK Ireland – Treetop Walk, Avondale

Glenfort Timber Engineering – various including Glenfort Factory

Healy Partners Architects – The Padel Club

Miriam Dunne Architects – House A: Multi-Layer Reciprocal Frame

MOLA Architecture – Cherrywood Timber Canopy and Biophilic Sunken Garden

O'Donnell + Tuomey with Joseph Walsh Studio – Passage House

Reddy Architecture + Urbanism – Eirigh: 'Built to Disappear' Eco Pavilion

Simply Architecture – Working from Home

Tierney Haines Architects – House in the Woods

Tierney Haines Architects – Emma Table

Van Dijk Architects – Beyond the Trees, Avondale

Seven third-level wood design, research and furniture projects have been shortlisted for the third level students' awards: Michael Conway, University of Galway; Kyle Tunney, Bray Institute of Further Education: two Atlantic TU projects from Maighréad Bussmann and Daniel Stafford; and three TU Dublin projects from Laura O'Toole, Sean Nolan and a student group entry.

WAI has been won by major Irish practices and companies since it was launched in 2014. The overall winner in 2020 was Center Parc Ireland, the popular holiday complex in Ballymahon, Co. Longford. This included mass engineered wood construction by John Sisk & Son (Holdings) Ltd and designed by Holder Mathias Architects. Past winners of WAI include Bucholz McEvoy Architects, Joseph Walsh Studio, O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects, Donaghy + Dimond Architects, Alan Meredith Studio, Clancy Moore, TAKA and Niall McLaughlin Architects, Cygnum Building Offsite and Alistair Coey Architects.

Further information please contact Contact Donal Magner, WAI project manager: E: info@wood.ie or M: 086 2607 883.

Wood Awards Ireland Shortlist Announced

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