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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.
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.
A new £3.6 million community fire station, training facility and headquarters for Omagh’s firefighters has become fully operational, providing improved safety for the people of Omagh and the surrounding district.
Design: Ghinlon Architecture. This is an Italian restaurant, Dunne & Crescenzi, set in the luxury retail Kildare Village, in the Republic of Ireland. The fit-out was carried out in phases within a live trading environment. It was a collaborative venture. Kildare Village were a key player in the process, providing logistical support every step of the way.
Design: Keith Williams Architects. The Luan Gallery in Athlone, Co Westmeath has won a coveted Civic Trust Award in the 2014 awards programme. The building sits on a spectacular site overlooking the River Shannon.
Design: Populous. Located on a 12 acre site on the Andersonstown Road in the west of Belfast, Casement Park is one of the largest stadia in Ulster (at 32,500 seat capacity), hosting Gaelic football and hurling matches. The stadium will be redeveloped into a 38,000 all-seated venue, which will become the largest stadium in Ulster and a regional flagship for Ulster GAA.
Grimshaw, in association with Newenham Mulligan & Associates (NMA), has been chosen to produce a concept design for the redevelopment of The Curragh Racecourse, Ireland’s spiritual home of horse racing.
Western Trust’s Southwest Acute Hospital picked up another top design award at this year’s Building Better Healthcare Awards – winner of Best Inpatient Facility in the Building Design class.
Leading architectural practice Keppie Design has completed and handed over The Willows, an Intensive Support Unit for vulnerable children, in Ballee, Ballymena, on behalf of the Northern Health and Social Care Trust.
In 2001 Dundalk Institute of Technology acquired the cigarette factory which is a protected structure designed in 1967. Their objective was to convert 10,000 sq. metres into a third-level educational facility for the departments of Informatics and Creative Arts.
House at Bogwest in Ireland. This house explores a response to a tradition of the built object in the Irish landscape evident in the classic middle size houses of the area.
Athlone’s Luan Gallery has received the architectural award for the Best Cultural Building of 2013 under the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland’s (RIAI) annual awards programme.
Accoding to the architects, “The University of Limerick, occupies a large territory, formerly a Demesne, and is situated on both sides of the lower reaches of the river Shannon, the longest and largest river in Ireland.
