Wood Awards 2022

 Wood Awards 2022

The Wood Awards is the UK’s premier competition for excellence in architecture and product design in wood. The Awards’ elite independent judging panel of professional experts and specialists visit all the shortlisted projects in person, making the Wood Awards as meaningful and rigorous a competition as possible.

ABBA Arena

Buildings

Commercial & Leisure

Architect: Stufish

Client/Owner: ABBA Voyage (Aniara Ltd)

Structural Engineer: Atelier One, Joe Clifton (Stage One) and Corbett & Tasker

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Auditorium and Rainscreen

Main Contractor: ES Global

Timber Specialist Contractor: Xylotek Ltd

Timber Technical Design: Xylotek Ltd

Structural Engineer: Corbett & Tasker

Wood Supplier (CLT): Hasslacher Norica Timber

Wood Supplier (Finger jointed larch): Piveteaubois  

Species: Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) – European Spruce (Austria), European Larch (France)

Photography credits: © Martin Phelps

Front of House

Structural Engineer: Atelier One, Joe Clifton (Stage One)

Main Contractor: Stage One Creative Services Ltd

Joinery Company: Stage One Creative Services Ltd

Tensile Membrane Design & Fabrication: Architen Landrell

Larch Cladding: Russwood Ltd

Wood Supplier: ZÜBLIN Timber

Species: Cross Laminated Timber – European Spruce (Germany), Glued Laminated Timber – European Spruce (Austria), European Larch (Austria), Siberian Larch (Russia), Birch Plywood (Estonia), Iroko (Nigeria) – PEFC

Photography credits: © Dirk Lindner

Location: London

Timber is helping to take visitors on a voyage at ABBA Arena where it is being used for the world’s largest demountable concert venue, including an auditorium, rainscreen, and front of house facilities.

Home to the ground-breaking virtual concert series, Abba Voyage, the ABBA Arena in East London is the world’s largest demountable concert venue, with a capacity of 3,000.

From the ‘Auditorium’, a four-storey tall seating area made of 1650 unique cross-laminated panels, each up to 9.9 metres long, to the exterior larch timber ‘Rainscreen’ made up of 1400 finger-jointed larch fins which envelop the arena, timber is integral to every part of this project.

Timber continues into the ‘Front of House’ with the central concourse area covered by a hybrid spruce glulam and steel canopy structure. Twenty-four hexagonal canopies, each with a diameter of 10 metres, combine to form the geometric roof structure where LED lighting is integrated into the glulam beams. The concourse is surrounded by seven CLT buildings, each clad with a complex Larch rainscreen.

https://www.woodawards2022.online/shortlists/abba-arena