Ireland’s First Festival Of Architecture Announced In Cork Today
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IRELAND’S FIRST FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE ANNOUNCED IN CORK TODAY
Cork 2005 today announced Festival of Architecture Cork 2005, sponsored by construction firm John F Supple Ltd, as a key architectural event of the year. Running from June 11 to July 23, this month-long festival features five major architectural events and exhibitions.
New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific Exhibition
June 11 – July 23, Crawford Gallery, Cork City
This prestigious touring exhibition, sponsored by John F Supple Ltd, is a showcase of work by twenty of the best young architects working around the globe today. Ireland is honoured to be represented in this exhibition in the form of Irish architect Gráinne Hassett of Hassett Ducatez Architects, Dublin. The striking exhibition installation in the Crawford Gallery has been designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey, architects of UCC’s award-winning Lewis Glucksman Gallery.New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia Pacific Symposium
June 11, Millennium Hall, City Hall, Cork
The New Trends Symposium, sponsored by cadcoevolution, Autodesk, Tegral, the RIAI and the Arts Council, will be moderated by Shane O’Toole (Honorary Committee Member of New Trends & Irish Commissioner for the Venice Biennale 2004). The Symposium brings together architects from Europe, Asia and Australia, including many of those showcased in the New Trends Exhibition, to debate and discuss the issues and challenges that are already shaping a new, distinctly 21st century architecture.RIAI Irish Architecture Awards Exhibition
June 11 – July 9, Crawford Gallery, Cork City
On June 1 2005 the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) will announce the winners of the 2005 Architecture Awards. A total of 15 general awards will be presented by Anthony Reddy, President of the RIAI and Frank Ryan, Managing Director of Roadstone, the awards sponsors, who will also sponsor a traveling exhibition of the Award winners to communicate the range, variety and quality of the work of RIAI and RSUA members. This exhibition will be in Cork in June and July 2005 as part of the Festival of Architecture Cork 2005.Michael Scott centenary exhibition
June 24 – July 23, Crawford Gallery, Cork City
Michael Scott (1905-1989) is remembered as the “father of modern architecture in Ireland”. One of the major figures in 20th century Irish culture, he was not simply an architect but an Abbey actor and a patron and champion of the visual arts. In 1967 he was chairman of Rosc, the first major exhibition of international contemporary art in Ireland. The Michael Scott exhibition, presented by the Irish Architecture Foundation and sponsored by Scott Tallon Walker Architects, will be inaugurated on June 24, the centenary of his birth.In addition, the Festival of Architecture Cork 2005 will highlight Eighteen Turns, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2001, designed by Daniel Libeskind, Architect, with Arup, a unique architectural structure by Mr Libeskind, at Fota House & Gardens, Cork. This incredible installation signals the direction of future architecture and serves as a visible example of the new materials, new techniques and new trends being discussed throughout the Festival of Architecture. Viewing of the pavilion is free of charge daily. Eighteen Turns has been kindly loaned to Cork 2005 by its owner, cite, project-managed by Keogan Architects, supported by the OPW and facilitated by the Fota Trust.
Architect Shane O’Toole, New Trends symposium moderator, speaking about the Festival said today ‘There has never been a Festival of Architecture in Ireland before, so Cork is breaking new ground with an unmissable series of events. At the New Trends symposium more than a dozen of the world’s leading architects from across Europe, Asia and Australia will take the stage on a single day and let us gaze with them into the crystal ball of architecture. Who doesn’t want to know what the world of tomorrow might look like? If New Trends promises to reveal the shape of things to come, the Irish Architecture Awards exhibition will showcase the best contemporary buildings in Ireland, north and south. The Michael Scott exhibition will celebrate the “father” of modern architecture in Ireland on the centenary of his birth in June 1905. And Daniel Libeskind’s magical Eighteen Turns pavilion is guaranteed to provoke amazement and provide weekends of family fun in Fota this summer.’
‘This international festival is important not only in the architectural world, but in a more general context of international dialogue, reflecting, as it does, the exciting differences in thinking from Hong-Kong to Helsinki to Cork. We are honoured to be the first architectural festival in Ireland, and for Cork to be the only European venue to host the New Trends exhibition in 2005. Anyone interested in the diversity of cultures and their place in world structures will be challenged by this extraordinary event’, noted Mary McCarthy, Director of Programme Cork 2005.
Barry Supple of John F Supple Ltd., sponsors of the Festival and the New Trends exhibition, added: we are delighted to be associated with the Festival of Architecture Cork 2005 and are particularly glad that its key elements are hosted within the New Wing of the Crawford Gallery which was a major project for our company and which, we believe, demonstrates the fusion possible between high architectural values and construction skills. We hope that the dynamic envisaged by those first involved in launching the New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia Pacific will be evident in the debate and cross fertilisation of ideas in the days and weeks to come.
The Festival of Architecture Cork 2005 is also supported by the newly established Irish Architecture Foundation, an organisation supported by the Architectural Association of Ireland, the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin City Council, the Irish Architectural Archive, the Office of Public Works and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. The Irish Architecture Foundation is grant-aided by the Arts Council and part-funded by the RIAI with the aim of bringing architecture to a wider audience.
All FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE CORK 2005 events are FREE.
For full details on all elements of the festival, see http://www.cork2005.ie <http://www.cork2005.ie> and http://www.riai.ie <http://www.riai.ie>Great idea. Particularly the Michael Scott aspect of it.
I agree it is great to see such a choice of events in one place so close together
That is a really interesting article.
Does anyone in Cork have any interest in architecture or is it just the financial value of urban land?
I think there is a vibrant interest in architecture in Cork and more so nowadays it would seem. I think over the past years up until possibly late 2002, architecture never really gave Cork any particularly substantial designs that gave it much to talk about really (other than the golden oldies but you can only talk about them so much before your face turns blue!!). Sure we had the Gate multiplex and apartments development, but thats nothing to be proud of and a few other buildings. but they were few and far between. Now theres a loada building and development activity and suddenly architecture is the hot topic of today cos people are interested in helping shape the city better all the time. And now real landmark buildings like Clontarf street, Patricks quay, Lavitts quay and Eglinton street are giving people a better interest. i suppose thats evident in the amount of people using the Cork page on this website (not just members, regular visitors which I was for about a year before i registered!!!) I and i know loads of others have been reading this article and are really looking forward to the festival. Im sort of proud the festival is being held in Cork. it should be an annual thing and promote the place a centre of archiectural excellence (which it has a long way to go yet, but keep the Clontarf, Eglinton, Patricks quay, Camden courts and lavitts quays coming, and we may get there someday!!!! 😀
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