A2 are delighted to be nominated for the EU Mies Award 2022 for House at Sky Road, Clifden Co. Galway. This is our third time being nominated for this international award, previously for Folding House, Mardyke, Cork City in 2017 and for Pulp Press, Kistefos, Norway in 2015.
A2 are delighted to be appointed by Galway City Council to design sixteen bicycle stations and parklets for Galway City and Salthill. Due to be installed in early 2021, the bicycle stations and parklets across the city are part of an ambitious public realm upgrade programme.
A2 are delighted to have won this year’s Best House Award at the RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2020 for Sky Road, Clifden, Co. Galway. A2 wish to acknowledge and thank the distinguished jury of the RIAI, our client and contractor in receiving this award. This is the third time that A2 have won this prestigious award – in 2017 for Mardyke House, Cork City and again in 2010 for Seaside House, Port Oriel, Co. Louth.
A2 and indeed our clients are delighted with the leading image of our house at Sky Road in the latest edition of House + Design. Thank you kindly to the RIAI and Editor Sandra O’Connell for the coverage.
A refurbished bookend at the entrance to Tralee Garda Station that A2 handed over on behalf of the OPW this month – a mannerly and modest three bay facade with its original window openings, solid cut stone external stairs, wrought iron railings and over-slated concrete roof barge cappings.
Catherine Martin TD, Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht, congratulated the successful applicants who have been shortlisted in the selection process for Ireland’s representation at the 2022 Venice Art Biennale.
Speaking today, Minister Martin said:
“The impressive list of shortlisted parties is an indicator of the strength of Ireland’s visual arts sector and the platform of the Venice Biennale offers a key opportunity to raise the global visibility of our artists. My congratulation to the artists and curators selected, this is a true recognition and validation of the impact of your work to date as well as your vision for the Venice Biennale”.
The successful artists and curators, who were selected following an open call by Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council are artist Elaine Byrne with curator Helen Carey; artist Marianne Keating with curator Miguel Amado; artist Niamh McCann with architect Peter Carroll and curators Belinda Quirke and Hugh Mulholland; artist Bea McMahon with curator Matt Packer; artist Ailbhe Ní Bhriain and curators Mary Hickson and Francis McKee; artist Niamh O’Malley and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios curatorial team.
These shortlisted teams will present their detailed proposals to a panel comprising representatives of Culture Ireland, The Arts Council and international experts in Autumn 2020 when final selection for Ireland’s representation will be made. Ireland’s representation at the Venice Biennale is an initiative of Culture Ireland, in partnership with the Arts Council. Exhibiting at the Biennale provides a high profile platform for the international art world to engage with Irish contemporary art practice and to showcase the strength of Irish visual arts and the financial support of €300,000, awarded for the selected project reflects this.
A2 are granted full planning permission for a garden cafe overlooking East Pier at Haddington House, Dún Laoghaire. Tiered insitu concrete walls with exposed granite aggregate anchor the site while a bronze roof plane topped with sedum is elevated above.
Two of A2’s projects are amongst 33 shortlisted projects in this years Irish Architecture Awards 2020, to be announced in mid October. The projects are Sky Road Clifden, Co. Galway (above) and Rear Return, Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin.
A2 are delighted to get our first front cover of Architecture Ireland and to share it with our colleagues in Dún Laoghaire Architects Department for our shared project, Rapid Delivery Housing at George’s Place, Dún Laoghaire.
Our public realm is temporarily limited to 2000 metres. This restriction offers the possibility of a new relationship with our local built environment and a changing perspective on our immediate surroundings. Within 2000m is part of Project 20×20 – A Year Like No Other by the Irish Architecture Foundation, which aims to form a new overview of our relationship with architecture and with the communities that architecture serves. Peter Carroll was invited to contribute the following observation:
Rainwater Rills, Stoneybatter – Of the 2,000 or so artisan houses in Stoneybatter, one of the densest areas of Dublin per person per square metre, one can find impressed rainwater rills at every fourth terraced house embossed into the original turn-of-the-century concrete footpaths. A circular indent receives the rainwater from the cast iron downpipe before scoring the footpath and the granite kerb with a 40mm half-round recess, always at a four degree angle to the perpendicular. A small, frequent, treasured delight!
