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In collaboration with Upstart and Dublin City Council this Summer, A2 Architects have master-planned a Pop-Up Park for Dublin City Centre. From 22nd August ‘Granby Park’ will transform a vacant site on Dominick Street Lower. An A2-designed education hub/dining area/exhibition space will be housed within a 20x20m repeating multi-bay layout of partially covered aluminium poly-tunnels on a jigsaw-like platform of painted ply sheeting. The sheeting is arranged loosely so as to allow for pockets of intensive planting. The Park will be open to the public from this coming 22nd August. For more information go to www.granbypark.com
Construction of A2’s pin-wheeled garden pavilion in Lawrence Road, Dublin also nears completion
Raymund Ryan, Architecture Curator at Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh writes about Pulp Press (Kistefos) 2013 in Architecture Ireland, ‘New art venues such as Kistefos are evolving from the known sculpture park paradigm, where discreet objects are set in fields of grass, to a more hybrid condition that is conscious of both context and of new media and that is keen to instigate engaged critical exploration. Pulp Press certainly nudges Kistefos in that direction. With echoes of chapels, grottoes and gazebos from long ago, it represents a new vector for Irish visual culture. Modest in dimension yet full of potential, it scrambles our preconceptions of time itself.’
John Gerrard’s Pulp Press Pavilion opens at Kistefos, Norway. Pulp Press (Kistefos) 2013 is an ambitious site-specific commission by Irish artist John Gerrard. A pioneering artist operating in the area of simulation, Dublin-born Gerrard uses technologies more conventionally employed by the military and gaming industries. His installation Pulp Press is located in a 100m2 poured concrete pavilion designed in collaboration with A2 Architects for the Kistefos Museum – one of Scandinavia’s largest parks of contemporary sculpture. The museum occupies the grounds of a 19th century paper mill in Jevnaker, an hour north of Oslo, Norway. The new pavilion sits along the edge of the river Rands which powers the work by hydro-electrics – the very same river that gave rise to the original factory in 1889.
A2 are appointed to refurbish and extend an impressive Victorian house of remarkable quality on Park Avenue, Sandymount.
A2’s Lucky Lane Housing also played host this month to the Editor of A10 magazine Indira Van’t Klooster for an interview with A2 Architects.
A refurbished public counter and waiting area are added to the Family Law Section of The Courts Service in Limerick City for The Office of Public Works. The project employs oak internal joinery, glazed hatch screens and powder-coated mild steel supports.
Construction of a new garden room to the rear of an existing Victorian house in Clontarf begins on site. A roof light central to the tall timber-lined room is supported by a deep-beamed exposed pinwheel structure.
Construction of ‘Machine Sculpture Pavilion’, Kistefos, Norway in collaboration with John Gerrard Artist continues apace. The forthcoming unveiling of the pavilion will be on 26th May 2013.
A2’s Tullamore Community Arts Centre is featured in the Jan/Feb’13 issue of a10, the journal for new European Architecture. The competition-winning project is currently at detail design stage and is due to go to tender in March’13.
