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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