Structure Workshop - London

🪑 Bespoke Furniture & Product This category celebrates exceptional, one-of-a-kind pieces that push the boundaries of timber design, where craft, material and narrative come together in highly individual ways. From experimental student work to masterful, heritage-driven making, these projects explore timber at its most expressive. Whether through innovative processes, cultural storytelling or deep material understanding, each piece demonstrates the unique potential of wood as both a structural and artistic medium. Over the past five years, winning projects have ranged from lightweight, demountable structures to finely detailed objects and sculptural furniture, each reflecting a distinctive approach to form, function and making. Selected winners from the past five years: 🔹 2025: A Forest Datum 🔸 2024: Communion 🔹 2023: Serenade 🔸 2022: Fenland Black Oak CIO 🔹 2021: Gayles Farm 5 Entries are open until 22 May 2026. Find out more and submit your project via the link in bio. — 🔹 A Forest Datum (2025) Designer: Design + Make 23–25 Students, Architectural Association Manufacturer: Design + Make Post-Graduate Course Species: Beech, Cedar (UK) 🔸 Communion (2024) Designer: Giles Tettey Nartey Manufacturer: Jan Hendzel Studio Species: American Maple (USA) Photographer: Jason Yates / CASWORKSLDN 🔹 Serenade (2023) Designer: John Makepeace OBE Fabrication: Snowe Steedstrup Dyhr and Clive Baines Species: English Oak, Lebanon Cedar (UK) Photographer: Andy Whale 🔸 Fenland Black Oak CIO (2022) Designer: Mauro Dell’Orco Fabrication: Benson Sedgwick Engineering Ltd Species: Quercus Robur (England) 🔹 Gayles Farm 5 (2021) Designer: Wycliffe Stutchbury Manufacturer: Wycliffe Stutchbury Species: European Oak

Rising within Brent Cross Town in London, the Fountain by NEON @neon.uk , led by Mark Nixon and Viliina Koivisto, introduces a vertical public installation completed in 2025 in the United Kingdom. 💧 Positioned in Neighborhood Square, the 4.3-metre structure combines sculptural form with acoustic intent, using cascading water to soften urban noise and create a moment of pause. The layered composition, defined by subtle asymmetry, generates shifting reflections and varied sound patterns that respond to movement around it. 🌊 Constructed from HI-MACS in vivid green and turquoise tones, the fountain balances durability with visual clarity. As part of a wider public art strategy, it reinforces community identity through shared experience. 🌿 Team: suziejc_ @morwennahall @brentcrosstown @fountainsdirect @twwco @structure.workshop @arupuk @gillespies_llp 📷: John Sturrock, Cesare De Giglio #NEONStudio #TheFountain #London #BritishArchitecture #PublicArt #architettura #ArchitectureDesignCollectionAwards Collection #adcCommunity #architectureCollectionMagazine #ADCommunity #建筑学 #ADCA #Architecture #arquitectura #设计大赛 #DesignAwards #DesignCompetition #architektura #ADC #设计奖 #architecturalcontest #design #architecture

🌿 Education & Public Sector This category celebrates the role of timber in shaping spaces for learning, community and public life where architecture must balance performance, longevity and environmental responsibility. From university buildings and cultural institutions to places of gathering and reflection, these projects demonstrate how timber can create inspiring, welcoming environments while responding to complex briefs and contexts. Over the past five years, winning projects in this category have combined technical innovation with a strong sense of place using timber to deliver both architectural ambition and meaningful public impact. Selected winners from the past five years: 🔹 2025: Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum (Gold Award) 🔸 2024: Clare College 🔹 2023: New Temple Complex (Gold Award) 🔸 2022: Homerton College Dining Hall (Gold Award) 🔹 2021: Magdalene College Library (Gold Award) Projects must be located in the UK to be eligible. Entries are open until 22 May 2026. Find out more and submit your project via the link in bio. — 🔹 Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum (2025) Architect: Feilden Fowles Architects Structural Engineer: engineersHRW Wood Supplier: East Brothers Timber Ltd | Marley Contractor: Walter Lilly Landscape: J & L Gibbons Photographer: Jim Stephenson 🔸 Clare College (2024) Architect: Witherford Watson Mann Structural Engineer: Smith and Wallwork Wood Supplier: Constructional Timber (Manufacturers) Ltd Contractor: Barnes Construction Photographer: Philip Vile 🔹 New Temple Complex (2023) Architect: James Gorst Architects Structural Engineer: Eckersley O’Callaghan Wood Supplier: English Woodlands Timber Contractor: Beard Construction Photographer: Rory Gardiner 🔸 Homerton College Dining Hall (2022) Architect: Feilden Fowles Structural Engineer: Structure Workshop Wood Supplier: Constructional Timber Contractor: Barnes Construction Photographer: Jim Stephenson 🔹 Magdalene College Library (2021) Architect: Niall McLaughlin Architects Structural Engineer: Smith & Wallwork Wood Suppliers: James Latham | Piper Joinery | Trojan Wood Contractor: Cocksedge Full project credits in the comments ↓

