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Wood Awards 2014
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft by Adam Richards Architects won the Arnold Laver Gold Award in the 2014 Wood Awards competition at the winners’ ceremony in Carpenters’ Hall on the 18th November.
The Diamond Jubilee Fenland Black Oak Project
Early in 2012, a unique 5,000 year old sub-fossilized trunk of an ancient giant oak tree was discovered in the Fens of Ely in Cambridgeshire. Such oak is usually referred to as “bog oak” but, having gained permission from Buckingham Palace, we are referring to the project to preserve and utilize this remarkable find as the “Diamond Jubilee Fenland Black Oak Project”.
Wood Awards 2013
Bishop Edward King Chapel by Niall McLaughlin Architects has taken the Gold Award in this year’s Wood Awards 2013 competition.
Carpenters’ Craft Competition 2013
The Master of the Company Martin Mosley presented the prize to the winner in the Under 20 section, Samuel Maclean from Inverness College. Samuel was runner-up in the 2011 competition and has also achieved the distinction of winning this section in 2012.
Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet July 2013
Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet July 2013
Princess Anne visits the Building Crafts College – February 2013
HRH Princess Anne visited the Company’s Building Crafts College in Stratford, East London on 14th February and met many of the students there. The Princess Royal, who is President of the City and Guilds of London Institute, was given a tour of the College by Principal Len Conway, who said “The College enjoys welcoming all its visitors but Princess Anne’s visit was particularly special.
