Success for RIAI Architects at Clare Design & Conservation Awards 2011
Published: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
RIAI Architects and Practices have won numerous awards at the Clare Design & Conservation Awards 2011. Coordinated by the Clare County Council Planning Department, the award scheme was open to any building completed in County Clare between 2005 and 2011. It builds on the successful inaugural Awards Scheme held in 2005 and is recognition by Clare County Council of its important role in fostering and awarding excellence in the built environment. Judges were David O’Connor, Fingal County Manager; Sinead Carr, a Director of Service with South Tipperary and Ennis-born Rosita Boland, a staff features writer at The Irish Times.
Limerick-based practice Healy Partners have won two awards in the Clare Design & Conservation Awards 2011, while architect Elaine Bowe, who works with the practice, also won for her own house in Drim, Quin, Co. Clare in the category ‘Best New Single House in the Countryside’ (see photos). Healy Partners’ Ennis Youth Café won in the category ‘Best Accessibility/Social Inclusion Award’, while the practice was also ‘Highly Commended for the Ballyvaughan housing scheme in the Burren.
Conservation architect John O’Reilly has won three awards for 'Addition to a 1930s Cottage in Ballyvaughan', the 'Pavilion Hall' in Lisdoonvarna and the 'Courthouse Gallery & Studios' in Ennistymon.
Other successful RIAI architects and practices include Henry J Lyons Architects for Áras Contae an Chláir; Reddy O’Riordan Staehli Architects for the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Centre; Peter J. Bradfield for The Rowan Tree Hostel; Siobán Mulcahy for Tulla Stables; Solearth Ecological Architecture for Brigit’s Hearth Children’s Centre; Leahy & Conway Architects for Cliffs of Moher Hotel; Maria Josefina Fernandez Frelier for Doolin Cave Visitor Centre; and Paul Stafford, Axis Architects for House Extension at Cloghaundine, Liscannor.
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