✨An extension for a 1830s Georgian cottage. The brief included, a beautiful view of the garden, an upstairs yoga room with an en suite, and enough shelves to house a lifetime of books. “Carrying out our recent build project with U-Build has been an amazing experience. We wanted to add a first-floor extension to our 1830s cottage to provide an upstairs yoga space and bedroom with an en-suite shower room and a landing space to accommodate all our books. The team came up with an innovative design, with high ceilings vaulted in birch, which managed the difficult task of sitting well with the existing building while not attempting to copy it. They managed the planning application process, keeping us informed and worked with us to ensure that we understood the proposals. To our delight, they told us that if we wished we could have some involvement in the build process and we happily agreed.”- clients testimonial. ✨The design: In collaboration with the clients, we designed a lightweight timber extension that sits above the existing structure, defined by an asymmetric pitched roof and a vaulted interior. Large, carefully placed openings, including picture windows and rooflights, bring daylight deep into the space and frame views of the picturesque garden, while the CNC cut plywood structure forms integrated shelving, expressing the construction and embedding storage throughout. Externally, the dark slatted cladding enables the extension to recede into the cottage and its surrounding landscape, allowing it to sit quietly within its context and complement the existing material character. ✨The construction : We developed a flat-pack CNC building system with @studiobark and fabricated the structure as CNC-cut timber cassettes with Cut and Construct, delivered to site in flat-pack form. There we built the extension collectively with the client. For insulation we used sheep’s wool from @thermafleeceuk Moreover, bespoke copper radiators by @johnstone_copper provide heating, with structural engineering by @structure.workshop . Brickwork and works to the existing building were carried out by Francis Builders. Got a project in mind? Dm or email us at [email protected]

✨An extension for a 1830s Georgian cottage. The brief included, a beautiful view of the garden, an upstairs yoga room with an en suite, and enough shelves to house a lifetime of books. “Carrying out our recent build project with U-Build has been an amazing experience. We wanted to add a first-floor extension to our 1830s cottage to provide an upstairs yoga space and bedroom with an en-suite shower room and a landing space to accommodate all our books. The team came up with an innovative design, with high ceilings vaulted in birch, which managed the difficult task of sitting well with the existing building while not attempting to copy it. They managed the planning application process, keeping us informed and worked with us to ensure that we understood the proposals. To our delight, they told us that if we wished we could have some involvement in the build process and we happily agreed.”- clients testimonial. ✨The design: In collaboration with the clients, we designed a lightweight timber extension that sits above the existing structure, defined by an asymmetric pitched roof and a vaulted interior. Large, carefully placed openings, including picture windows and rooflights, bring daylight deep into the space and frame views of the picturesque garden, while the CNC cut plywood structure forms integrated shelving, expressing the construction and embedding storage throughout. Externally, the dark slatted cladding enables the extension to recede into the cottage and its surrounding landscape, allowing it to sit quietly within its context and complement the existing material character. ✨The construction : We developed a flat-pack CNC building system with @studiobark and fabricated the structure as CNC-cut timber cassettes with Cut and Construct, delivered to site in flat-pack form. There we built the extension collectively with the client. For insulation we used sheep’s wool from @thermafleeceuk Moreover, bespoke copper radiators by @johnstone_copper provide heating, with structural engineering by @structure.workshop . Brickwork and works to the existing building were carried out by Francis Builders. Got a project in mind? Dm or email us at [email protected]

