Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland Awards
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22 Jun 2009
RIAI Awards 2009 Winners
Best Conservation/Restoration Project Award
Winner: Library, Abbeyleix
DeBlacam & Meagher
Best Cultural Building Award
Winner: Wexford Opera House
Keith Williams Architects + OPW
Best Educational Building Award
Winner: Eurocampus/ French School Dublin
A2 Architects
Best Health Award
Winner: Midland Regional Hospital at Tullamore
Murray O'Laoire & Brian O'Connell Associates
Best House Award
Winner: 10A Grangegorman Villas
ODOS Architects
Best House Extension Award
Winner: Lake House
Clancy Moore Architects
Best Housing (More than one unit) Award
Winner: Timberyard Social Housing
O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects
Best Building in the Landscape Award
Winner: Spa & Leisure Building, Hotel Europa
Gottstein Architects
Best Leisure Building Award
Winner: Ballyfermot Leisure & Youth Centre Project
McGarry Ni Eanaigh Architects
Best Public Building Award
Winner: Leixlip Garda Station
O'Briain Beary Architects
Best Public Space Award
Winner: Tallaght Zip & Plaza
Seán Harrington Architects
Best Retail Building Award
Winner: Victoria Square
BDP Architects
Best Sustainable Project Award
Winner: York Street Social Housing
Seán Harrington Architects
Best Accessible Project Award
Winner: Irishtown Health Centre
A&D Wejchert Architects
The Assessors' Award
Winner: St George's & St Thomas' Church Insertion
Clancy Moore Architects
Public Choice Award
Winner: Thomond Park Redevelopment
Murray O'Laoire & AFL Architects
The President's Award
Winner: Universita Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy
Grafton Architects
15 Jun 2009
RIAI Awards 2009 Shortlist
10 Grangegorman Villas, Dublin
A-House
St. George's Church, & St Thomas's Insertion
Aras na hOidhreacha, Former Bishops Palace
Ballyfermot Leisure & Youth Centre Project
Café / Bar on Deal Pier
Country House, Morna Valley, Balearics, Spain
Domus House, Rathmines
Dwelling at Maytree
Eurocampus/ French School Dublin
Extension to Ellenvale
Hazelwood School
House in Bohermore
Irishtown Health Centre
Jigsaw
Lake House
Landscape Room
Leixlip Garda Station
Library, Abbeyleix
Light House Cinema, Smithfield
Midland Regional Hospital at Tullamore
Origami House
Precast House, Howth
Spa & Leisure Building, Hotel Europa
St Michael's House Swimming Pool
St. Georges Church
Tallaght Zip & Plaza
Thomond Park Redevelopment
Timberyard Social Housing
Tramore Tesco Eco-store
Ulsterbank
University of Ulster Belfast Campus
Victoria Square
Wexford Opera House
York Street Social Housing
RIAI Awards 2009 - incl. architects details
RIAI Awards 2009 Shortlist - Selected Projects in more detail
Grangegorman house
ODOS Architects
photograph : Ros Kavanagh and ODOS architects
A-House Dublin
FKL architects
photo : Verena Hilgenfeld
Abbeyleix Library
DeBlacam & Meagher
photograph : Peter Cook
Country House Ibiza
DeBlacam & Meagher
photograph : Peter Cook
Deal Pier Cafe
Niall McLaughlin Architects
Ellenvale Extension
Catriona Duggan & Achim Gottstein Architects
photo : Paul Tierney
House in Wicklow
ODOS Architects
photograph : Ros Kavanagh and ODOS architects
Hazelwood School
gm+ad architects
photo : Andrew Lee
House in Bohermore
Boyd Cody Architects
photo : Paul Tierney
Jigsaw Dublin
McCullough Mulvin
photo : Ros Kavanagh
Landscape Room
LID Architecture
photograph : Christopher Heaney + LiD Architecture
Leixlip Garda Station
O' Brian Beary Architects
photograph : Ros Kavanagh
Origami House
Jane D Burnside Architects
picture from the architect
Precast House
FKL Architects
photo : Verena Hilgenfeld
Hotel Europa Spa
Gottstein Architects
photo : Paul Tierney
Tallaght Zip
Seán Harrington Architects
photos : Philip Lauterbach
Thomond Park
Murray O'Laoire& AFL Architects
picture : Anew McKnight
University of Ulster Belfast Campus
TODD Architects
picture from the architect
Victoria Square Belfast
BDP
image © Christopher Hill Photographic
Wexford Opera House
Keith Williams Architects + OPW
image : Ros Kavanagh
York Street Housing Dublin
Seán Harrington Architects
photo : Philip Lauterbach
Over 200 entries
RIAI Awards 2009
Date: 22 Jun 2009, 6pm
Venue: The Cow Shed Theatre Farmleigh
Irish Architecture Awards 2007
Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop have been given a Special Award in recognition of their work, by architects in Ireland
The Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland (RIAI) awarded the Radisson SAS Hotel in Glasgow, the Special Award for the Best Commercial Building at the Irish Architecture Awards 2003 ceremony in Dublin, Ireland, on July 7th.
The Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland Award was given to Gordon Murray from gm+ad and Mr Brian Day of MWB Argyle Street Ltd, their clients for the Radisson SAS by Mr Martin Cullen TD Minister for the Environment for the Irish Government and Mr Toal O'Muire, President of the RIAI.
Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland Special Award : Radisson SAS Hotel
"This is a great honour for the practice and for Glasgow, especially as it is given by architects in Ireland where the standard of new architecture is so very high" says Gordon Murray.
Irish Awards Judges:-
Shane O'Toole FRIAI Chairperson
Greg Tisdall MRIAI Dublin Region Representative
Mary Kerrigan MRIAI Northern Region Representative
Gerard O'Callaghan FRIAI Southern Region Representative
Colm Nolan MRIAI Eastern Region Representative
David Thomson MRIAI Western Region Representative
Mary Hanna FRIAI Heritage Council Representative
Sean Madigan MRIAI Overseas Region Representative
Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects - Building PR
There were 8 Special Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland Awards, of which the Radisson is one. 177 Entries, 23 Awards, 28 Selected for RIAI Exhibition.
RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2003
This year the RIAI celebrates the fourteenth year of Irish Architecture Awards, which travels to approximately twenty venues around Ireland and to London. The object of the Irish Architecture Awards is to communicate the range, variety and quality of the architect's work in any one year. The importance of the Irish Architecture Awards is that immediate recognition if given to good architecture in the year of its completion.
In response to the range and quality of the Irish Architecture Awards in recent years, the RIAI has decided to make Eight Special Awards from the overall Awards in the following categories.
Best Building in the Landscape
Best Public Building
Best Commercial Building
Best Conservation Project - Sponsored by the Heritage Council, Ireland
Best Housing Project
Best Contribution to Urban Design
Best Accessible Project - Sponsored by the OPW
Most Sustainable Building Project - Sponsored by the Irish Department of Environment & Local Government
The Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland Award entries are assessed on a regional basis in three categories: category 1: under EUR300,000; category 2: between EUR300,000 and EUR3,000,000; category 3: over EUR3,000,000. Entries are selected for award or exhibition. This year, 177 projects were submitted, and from them 23 projects were selected for award, and a further 28 were selected for exhibition.An assessor from a particular region does not participate in the assessment of entries from that region. The Irish Architecture Awards form a unique annual record of the quality and diversity of architecture in 2003, both at home and abroad. The RIAI thanks Roadstone, sponsor of the awards, whose support enables this exhibition and accompanying
publications to travel throughout Ireland and abroad, celebrating Irish architecture.
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