Archetech Issue 22 2016 | Page 24

ARCHITECT@WORK ARCHITECT@WORK, the most unique trade fair in the UK for architects, designers and specifiers, which is carefully curated by an external judging panel overseeing the product selection will open its doors at Olympia National Hall on 27th and 28th January. Over 90 of Europe’s top architectural supplier will reveal their innovations, which companies have gone through a rigorous selection process, in the UK for the first time. Architects, designers and specifiers can visit the event free of charge by registering through the following link using code 1360: www.architect-at-work.co.uk. WOOD & ARCHITECTURE Archetech - Page 24 This year’s London edition has chosen wood as its theme. To honour this beautiful material, London’s SCIN GALLERY, Materials Library and Resource, presents a collection of wood curiosities called Growth Rings. The exhibition examines the species of trees that give us the wood we use in architecture, it looks at the DNA of wood and its physiology. The Amercian Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) partnered with designers Kolman Boye and furnituremakers Benchmark to create a towering structure of food plates in a commission for Wallpaper* Handmade 2015 called the Rotunda Serotina. The three-storey ‘general store’ will be presented in London for the first time as part of ARCHITECT@WORK and also plays to the wood theme for this edition.