Relative youth has its day at architecture awards

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / April 14

The Architectural Association of Ireland's five assessors had no hesitation in awarding the AAI's top award - the Downes Medal - to the relatively youthful Dermot Boyd and Peter Cody for a mews house in Alma Lane, Monkstown. Their client was moving into it from the main house and wanted a livingroom with similar dimensions on the first floor, to catch light throughout the day. The only common feature of the hodge-podge of mews houses on the lane was that they were all faced in brick, so it had to be a brick house. But instead of doing something drearily conventional, the architects decided to abstract the new mews house "to make it a simple object, a sculptural form, a cube placed in a walled enclosure".

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