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Ireland picks up four awards in RIBA Awards 2005
Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / June 20

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Dirk Cove, County Cork

Ireland picked up four awards in RIBA Awards 2005 European Union category last Friday night when seventy one new buildings across the UK and the EU have been rewarded with RIBA Awards for their high architectural standards and their contribution to their local environment. The 71 RIBA Award winners will form the long-list for the 10th anniversary RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects' Journal, which Channel 4 will broadcast for the sixth year running on Channel 4 on Saturday 15 October 2005. During the RIBA Awards event, seven additional buildings from around the world received an RIBA Worldwide Award. These awards, sponsored by Monodraught and supported by The Architectural Review, being presented for the second time recognise significant international projects by RIBA members.

Wheatfield Courtyard

Architect: David McDowell
The architect has taken an abandoned farmhouse and created a new house that has much to say about the re-use of country buildings. With its subtle blend of old and new, it is a fresh and sustainable answer to the problem of how to reconcile housing and landscape.


Athlone Civic Centre

Lewis Glucksman Gallery

Architects: O'Donnell + Tuomey
What is really remarkable about this university art gallery is that the more one looks, the better it gets. That is the sign of complete assurance and maturity. What most artists do is to make simple things complex; great artists make complex things appear simple. This is one of the rare buildings that fits that definition of greatness.

House at Clonakilty

Architects: Niall McLaughlin Architects
The new building, which adds to the conversion of a boathouse and the coastguard's cottage, produces a built shard of its own, distinctive but responsive to the geological forms around. The whole produces a totality in which comfort, aspect, light and geographical drama are synthesised to great effect.

Athlone Civic Centre, Library and Central Square
Architects: Keith Williams Architects
The civic centre and public square is the central project in the regeneration of Athlone's historic centre. The jury commended the scheme for being a public building of considerable elegance and even grandeur, while also expressing humanity and a real sense of public accessibility and ownership.

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The Arts Council

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