Feature: Wood Awards 2025 | 47
Paradise is one of the most environmentally ambitious office buildings in the UK, achieving 413 kgCO2
e/m2 embodied carbon – 35% lower
than RIBA’s 2030 target and 59% better than the GLA 2020 benchmark. Its mass timber structure locks in 1,884 tonnes of CO2
and has been
designed to be fully demountable, using dry mechanical connections throughout to allow for future disassembly, relocation or reuse. The architect was Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, while the specialist timber contractor was B&K Hybrid Solutions. The wood was supplied by Stora Enso and Hasslacher. Making a big noise in the Small Project category was winner The Armadillo, a sound pavilion built from eucalyptus and radiata pine CLT.
Developed for Houghton Music Festival, the Armadillo, named because of its ellipsoidal form, is globally the first permanent outdoor CLT structure to employ the hybrid combination of timber species. The curved pavilion is constructed from stepped arches, composed of 42 prefabricated CLT panels. The flat panels interlock to create a series of self-supporting modular arch structures that are fully demountable and require minimal temporary works.
The distinctive sculptural form optimises natural acoustic amplification with individually angled CLT panels oriented to project sound outward. The resulting immersive sound environment enhances audience experience while minimising sound leakage to adjacent performance areas. Unknown Works, ConstruktCLT and Xilonor developed a newly engineered hybrid combination of eucalyptus and pine CLT – uniquely manufactured for the project – specifically designed and engineered to be relocatable. The Armadillo advances renewable material applications to create a low-carbon, sustainable model for festival and pavilion architecture. *The 2025 Wood Awards also featured the Furniture & Objects category. Winning projects included A Forest Datum, a raised walkway constructed at Hooke Park by students of the Design & Make postgraduate programme; and the Levity Collection of chairs and tables designed by Katie Walker for Meon by Gaze Burvill. ■
Top: Armadillo is a sound pavilion built from eucalyptus and radiata pine CLT PHOTO TASHAN SELVA_CONSTRUKTCLT Centre, bottom left and bottom right: The Cowshed, a sensitive conversion of a listed barn into a two-bedroom dwelling, won the Restoration & Reuse category PHOTO LAWRENCE GRIGG
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