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Parish complex of the Resurrection of Our Lord

September 5, 2023|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, City and community, Italy, Wood|

The construction of the new parish complex in the Varignano district has been completed in Viareggio (Tuscany, IT), It replaces a pre-existing building no longer suitable or adequate for pastoral and celebratory needs and included for these reasons in the national architecture competition called “Diocesan Paths”, promoted by the Italian Episcopal Conference to define new models of religious buildings, capable of making the values of the Gospel message more
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Regional Care Centre Knittelfeld – Childcare Facility

September 5, 2023|Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, City and community, Wood|

The existing regional care center in Knittelfeld is being renovated by Gem. Wohn- und Siedlungsgenossenschaft Ennstal for Volkshilfe Steiermark and extended by an annex for a nursing home and a new childcare facility. The new childcare facility will be built as a mixed structure of reinforced concrete and timber frame construction and will house two crèche groups and one nursery group. The building is located on the north side
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Wohnanlage Roseggerweg

September 5, 2023|Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, City and community, Wood|

Slightly elevated above the town of Kindberg, on the edge of the forest, lies a residential complex with 40 housing units. Until this point, the location was occupied by a massive, elongated solitary building, clearly visible from the S6 expressway. A high-voltage power line runs along the southern property boundary, limiting the possibilities for development. The apartments are divided into 5 building structures. These individual structures are staggered and
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HOUSE L.

September 5, 2023|Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

Effortlessness, privacy, an open and bright atmosphere as well and a flowing transition between inside and outside were the wishes laid out by the owners. The chosen specific typology "house with outbuilding and canopied entrance" phrases an ensemble resembling a shielding courtyard towards the bypassing street, providing both privacy and flow. Through terraces and balconies, the entire living space is enabled to engage with this secure but open area,
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Urban Greenhouse

September 5, 2023|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, City and community, Romania, Wood|

Whether it’s about your aromatic plants or your cactuses, this greenhouse can accommodate any type of small greenery. Built from birch plywood, CNC routed, designed, and modulated so it can be shipped flat packed. As usual, we take great care for your pleasure in building things, this time in your backyard on a sunny morning with your basic tools and basic friend. All the plywood elements are locked together
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Kindergarten Algund

September 5, 2023|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, City and community, Italy, Wood|

The extension was designed to continue the dialog between flat and pitched roofs of the existing kindergarten with a two-story gable-roofed building and a two-story flat-roofed structure. It connects in the north-eastern part of the property which was designed by architect Gutweniger Willy in 1976. The aim of the extension was a holistic ecological construction method from the start, with the annex designed as a glue-free solid wood building
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Hotel La Briosa

September 5, 2023|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, City and community, Italy, Wood|

Hotel la Briosa represents a bold and innovative architectural interpretation of a multistory wooden building in the context of the historic city center of Bolzano, Italy. The project is characterized by an experimental approach regarding formal choices, processes, and construction aspects. Seemingly dissimilar architectural styles are integrated into a project full of contrasting elements, resulting in a single organism in which tradition and modernity coexist. Hotel La Briosa is
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Jean Coat Rack

September 5, 2023|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, Hungary, Wood, Wooden products|

We want to bring back to life a rare and perhaps now forgotten, seemingly insignificant piece of furniture. From the very beginning of the design, we built on simple geometric shapes, aiming for a clean and puritan look. All this so that the furniture itself represents quality, but still tries to be invisible. Credits Design Forms Design Manufacturer Árkossy Bútor
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Allodola

September 5, 2023|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, Italy, Wood, Wooden products|

Allodola is an object that would not have existed 10 years ago. New habits are transforming our domestic rituals and very often the phone is part of them: reading the news, making a call, watching a recipe or a movie, listening to music, and many other actions. The telephone concentrates functions and expands our homes, transforming and transporting them elsewhere. It is an extension of our brains, a prosthesis
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Intergenerational center Embroidery Bled

September 5, 2023|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, City and community, Slovenia, Wood|

The Intergenerational Center Embroidery Bled is designed as a multifunctional public facility for cultural and social activities of the municipality of Bled. Under its roof, it combines the premises of a library, a day center for the elderly, and a set of multi-purpose halls, clubs, and study rooms. With its content and image, the new center preserves the memory of the former Embroidery Bled factory, which was an important
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CASA_V01

September 5, 2023|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, Italy, Wood, Wooden houses|

Casa_V01 is located amid the countryside of the Ragusa region (Sicily), in a rural area harvested with olive and fruit trees. The clients desired a bright house, with a wide living area surrounded by windows, a small bedroom, a study, and a guest room. So, the project draws on the tradition of typical buildings from Italian rural architecture: it takes up the gabled facades of peasant houses, which often
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Hrnčiarska

September 5, 2023|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Grand Prix, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, Slovakia, Wood, Wooden houses|

Houses on Hrnčiarska Street are located in the central monument zone of Modra. They are designed as reconstruction and new construction. They are separated and connected by the original city fortification from the 17th century. Three stages of restoration were proposed - the exposure of the wall, and the reconstruction of the existing house from the 19th cent. and a new building. The main task of the conceptual line
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