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The National Forensic Mental Healthcare Facility successfully creates a balance between a secure setting and a therapeutic care environment. While dealing with a challenging and…

This project demonstrates the importance of the provision of facilities for communities to participate in less popular sport, leisure and cultural activities. This significant public…

The extensions to Middleton Park gate lodge and kennels are sunk into the contours of the site.   Subtle and understated to the exterior, the additions…

Set into a restricted site, the new terraces of Annesley Gardens knit into this Victorian neighbourhood of Ranelagh.  This medium-density development respects the established urban…

This is an excellent stand-alone extension to Ratoath College, an existing secondary school. The materials and windows of the new structure are a clever ‘inversion’…

A sophisticated and successful scheme, Castletymon Library is a carefully detailed and crafted building. Sitting sensitively within its context and taking form from its triangular site, the inviting…

A fine piece of work establishing an exemplar riverfront type for the North Wall Quay. Cleverly, it employs architectural devices of layering and depth to…

This carefully crafted and sensitively executed pavilion type building is sensitively situated and seamlessly integrated into its parkland setting. The careful choice and restrained use…

A potentially unpromising work place environment has been skilfully transformed through clever design thinking using an economy of means - a repetitive internal diagonal timber…

This is a calm and dignified solution which preserves and enhances the character of the historic structure and its coastal setting. The new interventions are…

Necessity is the mother of invention and these works are a physical manifestation of this. That a project of this scale was realised in such…

So much of the architectural debate in the construction of housing in a rural setting in the West of Ireland lies in the design relationship…

This extension to an existing farmstead ruin looks to embrace our innate memory, causing us to reflect on our built heritage and the interaction of newly built structures…

This project successfully improves and re-imagines a building type that has become generic and formulaic in recent years.  The jury was impressed with how the…

The Jury enjoyed the relaxed approach to the massing of this house and its connections between inside and out and considered these to be both…

This school addition project carefully draws light and air into the plan and section of the new building – animating the interface of circulation, social…

From the striking silhouette and massing of the stone clad outcrops to the considered choreography of cuts between to make a generous landscape of open…

This projects stand out for its laconic civic presence and its no-nonsense adaptation of the spatial culture of a thriving historic town.

Its architecture embraces…

The National Rehabilitation Hospital demonstrates the positive impact of involving diverse users throughout the design process by providing an environment specifically meeting the requirements of…

Free Market provides an exemplar for collaborative architectural research and is a worthy award winner. The project employed a series of research modes to study the…

A long concrete beam is stretched over the Connemara landscape to create a sheltered horizontal window that frames a view of the sea.  This house…

There is an innate understanding of site and territory that underpins and permeates the architectural decision-making for this university campus outside Paris.  Rhythmic in sequence,…

Islington Council in London has a borough-wide decentralisation energy programme and Bunhill 2 Energy Centre forms a pillar in their ambition to become Carbon-neutral by…

The jury considered ‘Nano Nagle Place’ an exemplar urban renewal project. It demonstrates how large redundant building complexes can be sensitively transformed for a varied…

The generous plan, the careful choice and use of materials, the awareness of the positive elements of site and orientation combine to produce a singular…

Overcoming the physical challenges of the site, including an irregular narrowing shape and minimal natural light, the architect inventively and sensitively used a modest budget…

Winner of the Public Choice Award, this development of fifteen houses for families and older people in Drogheda is an important urban intervention, re-using and…

This project carefully converts an existing stable building to office use, and adds a new home between courtyard and garden.  The house is crafted in…

The Toulouse School of Economics knits seamlessly into the fabric of its place. No accident. Chance had no part to play in this. Here, without…