Aai Awards 2005
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AAI AWARDS 2005
The following are the results of the Architectural Association of Ireland’s AAI Awards 2005 – the 20th in this series of annual awards for excellence in architectural design – which were adjudicated on Friday 10 December 2004.
MEDAL
The Downes Bronze Medal may be awarded at the discretion of the Assessors. This year, the jury awarded the Downes Bronze Medal to:
#63 (HOUSE AT) Alma Lane, South Dublin
— Boyd Cody ArchitectsAAI AWARDS
The maximum number of AAI Awards is seven. This year the jury selected 3 projects for Awards.
They are (in alphabetical order by architect):#64 (HOUSE AT) Wellington Road, Dublin 4
— Boyd Cody Architects#52 Youth and community Centre, Donore Avenue, Dublin 8
— Henchion + Reuter Architects#53 Peabody Housing, Silvertown, London E16
— Niall McLaughlin ArchitectsSPECIAL MENTIONS
A number of entries may be selected for Special Mention. This year the jury selected 9 projects for Special Mention. They are (in alphabetical order by architect):
#7 Refurbishment of Car Park, Drury Street, Dublin 2
— Robert Payne, Naomi Lloyd, Cullen Payne Architects#46 Connemara BoatHouse, Moyard, Co Galway
— Agata Falat, Michael Cullinan, MV Cullinan Architects#70 DUBCO Credit Union, Little Green Street, Dublin 2
— Donnelly Turpin Architects#71 Finglas Swimming Pool and leisure Centre, Mellowes Park, Dublin 11
— Donnelly Turpin Architects#54 House at Dirk Cove, Clonakilty, Co Cork
— Niall McLaughlin Architects#55 Houseboat
— Niall McLaughlin Architects#5 Vehicular and Pedestrian Bridge, University of Limerick
— Hugh Kelly, Murray O’Laoire Architects / Adrian Duffy, Arup Consulting Engineers#39 Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork
— O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects#40 Ireland’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice
— O’Donnell + Tuomey ArchitectsIs this an exclusive Paul? I can’t seem to find details or images elsewhere.
boyd cody are doing very well at the moment. selected by alberto campo baeza for the new 10×10. good stuff.
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boyd cody are doing very well at the moment. selected by alberto campo baeza for the new 10×10. good stuffNot to take away from their great work but its also good to have contacts…………….
check out the profiles.
yeah, i know. doesn’t take away from the achievement though. if i’d worked for the guy and years later he turned around and selected me for my excellent portfolio, i’d be delirah.
fergus wrote:as I said great work……….. ]The image certainly displays top quality design and a fantastic amount of space, I also noted that they got an award for Wellington Road.
Are the awards getting a little like the oscars? 😀
What a classically elegant building – and compact yet spacious too
Saying that, I wouldn’t like to be the one trying to keep the kitchen tidy 24-7 🙂In contemporary Ireland I would say that providing space is the main objective of most involved in the built environment field. The wording of your question is very interesting and of course the primary focus of architecture is to design structures for various facets of life. Projects that are conceived as ‘monumental projects’ more often than not fail to acheive that objective, if all the implications on lives of the users of the building along with those affected by the structure are well considered a quality piece of architecture will emerge. It is unlikely to look like a monument and probably sadly unlikely to maximise its financial value but its users and design team will be all the better for it.
The Cubical House Alma Rd is featured in this month’s Architecture Ireland.
Judging by the narrative the client, who built this house in the garden of his or her existing home, knew perfectly well what they wanted. (Maybe they don’t plan to cook in much….)
“Elegant”?..Someone enlighten me because to my eye its an austere, humourless, charmless lump of architectural masturbation – like an unimaginative child given their first set of lego..maybe its all the hard landscaping around but I bet its uncompromising nature makes it an pretty unpleasant environment to live in too..
your understanding of what can be elegant appears to be stunted. like an unimaginative child given a learning disorder.
this small house is elegant both in its proportioning and the integrity and restraint shown in its materials.the last time i checked (i.e. post 1995) humour was not a prerequsit for good architecture
Beauty is in the eye’ i guess; where you see restraint and integrity, I see a building thats entirely formulaic in its references..all the typical architectural cliches you’d expect from a house like this..
still, it’ll be nice when the owners get nets’ up on those windows..mmm
@Deadonarrival wrote:
Someone enlighten me because to my eye its an austere, humourless, charmless lump of architectural masturbation
Your point being?
The fact that a small albeit beautiful house has won the downs medal begs me to ask the question which Eddie Conroy touched on last year. Can the level of achievement in completing a house really be compared to the tackling down of something much more complex like community centre or art gallery? Are we really comparing like with like.
My point is, Helloinsane, to question the merit of awarding a pretigious design award to a building thats frankly pretty dull and conventional. What were the critera for the award – does inventiveness, pushing boundries of ‘taste’ play a part? I guess I’m playing devils advocate – I’m not an architect just a joe soap with an interest in my built environment.
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