{"id":107619,"date":"2024-11-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=107619"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:15:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T23:15:56","slug":"gothic-fernery-wins-national-timber-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/gothic-fernery-wins-national-timber-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Gothic fernery wins national timber award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARCHITECT Andrew Fedorowicz has won first prize in the Standalone Structure Category of the National Timber Design Awards for the Ballarat Botanical Gardens&#8217; gothic fernery.<\/p>\n<p>The structure made of durable Cumaru timber, with hidden metal reinforcements, was rebuilt in recent years after the gardens&#8217; original 1887 fernery was demolished in the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>Having worked on the project for the City of Ballarat for five years between 2018 and 2023 \u2013 with only one page of crude original design images as reference material \u2013 Mr Fedorowicz said the outcome has been thrilling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen buildings all over the world, and never seen anything as magnificent as this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038 \" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/11\/Thesedrawingsclearly_61009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"304\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Andrew Fedorowicz aimed to replicate the original structure as best as possible with the simple reference material he had, he was required to design the decorative details himself. 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