Tobiano Clubhouse Cited For Award Winning Design

In 2008, Tobiano was selected 'the Best New Golf Course in Canada' by prestigious Golf Digest Magazine.

Now the elegant wood and stone clubhouse, featuring an open and airy atmosphere as a result of modern construction techniques, can claim an award all it's own.

Tobiano's latest award came at the BC Wood WORKS! 2009 Wood Design Awards competition which showcased how wood can deliver everything from warmth and beauty to leading-edge technological solutions - meeting the needs of any project, large or small.

"We had a record number of nominations this year, and every one of them could have been a winner," said Mary Tracey, executive director of BC Wood WORKS!, following this week's annual awards gala. "The range of winners was astounding."

"Some projects, such as the Richmond Skating Oval and Ontario Art Gallery, demonstrated highly advanced wood technology, and others, such as the Tobiano Golf Clubhouse in Kamloops and Squamish Lil-wat Cultural Centre in Whistler, showed off the amazing natural beauty of diverse wood products."

This is the fifth design competition hosted by BC Wood WORKS!, and the record 110 nominations came from across the province as well as from outside Canada. To be eligible, a project had to have been completed after January 2006 and before January 2009.

In the Commercial Wood Design category alkla Architecture and Design of Squamish, B.C., captured an award for it's design of the attractive Tobiano Golf Clubhouse in Kamloops, completed in 2008. The 11,000-square-foot clubhouse, with a bar, restaurant, offices and pro shop, used fir structurally on the exterior as posts, beams and roof purlins, and as cladding near the entrance. Wood in the interior provides continuity to the structure, and warmth. A golf maintenance building near the clubhouse also used wood for warmth and elegance.