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T3 Collingwood wins gold in iF awards

Sumitomo Forestry is pleased to announce that two of its facilities/products have received iF Design Awards in 2025. The joint mass-timber office development, “T3 Collingwood” in Melbourne, Australia received the top honour, the Gold Award. Source: Timberbiz The interior design idea, “Kids’ Base (around the centre of the house),” conceptualized by Sumitomo Forestry received the Design Award. This is the first time that Sumitomo Forestry Group has received this award. The Gold Award for T3 Collingwood was won by recipients Hines (a US developer), Sumitomo Forestry, NTT Urban Development Corporation and Jackson Clements Burrows Architects (Australian architecture firm). T3 is a mass-timber office building in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Comprising 15 floors above ground and two basement floors, it is designed as a hybrid structure with the basement to sixth floors made of reinforced concrete, and the seventh to 15th floors made of timber. It is the tallest mass-timber office building to be completed in Australia. Cross-laminated timber made from Australian Radiata Pine is used for the floor slab, and GLT (glued laminated timber) from Victoria, is used for beams and pillars with an exposed finish. The building received the highest Gold rating for its exceptional office design, openness that draws in an abundance of natural lighting, quality and longevity of the building. The German “iF International Forum Design” has been presenting awards to outstanding industrial designs from around the world since 1954. There are nine award disciplines: Product, Packaging, Communication, Service Design, Architecture, Interior Architecture, Professional Concept, User Experience (UX), and User Interface (UI). This year, there were 10,651 entries from 66 countries and regions, which were evaluated by 131 design experts from around the world with 75 entries (0.7% of all entries) selected for the highest award. Along with the Red Dot Design Award (Germany) and the iDEA Award (US), the iF Design Award is said to be one of the world’s three most prestigious design awards.