Eastleigh Court was submitted for planning a few weeks ago. ⁠ ⁠ Eastleigh Court is an ambitious refurbishment, extension and decarbonisation of a Grade II listed estate set within 5.5 hectares of landscaped grounds in Wiltshire. The project brings the building back into use as short-stay accommodation, with space for events and gatherings.⁠ ⁠ New build elements are constructed using timber and limestone, including a stepped gable ground floor extension and a low-slung pavilion building with a kinked hip roof. ⁠ ⁠ Structural Engineering @structure.workshop Landscape Design @edwardolley Environmental Engineer @skellyandcouch Planning Consultant - Newmark⁠

A London Terraced House. Site photographs nearing completion, February 2026. A Victorian house is adjusted to provide a highly insulating, low VOC, breathable clay perimeter, with large section douglas fir used for interior spatial alteration’s and much needed daylight. The timber structures offer a low-embodied-carbon approach to keep the chamber qualities of the original period house but translating these rooms into new spaces suited to C21st open domestic living. Thanks to @sufa.construction.ltd for the care and enjoyment during construction, the rest of the design team @structure.workshop @ritchiedaffin , and our clients. #sufaconstruction #structureworkshop #ritchiedaffin #davidleecharchitects

Inside Amento, exposed brickwork creates a calm, tactile backdrop to daily life. Wheat-hued clay bricks paired with lime mortar and Douglas Fir panels bring warmth, texture, and durability to the interiors. It shows how brick can serve as both structure and finish. Finalist in @riba Grand Design House of the Year 2025 Architecture @jamesgorstarchitects Contractor @gippingconstruction Structural engineer @structure.workshop Photography @james_retief #ehsmith #architecturalbrick #ukarchitecture #residentialarchitecture

We are delighted to announce that The Apple House designed by @studiobenjamin of @okrastudio has been shortlisted-listed for the @riba @ribaeast Architecture Awards. The Apple House is built almost exclusively from natural, low-carbon and locally sourced materials and is a place of exchange and learning: hosting whole-studio gatherings, knowledge-sharing, and symposiums including Working with Earth, Working with Water, The Safe Green Space and The Power of Trees, to name a few. As such, surrounded by the Plant Library, the Apple House is home to the not for profit @sergehillproject which works to bring community cohesion, nature connection and wellbeing to the local community through gardening and other acts of creativity. It is also a base for Landscape Architects @tomstuartsmithstudio . Manufacturers and builders that made the building possible include: Slabside Construction, DASK Timber, HG Matthews (strock floor), Grey Oak (fit out), Will Stanwix (hempcrete walls), Tom Stuart-Smith Studio (landscape) and Structure Workshop (structural engineer). We look forward to welcoming the judging panel in March! You can visit the building during one of the Serge Hill Project Garden Openings. See links in our bio for the full shortlist and more information. 📷 @buildingnarratives #thesergehillproject #theapplehouse

Amento by @jamesgorstarchitects is defined by bold geometry and monumental brickwork. Two intersecting walls, built in wheat-hued clay bricks set in lime mortar, rise nearly 5m and extend into the landscape as sculptural elements. They shape space, structure and long-term presence. Finalist in @riba Grand Design House of the Year 2025 Contractor @gippingconstruction Structural engineer @structure.workshop Photography @james_retief #ehsmith #architecturalbrick #ukarchitecture #residentialarchitecture

Hemp House - A research-led project developing low-carbon construction knowledge within the studio, and focusing on regenerative material sourcing and circular economies. A house made almost entirely out of bio based and reclaimed materials, and mostly out of hempcrete, timber and lime. We are very grateful to our clients for their ambitions and support in using the project as a demonstration that bio-based materials can produce robust and beautiful spaces, and allowing us to share knowledge and solutions for a typical terrace house brief. 📸 : @rory_gaylor Structures: @structure.workshop #hempcrete