House at Maghera, County Down, Northern Ireland
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.
Neglected strand of the Modern Movement
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
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.
Omagh Fire Station, Emergency Services Building
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.
Dunne & Crescenzi Kildare Village, Ireland
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.
Athlone Art Gallery, Westmeath Building
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.
Casement Park Stadium, Belfast
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.
The Curragh Racecourse, Ireland
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.
Enniskillen Hospital – Southwest Acute
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.
The Willows, Ballee: Ballymena Healthcare Building
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.
DKIT School of Informatics & Creative Arts
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 – County Wexford Residence
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.
Luan Gallery – Athlone Culture Building
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.
University of Limerick Medical School, Ireland
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.
Ulster Hospital at Dundonald Belfast Building
Construction is about to start on the next phase of Avanti Architects’ radical overhaul of Ulster Hospital at Dundonald, a major acute hospital serving the Belfast area.
The Rowan Centre Antrim Development
Leading architectural practice Keppie Design has completed and handed over sexual assault referral centre, The Rowan, at Antrim Area Hospital in Antrim, Northern Ireland on behalf of Northern Social Care Trust.
Queen’s University Pavilion Belfast Building
Burwell Deakins Architects has received planning permission for its £2.8m project at Queen’s University Belfast. The practice has designed a series of learning spaces across the campus to create innovative focused and informal study spaces that promote collaborative learning.
Giants Causeway Visitor Centre Northern Ireland
New visitor facilities at the Giant’s Causeway, a World Heritage site, a stark building by heneghan.peng – international competition winning design.
Loug Derg Property, Nenagh: Tipperary House
The existing 1940’s cottage situated in Co. Tipperary was in dilapidated condition. The brief, to refurbish and extend this cottage to become a functional living environment.
