Lucy Bedry

The Best Timber Designs Aren’t Just Seen – They’re Remembered.
by Lucy Bedry|05 March 25|Design
Enter the Wood Awards 2025: Celebrate Excellence in Timber Design The Wood Awards 2025 is now open for entries, offering a prestigious platform to showcase and celebrate the UK’s finest timber architecture and design. This is your chance to have your work recognised by some of the most influential figures...
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Wood Awards 2024 Shortlist Announced
by Lucy Bedry|04 September 24|Design
From a woodland primary school, a low-carbon community centre and a modular home in the wilderness of Scotland, through to a communal table for pounding fufu, this year’s Wood Awards shortlist reflects the versatility of timber. First established in 1971, the Wood Awards are the UK’s foremost competition celebrating outstanding...
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The Wood Awards 2024: Call for Entries Now Open!
by Lucy Bedry|06 March 24|Design
Enter the Wood Awards by 24 May (for free!) to join our celebration of the very best of timber design, craftsmanship and installation. The Wood Awards is the UK’s premier competition for architecture and product design in wood - setting the benchmark, year-on-year, for timber excellence. With ten dedicated categories,...
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TDUK Supports Broader Market Recognition Coalition (BMRC)
by Lucy Bedry|06 December 23|Sustainability
Timber Development UK (TDUK) is proud to support the Broader Market Recognition Coalition (BMRC), an initiative aimed at promoting sustainable forestry systems in tropical timber-producing countries and enhancing their access to international markets. The BMRC, which includes six founder members - Indonesia, Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, the Republic of Congo, and...
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New Temple Complex takes the Gold Award
by Lucy Bedry|23 November 23|Design
A multifaith community complex, designed by James Gorst Architects for White Eagle Lodge, was announced as the UK’s best new timber building, having won the Gold Award at the 2023 Wood Awards. Through a celebration of the natural materiality deeply embedded in the area’s local history, New Temple Complex is...
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Wood Awards 2023 Shortlist Announced
by Lucy Bedry|05 September 23|Design
Twenty buildings and fourteen furniture projects have been shortlisted for this year’s Wood Awards – which celebrate excellence and innovation in timber architecture and design. From over two hundred projects entered, this shortlist of thirty-four entries celebrates the diversity and creativity of buildings and furniture made using the world’s foremost...
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Wood Awards 2023 Deadline Extended to 30 June!
by Lucy Bedry|23 June 23|Design
Deadline Extended: Due to popular demand, we are giving entrants to the Wood Awards 2023 an extra week to get their submissions in. The new (and final) deadline is now 30 June, giving all wood enthusiasts, architects, craftspeople, and creative designers an opportunity to showcase their finest wood projects. The...
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Last chance to enter the Wood Awards 2023
by Lucy Bedry|23 May 23|Design
Celebrating the Timeless Beauty of Wood Calling all architects, designers, craftsmen, and wood enthusiasts! There is not long until the highly anticipated Wood Awards 2023 closes its doors. It is time to celebrate the elegance, versatility, and sustainable nature of wood, as we honour the exceptional creations that have pushed...
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Wood Awards 2023 Launches Call for Entries
by Lucy Bedry|05 April 23|Design
The call for entries for the Wood Awards 2023 is now live! Enter your wood-centric building, furniture or product before 23 June 2023 and have your work recognised as the best in the UK.  Architects, engineers, installers, furniture makers, product designers - or anyone else with an exceptional timber project...
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Wood Awards 2022 Summary
by Lucy Bedry|14 December 22|Design, Sustainability
Timber Development is proud to be the lead organisers of the Wood Awards 2022 and going forward. This year Timber Development UK (TDUK) became the lead organisers of the Wood Awards after being a main sponsor and member of the steering group for previous years. TDUK is the largest, most...
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