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WoodWorks Reveals Winners of 2025 Wood in Architecture Award

Wood in Architecture Award winner — T3 RiNo, a mixed-use office building in Denver's River North neighborhood designed by Pickard Chilton with DLR Group, is one of 10 2025 Wood in Architecture Award honorees. *Photo © Eric Laignel*

Coinciding with last week’s 2025 AIA Conference on Architecture & Design in Boston, the nonprofit WoodWorks – Wood Products Council announced the winners of its 2025 Wood in Architecture Awards. The annual program honors excellence and innovation in American building projects that utilize mass timber, heavy timber, light-frame, and hybrid building design.

Among the education and research–heavy cohort of winners are projects that will be familiar to RECORD readers, including the Kresge College Expansion at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the expansion of San Francisco’s California College of the Arts, both by Studio Gang. (The former was also recognized last week with an AIA Architecture Award.) Additional awardees featured by RECORD include Lake|Flato’s Dicke Hall + Business and Humanities District at Trinity University in San Antonio and a new academic building and gymnasium at the Washington School for the Deaf designed by Mithun. Also recognized are projects by Pickard Chilton, Perkins&Will, HGA (a 2024 winner) Sylvia Richards Practice for Architecture, and Boston-based Utile, whose all-electric The Guild 154 Broadway in Somerville, Massachusetts, is the only multi-family project of the bunch. (It’s also Passive House-certified.)

“This year’s winners exemplify the versatility and impact of modern wood construction,” said WoodWorks president and CEO Jennifer Cover in a statement. “In addition to being high-performing structures, they underscore the power of design to connect people, jobs, and communities.”

The 2025 Wood in Architecture Awards jurors included: Monte French, founder of Monte French Design Studio; Leejung Hong, principal at Winstanley Architects & Planners; Lauren Piepho, structural engineer at HGA; and Robert A. Smith, principal at LMN Architects. Both Monte French and LMN Architects were honored for projects in 2024.

The wining 2025 Wood in Architecture Award recipients are listed below.

154 Broadway
Somerville, Massachusetts
Architect: Utile, Inc.
Structural engineer: RSE Associates
General contractor: Haycon, Inc.
Developer/owner: Construction Managers & Developers, LLC

154 Broadway by Utile. Photo © Utile

Adimab Laboratory Building
Lebanon, New Hampshire
Architect: Sylvia Richards Practice for Architecture; Christopher Smith
Structural engineer: WSP USA Building Structures
General contractor: ReArch Company
Developer/owner: Adimab LLC

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Adimab Laboratory Building by Sylvia Richard Practice for Architecture, Christopher Smith. Photo © Timothy Downing

The Blake School Early Learning Center
Hopkins, Minnesota
Architect: HGA
Structural engineer: HGA
General contractor: Mortenson
Developer/owner: The Blake School

Blake School Early Learning Center by HGA. Photo © Jasper Lazor

California College of the Arts Expansion
San Francisco
Architect: Studio Gang
Structural engineer: Arup
General contractor: Hathaway Dinwiddie
Developer/owner: California College of the Arts

California College of the Arts Expansion by Studio Gang. Photo © Jason O' Rear

Kaiser Borsari Hall
Bellingham, Washington
Architect: Perkins&Will
Structural engineer: Coughlin Porter Lundeen
General contractor: Mortenson
Developer/owner: Western Washington University

Kaiser Borsari Hall by Perkins&Will. Photo © Kevin Scott

Kresge College Expansion at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
Architect: Studio Gang
Structural engineer: Magnusson Klemencic Associates; MME Civil + Structural Engineering General contractor: Swinerton Builders
Developer/owner: University of California, Santa Cruz

Kresge College Expansion at UC Santa Cruz by Studio Gang. Photo © Jason O' Rear

T3 RiNo
Denver
Architects: Pickard Chilton (design architect); DLR Group (architect of record)
Structural engineer: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
General contractor: Whiting-Turner
Developer/owners: Hines / Ivanhoé Cambridge / McCaffery Interests

Trinity University Dicke Hall + Business and Humanities District
San Antonio
Architect: Lake Flato Architects
Structural Engineer: Datum Engineers
General Contractor: Turner Construction
Developer/Owner: Trinity University

Washington School for the Deaf Divine Academic Building and Hunter Gymnasium
Vancouver, Washington
Architect: Mithun
Structural engineer: PCS Structural Solutions
General contractor: Skanska
Developer/owner: Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth

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Matt Hickman is senior news/digital editor at Architectural Record. Previously, he served as Senior Editor at The Architect’s Newspaper and has over a decade of experience as a freelance writer and editor specializing in historic preservation, public space, and the intersection of the natural world and built environment. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Matt holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from The New School.