LUGHNASA – The autumn festival ‘Island Celebrations’, as part of that concluding event of the national tour of Ireland at Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, was held at the Printworks Galway during the last week of September 2024 and the first week in October 2024 as part of Architecture at the Edge Festival. Island Celebrations took all of the work created over the course of the previous year.
‘Island Narratives’ was held in Solstice Arts Centre, Navan Co. Meath during the months of June, July and August 2024. Solstice made the whole building available to Hy-Brasil for the purpose of disseminating the core message that lies at the heart of the project. One of three symposia over the three months, ‘Linguistic Contours’ explored the complex relationship and interdependency between language and the environment. The Meath Gaeltacht, which has its roots in the West of Ireland, consists of two adjacent villages of Ráth Chairn and Baile Ghib, (linguistic islands) which are located close to Navan town in County Meath. The local Irish speaking community were invited to participle in an exploration of how the Irish Language structures our idea of landscape and the environment. Guest speakers included Manchán Magan, Dr. Finola O’Kane, Eoin Warner and Sean O’Dubhda.
Dún Laoghaire Baths by DLR Architects Dept. and A2 Architects has been announced as this year’s winner of the AR Public Awards, alongside two highly commended and three commended projects. The AR Public Award 2024 is a significant global architecture award presented every two years.
The winning Dún Laoghaire Baths was selected by a panel of judges including Ricky Burdett, professor of urban studies at the London School of Economics; Aziza Chaouni, associate professor of architecture at the University of Toronto and the founding principal of the design practice Aziza Chaouni Projects; and Günther Vogt, founder of Vogt Landscape Architects.
The judges said: ‘The architecture and outdoor spaces of the Dún Laoghaire Baths are powerfully designed to resist an unrelenting force of nature: the sea. The buildings and promenade nevertheless convey an inviting atmosphere. The materials seek a dialogue with the rocks in the surf – cast from gravel, water and cement, they appear like geological formations, both materially and in terms of the dimensions of the individual parts.’
DLR Architects Dept.:
Andreé Dargan (County Architect), Bob Hannan (Senior Architect), Sarah Clifford (Senior Architect), Conor Geraghty, Aidan Shannon, Ivar Blanker, Fiona Roche, Andrew Devonport, Don Sheahan & Noelle Sweeney
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A2 Architects:
Peter Carroll (Project Director), Aidan Butler (Project Architect), Raissa Zanardo (Assistant Architect), Matthew Mullin, Luis Pedro, Jim Murphy, Dáire English, Glen O’Dea, David Cooney, Nuno Santos, Seamus Bairéad, Georgy Daly, Clodagh Coughlan & Peter Cummins
DLR Architects and A2 Architects are both thrilled and humbled to be shortlisted with DLR Baths Redevelopment in the last fifteen brilliant public projects from Mexico, Spain, China, Mongolia, The Netherlands, Tanzania, France, Turkey, Switzerland, India & The United Kingdom for the internationally recognised AR Public Award 2024 organised by Architectural Review – and to be also in the last five finalists with DLR Baths Redevelopment in the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2024.
Peter Carroll was delighted to be part of final reviews Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio at the invitation of Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Atelier Grafton, with Antón García Abríl as fellow critic. Extraordinary projects were presented – all centred around the work of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and the theme of ‘Building with the Invisible’ – wind, temperature, humidity and gravity
Substantial Completion of Beechville Gate Lodge, Co. Meath – a cruciform in plan overlaid by a circular mezzanine and topped by a pyramidal hipped roof
Our Director, Peter Carroll, was honoured to say a few words to thank his former employer, Spain’s most outstanding representative of contemporary architecture, Pritzker recipient Rafael Moneo to Dublin – his 4th time in 35yrs, and to thank Valerie Mulvin for her generosity in inviting him to Dublin to celebrate Niall McCullough
The team behind Ireland’s national pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, ‘In Search of Hy-Brasil’, (www.hy-brasil.ie) make a return visit to Coláiste Naomh Eoin Secondary School on Inis Meáin for ‘Island Conversations’ as the first of three events to mark their national tour of 2024. The installation will be in The Solstice in Navan Co. Meath from 22nd June until 31st August ’24 and subsequently in Architecture At The Edge Festival from 20th September until 8th October 2024
A2 are delighted to be shortlisted with DLR Architects Dept. for George’s Place Rapid Delivery Housing in Dún Laoghaire for the prestigious RIAI Silver Medal for Housing for the period 2018-19
Construction work commences with DLR Architects Dept. and Cumnor Construction on additional accessibility works at DLR Baths Redevelopment on Queen’s Road, Dún Laoghaire – a steep 8metre cross-sectional drop along a very complex stretch of coastal site. For completion early July 2024.
