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18| RSUA Design Awards House at Maghera named Northern Ireland’s Building of the Year The Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA) has awarded the Liam McCormick Prize for Northern Ireland’s Building of the Year to ‘House at Maghera’, in Castlewellan, County Down by multi award winning architects McGonigle McGrath. The family dwelling joins an illustrious list of buildings including the Giants Causeway Visitors Centre and the Lyric Theatre which have previously won the prestigious award named after one of Ireland’s greatest 20th century architects. Other winning buildings at the RSUA Design Awards 2016 included the uplifting Banbridge Health and Care Centre by Kennedy Fitzgerald Architects in association with Avanti Architects, an innovative social housing scheme in Carryduff for Choice Housing designed by PDP London Architects and the sensitively restored Graduate School at Queen’s University by Consarc Design Group. Martin Hare, RSUA President said, “The RSUA Design Awards primary purpose is to promote excellence in the design of our built environment with the view to making Northern Ireland a better place to be. There is no doubt that all thirteen projects that have received awards this year have truly enhanced our landscape and our communities. These projects demonstrate the positive impact good design can have on our society including its critical role in making Northern Ireland a more attractive place for citizens, tourists and investors.” “I applaud the determination of the clients, architects and everyone involved in the delivery of these projects as they have upheld design quality often against a backdrop of severe budgetary pressures. It shows it can be done and sets down a challenge to everybody involved in creating our built environment to match or even exceed that design quality. We all have a role in creating a brighter future for Northern Ireland and architects are ready to play their part.”” Best Social Housing Project sponsored by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive Winner: Killynure Green, Carryduff by PDP London Architects About: A social housing development commissioned by Choice Housing Ireland with sustainability at its core. Judges said: “This successful competition-winning development is an exemplar project which demonstrates a unique approach to comply with an ambitious sustainability brief. A series of social housing clusters are carefully positioned in a landscape of private, semi-private and public open spaces. Enclosed south facing winter gardens define the architecture of the housing clusters.” Best Single House or Extension Over £100,000 sponsored by Lowry Building and Civil Engineering Joint Winner: Grillagh Water House, Maghera, Co.L’derry by Patrick Bradley Architects About: An experimental housing project designed to help change the Liam McCormick Prize Winner: House at Maghera, Castlewellan, Co.Down by McGonigle McGrath About: This family home for a professional couple and their three children was designed to be bright and spacious and complementary to the character or the village. Judges said: “The Liam McCormack Prize is awarded to the entry that best demonstrates design excellence in all its attributes. This superb family dwelling exudes such excellence from the inspired development of the underlying concept through to the highly disciplined and detailed execution of the resultant design vision. This wonderfully crafted home evokes a strong sense of place, paying subtle homage to local traditional building forms, whilst also creating a strong visual link to the calm solidity of the backdrop of the Mourne Mountains.” Project of the Year: The Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Belfast perceptions of what rural contemporary architecture is or can be. Judges said: “A carefully composed piece of architecture making innovative use of shipping containers, the design of this delightful rural dwelling displays self-confident and bold decision making in both its exterior and interior treatments. The siting of the dwelling on the family farm is expertly managed taking full advantage of the surrounding countryside and integrating perfectly with its immediate natural landscape. Stunning and memorable.” Joint Winner: House at Maghera, Castlewellan, Co.Down by McGonigle McGrath
RSUA Design Awards |19 About: This family home for a professional couple and their three children was designed to be bright and spacious and complementary to the character or the village. Winner of the Liam McCormick Prize 2016. Judges said: “This brilliantly conceived dwelling is rooted in the history of traditional rural building forms, and is both elegant and restrained throughout. A masterly control of internal and external spaces, building materials, precise detailing and natural light define this exceptional and consummate design.” Best Public Building Under £3millon sponsored by the Central Procurement Directorate of the Department of Finance Winner: Home from Home, near Belfast City Hospital by McGonigle McGrath (Also won a RIBA Regional Award and RIBA Regional Client of the Year Award) About: One of a series of ‘Homes from Home’ for CLIC Sargent, the Cancer Charity. This facility offers the families of children undergoing treatment in the nearby Regional Cancer Centre free accommodation for the duration of the treatment. It also separately accommodates the charity’s local office. Judges said: “This accomplished restoration and extension is a well detailed and thoughtful project. The collaboration between architect and client is evident. The contemporary expression fits perfectly in the context of the conservation area.” Best Public Building Over £3millon sponsored by the Central Procurement Directorate of the Department of Finance Winner: Banbridge Health and Care Centre by Kennedy Fitzgerald Architects in association with Avanti Architects (Also won a RIBA Regional Award) from a final shortlist of four very strong projects, Banbridge Health and Wellbeing Centre was judged to be a very close runner-up to the winner.” Best Commercial Project up to £3million sponsored by JP Corry Winner: Creative Industries Building, Weavers Court, Belfast by Doherty Architects About: A building that was a candidate for demolition and replacement became the feature of this project to provide Grade A office space on behalf of Linfield Properties. Judges said: “A rare and thoughtful example of a carefully considered environment that takes a holistic view of the working day providing a variety of tranquil work and rest spaces, both internal and external. The existing building is seamlessly integrated into an accomplished formal proposition nuanced by orientation, aspect, and materiality.” Best Public Space sponsored by the Department for Infrastructure Winner: Lagan Weir Footbridge, Belfast by AECOM About: The bridge, designed for both cyclists and pedestrians, was conceived as a silver blade spanning the River Lagan and as an extension of the public realm from Donegal Quay. Judges said: “This new addition to the city provides not just an attractive connection between the centre of Belfast and Titanic Quarter, but is in its own right a new public space. It connects with a number of recent public realm works along the river. The bridge is wide, enticing and elegant. It has created a place on the river for the public to pause and admire the vistas along the Lagan, both day and night.” Best Cultural Project sponsored by the Department for Communities Winner: Portico, Portaferry, Co.Down by Maxwell Pierce About: A local health facility to provide a range of primary care, community care and actute diagnostic services. Judges said: “This project comprises a variety of defined spaces providing a wide spectrum of care services to Banbridge and its catchment area. Notwithstanding the complexity of the programme and the challenges of public procurement, the outcome here is a calm uplifting civic building deftly interwoven into its site, a tangible affirmation of the value of the public domain. This is a laudable and humanising achievement transcending current fixations with that which is readily quantifiable, to provide delightful, bright, well-proportioned spaces of tranquil excellence and service for this society. In deciding on the winner of the Liam McCormack Prize for the best overall project
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