RM Designs

27/05/2026

2026 Timber Design Awards Finalists - Prolam Hybrid Building Award - Te Ara Pounmau Māwhera
Located in the heart of Greymouth on the original site of Māwhera Pā, Te Ara Pounamu Māwhera is a purpose-built cultural experience.

Developed in close partnership with Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Māhaki Makaawhio and Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Waewae, and realised in collaboration with Wētā Workshop, the project immerses visitors in narratives of atua, tīpuna, pounamu trade and settlement. The architecture responds directly to its culturally sacred site, while delivering a tourism and community asset.
The project combines NZ engineered timber structural elements with a large span steel framed experience area, yet on the face of it, it is a timber building.

2026 Timber Design Awards Finalists.nz Pounamu Pathway Tony Wilkins Builder Limited

27/05/2026

2026 Timber Design Awards Finalists - Red Stag Mid-Rise Building Design Award (over 3 levels) - Haven Road Apartments
Located on the hillside proximate to the CBD of Nelson, this six-level residential development comprises 31 private apartments with sweeping views across the bay and city.

The building delivers a sensitive model of medium density living and includes one-bedroom units to luxury penthouse suites. It optimises site constraints, view corridors, and materiality to deliver a building designed to enhance the resident experience.

The Urban Design Panel who oversaw the RC process considered multiple criteria to ensure contextual fit and considered the use of mass timber an enormous advantage.

A concrete podium for garaging supports the residential levels above. Mass timber is the primary structure with CLT floors, bracing walls, stairs, lift shaft and roof. Minimal steel posts and beams and lightweight timber frame make up the balance. Life cycle assessment confirms the building sequesters 73,647 kg of CO₂, while an equivalent steel and concrete alternative would have emitted 2,264,718 kg, more than thirty-fold reduction in embodied carbon.

Finalist award night 26th June 2026nz

20/05/2026

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20/05/2026

2026 Timber Design Awards Finalists - Interior Design Award - Peke Waihanga NZALS -
NZ Artificial Limb Service places timber at the heart of both its functional performance and its emotional impact, creating an environment that is warm, culturally grounded, and deeply supportive of patient wellbeing.

Mass timber is the primary structure of the building and the key to the design scope was to see that exposed where possible. CLT wall panels, Glulam beams, and PLT roof panels become a defining interior finish. These elements were intentionally left visible, bringing natural grain, tone, and warmth into the everyday patient experience while expressing the surrounding forest context of Bottle Lake.

Finalist award night 26th June 2026

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13/05/2026

2026 Timber Design Awards Finalists. - .newzealand Innovative Timber Engineering Award - Haven Rd Apartments Nelson -
Haven Road pioneers commercial application of a new generation of CLT screw based connection systems, translating PHD research by .nz team member Tom Wright, recently presented at the World Conference on Timber Engineering, directly into a real building.

This innovation replaces conventional heavy steel connection strategies with timber to timber machined castellations, readily available self tapping screws, and simple steel plates, achieving high structural performance with materially efficient, buildable components.

Finalist award night 26th June 2026

30/04/2026

Something large being built inside the Greymouth library, not your normal library accessory 🥳

20/04/2026

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That's how many finalist we have in the 2026 Timber Awards this year!

18/03/2026

Located on the hillside proximate to the CBD of Nelson, this six-level residential development comprises 31 private apartments with sweeping views across the bay and city. The building delivers a sensitive model of medium density living and includes one-bedroom units to luxury penthouse suites. It optimises site constraints, view corridors, and materiality to deliver a building designed to enhance the resident experiencenz

12/03/2026

Bits and pieces, over 1500 of them! This incredible timber canopy came together first on paper then through to modeling then manufactured and installed. Each step of the way a coordinated team of , .nz and worked through designing something that had no playbook.

26/02/2026

Set a goal, make a plan, now build it.