Aurora Belfast Building – Residential Tower
At present the Aurora building site sits on the southern fringe of Belfast City Centre with most recent re-development work centred on the Lagan River.
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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.
Wicklow Hills House Ireland: Maytree Home
This house is in essence a simple bold sculptural form which sits at the foot of a steep escarpment in the Wicklow hills. It is a two storey house with vehicular and pedestrian access from the Bray Road.
St. Patrick’s Cottages, Ireland House Design
Design: ODOSarchitects. The client’s brief simply asked for a new family home with more light and space but they were adamant that they did not want to move from the area. So, a new dwelling was designed to sit at the bottom of their unloved and overgrown back garden.
Bord Gais Networks, Finglas Building, Dublin
Oliver Chapman Architects were successful in being invited to the second stage of an international competition for the new headquarters’ building for the Irish gas board.
Greystones New Quarter, County Wicklow
The concept masterplan for a mixed-use development at Greystones New Quarter, Co Wicklow, will incorporate strong sustainability and environmental aims. The project comprises a variety of uses integrating residential, civic, educational, commercial and leisure facilities.
Wexford Festival Opera House, Ireland, Building
The rebuilding of Wexford Opera House, is one of Ireland’s most important cultural projects of recent times, and has been completed on schedule for the 2008 autumn opera festival.
Adamstown Central, Dublin: Metropolitan Workshop
Adamstown Central, the new town centre development vision led by UK architects Metropolitan Workshop, has secured planning. It is part of the larger Adamstown development, 16 kilometres west of Dublin, billed as Ireland’s first 21st Century New Town.
Egan’s Coffee Bar, Portlaoise Building
The nature of the work was to establish the relationship between differing programmatic requirements a juice & coffee shop at ground floor level, a roof terrace & bar an existing nightclub on the rear upper level.
34 Palmerston Road, Dublin House: New Home
This project involves the construction of a new two storey addition to the rear of a large three storey semi-detached bricked fronted Victorian house in the south of Dublin.
Limerick Bridge, Ireland University Project
The function of bridges extends beyond mere utility, and they have an inherent significance and symbolism as connectors and conduits, gateways and meeting places, landmarks and icons.
Kildare Civic Offices Ireland – Council Building
Kildare County Council Offices. This project is formed around the public space of the people, the civic garden. A slowly inclined ground plane gradually ascends from the street creating a civic amphitheatre for Naas.
National University of Ireland Building Galway
Galway City Council has given the go ahead for the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway’s new ¤60 million (£40.2 million) engineering school – the University’s largest capital development project to date.
Sligo Hotel Building, Ballytivnan, Ireland
Mixed-use development: 90-bed three star hotel with a large function suite, restaurant, bar & fitness club ; 35-bed four-star hotel suites ; 69 dwellings above street-level retail; crèche, kindergarten.
Thurles Building, Source Arts Centre & Library
This building’s geometries arise out of its very particular location – crouched like a cat at the medieval gate of Thurles and stretched around a bend in the river Suir. A singular folded roof encloses very different volumes, rising and falling like a small mountain range from a strong base – the boardwalk extended over the river.
Clonakilty Ireland Home: Dirk Cove House
Galley Head Lighthouse is one of a chain of beacons built to protect shipping along the rock-bound, stormy Atlantic coast of Ireland. Its name belongs with Fastnet and Mizen Head, among the litany of famous storms and wrecks synonymous with this coastline.
