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2009 Overall Winner :: Brian Hooper Architect & m3architecture (architects in association) :: Tree of Knowledge Memorial
2009 Overall Winner :: Brian Hooper Architect & m3architecture (architects in association) :: Tree of Knowledge Memorial
The 2009 Australian Timber Design Awards grand prize has been awarded to Brian Hooper Architect & m3architecture (architects in association) for the Tree of Knowledge Memorial in Barcaldine, Queensland. The structure memorialises the tree under which, so legend has it, the Australian Labor Party was founded in 1891. It is made up of over 4913 individual timber members produced from recycled telegraph poles and verified by Timber Queensland against the new recycled timber standards. The memorial consists of a dead, preserved ghost gum tree at the heart of a square frame. Logs hang from the ceiling of the frame in imitation of the canopy of a tree; and charcoaled external timbers create a "veil" around the dead tree.

Regional prizes were awarded at presentation nights in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in October 2009. A highlight of the presentation nights were the expositions given by Andrew Waugh, Director of Waugh Thistleton Architects Ltd of London, the principal architect behind the Murray Grove Tower, the world's tallest modern timber residential building.

Having selected regional winners, judges then had to choose the very best from among those winners for the national prizes. This was no easy task: 2009, the 10th anniversary of the Australian Timber Design Awards, turned out to be our biggest year to date, with more entries submitted than in any previous year. Thank you to our judges, our sponsors and, most of all, the many members of the Australian timber design community who entered projects. The success of the 2009 Australian Timber Design Awards is due to you.

See the 2009 Awards Winners Gallery for a full list of all category winners and runners-up. And don't forget to sign up for ATDA updates and become a fan of the ATDA on Facebook.
 

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