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Manilla Presbyterian Church
The architect of this small parish church at Manilla embraced plywood and exploited its natural finish and structural capacity as a shear skin in the elements of roof design.
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Kingfisher Bay Resort and Village, Fraser Island, Queensland
The design of the Kingfisher Bay Resort and Village was underpinned by the architects' desire to achieve the most ecologically and environmentally responsible development within the financial constraints. They sought to touch the ground lightly
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Royal Melbourne Exhibition Building
Designed by noted Australian architect, Joseph Reed, and erected in 1880-1, the Royal Melbourne Exhibiton Centre it is a fine early example of the use of timber in the structure and finish of a large classical style building in Australia
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Hardware store, Tullamarine, Victoria
This complex consciously displays a diversity of different timber based products, structural forms and jointing techniques. Solid timber is used in bolted columns, framing and trusses and plywood in diaphragms, shear walls and external cladding.
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The Brambuk Living Cultural Centre, Halls Gap, Victoria
The design of the building, Brambuk, 'the White Cockatoo', is a fusion of holistic and organic architecture, the forms and elements of the building reflecting many influences from the culture of the local Aboriginal communities and the surrounding landscape.
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Board Store, Tumut, NSW
This is one of the largest nail gusset plate portal frame buildings constructed from glue laminated softwood in Australia.
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Drying shelter, Narangba, Queensland
The building is a simple gabled roof shelter with CCA treated slash pine poles cantilevered out of the ground to support a roof of longitudinal plywood box beams and transverse glue laminated pine trusses
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Store building, Mt. Gambier, SA
. Economy governed much of the design for timber industrial buildings such as this. However, the confidence and technical skill in its design, the assured detailing and the fine 2:1 width to height proportion of this simple form endow this building with a strength and scale uncommon ifor buildings of this type..
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Store building, Clayton, Victoria
In the Clayton building, the columns and rafters are box sections that house between each other at the main moment joints. The regular lines of deep plywood purlins, set between the portals, establish rhythms in the roof and soften the light from the strips of translucent roof sheet.
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Store Building, Cardiff
The Cardiff building is the longest clean span timber portal building in Australia.
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St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Gracemere, Qld
A multi purpose church with curvaceous and segmented timber portal structure and veneered ceiling panels
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Community and Worship Centre - Menai
The congregation of this church had definite ideas of the operation of the building and the configuration for the worship space. As well as making structural sense, the "spider web" of black steel tension ties over the centre of the congregation allows the inclined radiating timber members to define a secondary focus over the congregation.
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Sydney Showground Exhibition Building
One of the largest structures to be built at Homebush Bay for the Royal Agricultural Society and the 2000 Olympic Games is the timber dome and hall of the Exhibition Building.
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Church, Dural, NSW
This building is the first stage of a church complex. The project had a limited budget and costs determined much of the design. The decision to use a curved haunch timber portal frame as the primary structure came about through early cost management studies.
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Sunny Hills Country Club
This Sunny Hill Country Club Hotel was built from timber for two main reasons: timber has an established association with relaxation and leisure and it is an easy to use and economic building material.
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Olympic Viewing Pavilion, Homebush, NSW
This project showed just what is possible in a very short time frame working with knowledge within the parameters of a largely timber structure. The roof utilises multi pinned stainless steel dowel connections.
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Horicultural Training Centre, Hobart
A bright and airy complex of classrooms and associated facilities for a small educational organisation.
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Launceston Swim Centre, Glen Dhu, Tasmania
The use of timber to replace the original steel design of this swimming centre resulted in a much more economic and aesthetically pleasing building.
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Dune House and Studio
Recipient of the Kevin Borland Timber in Architecture Award in 1996, the exemplary design, structure, finishes, features and detailing of this house all express the essential aesthetic values and potential of wood.
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Kenny Residence
A low cost home combining the sophistication and character of traditional Japanese design whilst serving as a haven for relaxed Australian living, all in a typical Melbourne subdivision.
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Factory Building, Legana, Tasmania
Externally, this building looks little different to the thousands of portal factory and store buildings found in any of Australia's industrial estates. However, it is a timber building, even though it was originally designed as a steel one.
The cause of the change was cost. The timber portal came in about $5,000 cheaper than the steel alternative and the builder could erect structure with his own carpentry team.
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Own House
Bud Brannigan's own house, in the suburban Brisbane suburb of St. Lucia, is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional Queensland elevated lightweight timber house.
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Mansion on Bourke
A Multi-storey Residential Timber Framed Construction (MRTFC) demonstrating the possibility of its use within an exisiting building via the addition of three new floors.
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Skidmore Bridge, Union, MA, USA
The Skidmore Bridge at Union, Maine utilises a new FRP reinforced glulam bridge deck system. The main span is 20.5 m (68 ft) long and 7 m (23’ 6") wide. The FRP-glulam panels are 8-1/2" deep, 48" wide, and 23’ 7-1/2" long.
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Bemis Bridge, Hart's Location, NH, USA
This graceful asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge across the Saco River connects homes in Hart’s Location, NH to the outside world and carries skiers and hikers to Mount Washington. Designers were challenged by the special requirements set down for the new bridge which directed that the span be unobtrusive with environmental appeal, require low maintenance, not impede the spring runoff, and be built within a limited budget.
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Madison Footbridge, Madison, CT, USA
The bridge is a structural monolithic slab, prefabricated off-site in six parallel S-shaped lengths of pressure treated glulam timber, lifted into position by crane and clamped together with predrilled, threaded rods.
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Milwaukee Street Bridge, Jefferson, WI, USA
This graceful structure has two spans with a total length of 73 m (240 ft). A 3-hinged buttressed arch has vertical rods supporting floor beams and stringers with longitudinal deck panels. The clear width is 3.5 m (12 ft). The radius of the arch is 26 m (85 ft).
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Tar River Trail Bridge, Rocky Mount, NC, USA
A new bridge across the Tar River was needed to complete a 5.6 km (3.5 mile) greenway path for bikers, runners, walkers and hikers in Rocky Mount, N.C. The solution was a timber bridge, because the park department determined "since it’s a wooded setting, a wood bridge fits in better."
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