‘Machine Sculpture Pavilion’ in Kistefos, Norway begins construction. Sited outdoors in a former paper mill site outside Oslo, this is a unique commissioned work consisting of a fair-faced concrete pavilion located on a river meadow, open on the approach side as well as to the river. Functional from May through to October inclusive, the pavilion houses a projected virtual art work by John Gerrard, Artist. The pavilion is hydro-electrically powered by the local river. The pavilion is due for completion this winter. This work represents the third collaboration between A2 Architects and John Gerrard, Artist.
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House at Pearl Beach, Australia gets its finishing touches
A2 are invited to lecture at The University of Sydney as part of Masters Studio at The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
Tullamore Community Arts Centre is lodged for Part 8 Planning Approval with Tullamore Town Council and Offaly County Council
Extension to Gorey Community School is completed. A science room, arts room and home economics room surround a graveled entrance courtyard to the front of the existing school.
Circular in form, this single-storey fully accessible 1000-pupil post-primary school competition entry for Tallaght has no front or back, leaving it free to be explored from all directions. Compass-like in its orientation, a primary north-south axis is countered by a number of perpendicular axes that run east-west with the site’s existing contour lines to establish the circulation system for the school.
The public rooms of the school (G.P. Hall, Sports Hall, Staff Room, Lecture Theatres) are organised on its periphery to provoke interrelation with the external public spaces encircling the school.
The choice of construction system is made on pragmatic grounds in order to significantly reduce builders’ preliminaries and to shorten the construction timeframe as a result of the extensive use of prefabricated building elements.
House at Pearl Beach, Australia nears completion. Fairfaced alabaster blockwork, exposed insitu concrete, polished terrazzo and sliding hardwood screens are employed.
Gorey Community School extension rises from the ground. Three specialist classrooms (Science, Home Economics and Art) are being added to the front of the existing school thereby making a new entrance courtyard. A pattern of fairfaced smooth and textured white cement blocks are set at different planes to give depth to external facades.
