The Wood Innovation and Design Centre is living up to its name.
The building, and it’s principal architect – Michael Green, have received the Wood Innovation Award from Wood WORKS! – a program with the Canadian Wood Council.
Executive Director with Wood WORKS!, Lynn Embury-Williams says the award acknowledges innovation in design and construction, using wood in new and different ways.
“The Wood Innovation and Design Centre really is a landmark building,” she says. “It is the highest wood building in North America, right now, and it uses many, many, different types of wood products that are made in BC, very close in location to the building.”
Though she’s an objective observer, Embury-Williams is a big fan of the building.
“It’s a very, very, impressive building,” she says. “When you go into it now and you see all of the exposed wood, some of it is decorative, much of it is structural, so it’s holding the building up.”
The were 107 nominations for 12 different categories from all over the province.
(Photo courtesy Wood WORKS!)
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