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Find out more abut the Clare County Library & Art Gallery by Keith Williams Architects. Construction has restarted on this structure in Ennis, Co Clare, in the mid-west of the country.
Construction progress was stalled for many months following the collapse of the main contractor LM Keating. The development is once again underway with new contractor Coolsivna from Co. Galway appointed following a public re-tender.
Finally check out The Butler Gallery in County Kilkenny, province of Leinster, by Dublin-based practice McCullough Mulvin Architects. Refurbishment and conservation works transform an historic former almshouse and garden in the South-East of the country. The new state-of-the-art home for The Butler Gallery forms a vibrant contemporary art space.
TODD Architects complete £75m state-of-the-art Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex in County Tyrone, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland. Located on a greenfield site this innovative scheme replaces the previous 118-year old Tyrone County Hospital building.
Design: 2020 Architects. A desire to showcase originality, teamed with a necessity for larger premises and an ambition to push architectural boundaries, has produced a highly innovative and unique, state-of-the-art studio in the North of Ireland.
Six buildings shortlisted for RIBA Northern Ireland Awards 2017. The jury is formed from architects Alastair Hall (Hall McKnight), Kieran McGonigle (McGonigle McGrath) and artist Colin Davidson.
Design: 2020 Architects. The house is constructed on a small, square but stepped site, the entrance is on the Northern boundary, the step runs parallel to the northern boundary in the middle of the site.
Design: 2020 Architects. The concept was conservation of the old forge and the rebuilding the ruins of the original dwelling creating a visual barrier for a modern highly glazed curved roof living accommodation block to sit behind.
Computer Science hub has been opened at Queen’s University Belfast, amidst one of the great architectural set pieces of Belfast. This campus is an architectural treasure trove.
Design: ABK Architects. The project involved the renewal and reorientation of the building to address the new park to the east and the creation of an entrance that reconciled the different functions of Swimming with Gymnasium and Aerobics.
Design: ABK Architects. The proposed design seeks to work with the existing urban grain of the Town of Roscommon so as to create a coherent vision for the public realm.
The BBC report that it is the biggest launch Belfast’s waterfront has seen in a 100 years. The last one was the Titanic itself. Now a century later the slipways are dominated by the imposing Titanic Belfast centre designed to commemorate the most famous vessel ever built.
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Design: Heneghan Peng Architects. New photos of this uncompromising building on the north coast of Northern Ireland, designed “to blend in to the natural rural environment via re-establishment of the ridge-line by use of a part buried structure”.
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. Campus designs, part of a £250m higher education project to provide 70,000 sqm of central teaching, faculty and social learning accommodation across three linked sites in the Cathedral Quarter
Design: Gareth Hoskins Architects / Keppie Design. The new building is designed around a welcoming, three-storey entrance atrium, stepping down to a two-story block formed around an external courtyard space. The atrium and courtyard create a highly legible layout with natural ventilation and daylight.
Victoria Square in Belfast opened in 2008. With a construction cost of approximately £160m, this landmark mixed-use city centre scheme design by BDP architects has changed the skyline of the city with its dramatic glass dome.
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Design: TODD Architects. The University of Ulster’s Belfast Campus principally accommodates students from within it’s very popular and highly respected Faculty of Art and Design.
The first phase of PDP London’s zero-carbon, high quality housing development for Choice Housing in Carryduff, south east Belfast, is now complete.
Design: Jamie Fobert Architects. A sophisticated contemporary house on a tight corner site in a central London mews is the latest home to be shortlisted for the 2015 RIBA House of the Year award.
Article by Peter Cully: Irish architecture has made great strides in recent times, impressing both at home and abroad, where Irish architects have had some major successes. Beneath the headlines perhaps not all is as rosy as might be surmised.
Old See House Community Mental Health Facility. This new Community Primary Care Health Centre provides support for those in the North Belfast area coping with mental health issues.
