McCullough Mulvin - Irish Architecture Practice

Key Projects Featured Buildings, alphabetical: McCullough Mulvin Architects' recent projects in Ireland - divided into buildings in the city of Dublin and buildings in the countryside. With the exception of the Thurles building (The Source - a library/gallery and theatre) - the projects are small - like trial pieces around a theme and a place - making a skin and form architecture of today, yet reflecting the character of their place. Urban Projects by McCullough Mulvin Architects Coombe School - Childrens' Castle photos : Christian Richters Engineers Ireland (underground building with roof garden) photo : Ros Kavanagh Leeson Park - Victorian Garden Room photos : Christian Richters Leeson Park Lincoln Place Office photos : Ros Kavanagh Thurles Arts Centre and Library photos : Christian Richters In Dublin, this means the brickwork of the city and the issues involved in building in and around the particular nature of terraces, yards, and urban gardens. One project is a buried lecture theatre with a garden on the roof, another an urban school like a childrens castle. Then a small flatiron office building in the 18th century city centre, the fourth a garden room behind the ubiquitous Victorian terraces of Dublin's suburbs. The country buildings reflect the simple while wind-blown forms of the traditional landscape, playing with the dramatically changing light - one an artists studio in Connemara, then a small fire station buried in a hill and a laboratory building in the grounds of a country house. Country Projects by McCullough Mulvin Architects DC Studio - Connemara artists studio photos : Ros Kavanagh Oakpark (Laboratory in grounds of country house): photos : Ros Kavanagh Westport Fire Station photos : Ros Kavanagh McCullough Mulvin Architects is a design-based architecture and urban design practice located in Dublin. Projects include the Ussher Library in Trinity College Dublin, the Model and Niland Gallery in Sligo, Waterford City Library and the Source Arts Centre and Library in Thurles, cultural and civic buildings, libraries and schools; working to define a new public realm in a changing society, dealing with Ireland's diffuse light and stark materiality, exploring the potential for an ordinary monumentality, forming architecture outside and around the brief. The practice has an interest in very particular contexts, making a layered architecture of sublimated reference which reflects a specific response to site and place, or forming modern interventions in existing buildings, an open-ended exploration of materials and form, which can occur at any scale. The work is extended by publication, teaching and research: A Lost Tradition (Gandon Editions, Dublin, 1987), Dublin-An Urban History (Anne Street Press, 1989) and Palimpsest: Change in the Irish Building Tradition (Anne Street Press 1994 and Dublin-An Urban History: The Plan of the City (Anne Street/Lilliput Press 2007) McCullough Mulvin Architects' work has been exhibited in Germany, the UK (Cube, 2007), Spain (Mies Van der Rohe Awards), Czech Republic (Prague Quadrennial 2007), Portugal (Lisbon Triennale 2007) and Italy (Venice Biennale 2008). They lecture on the work in Ireland, Spain, Germany, Norway, the UK, Poland and the USA, are involved in teaching at the Department of Architecture, University College Dublin, School of Architecture DIT, and as visiting critics at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). Major Developments, alphabetical: Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, Dublin - Medico Legal Centre, Dublin 2008- Medico Legal Centre Monastery, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland - The Source Arts Centre & Library, Thurles, Ireland 2007 photograph : Christian Richters Thurles building Usher Library, Trinity College Dublin - More architecture by McCullough Mulvin Architects online soon Irish Architecture The Source Arts Centre & Library Thurles: McCullough Mulvin : Irish Architecture Awards 2007 - Best Public / Cultural Building

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