The 2026 Wood Design & Building Awards took centre stage this to celebrate excellence in wood architecture and design at the opening of the Calgary Wood Solutions Conference.

The Canadian Wood Council’s annual awards program, now in its 42nd year, recognizes the outstanding work of architectural professionals from Canada and around the world. This year’s event showcased 27 projects: 14 selected by the Wood Design & Building Awards jury, four receiving special sponsored awards, and nine receiving WoodWorks regional wood design awards. The winning projects demonstrate the versatility of wood across building types and scales, and the ingenuity of the teams behind them.

“Congratulations to this year’s award recipients, whose work gives us much to admire and even more to look forward to,” said Derek Nighbor, president and CEO of the Canadian Wood Council. “Through their creativity, skill, and ambition, these teams are showing how thoughtful wood design can create places that are more inspiring, more enduring and better suited to the needs of people and communities. Their achievements move the conversation forward and point to exciting possibilities for the future of design and construction.”