Marking the 30th year of its prestigious architecture awards, the RIAI announced 23 Award Winners across 14 categories, including Adaption & Re-Use, Culture or Public Building, International, Learning, Living (Homes), Public Space, Well-Being and Workplace. All of the projects on the shortlist have been designed by RIAI-registered architects, based in Ireland and overseas, and were completed in 2018.

City Assembly House won an RIAI award in the Adaptation and Re-use: Conservation category. The building architects were Consarc Design Group Ltd.

Carole Pollard, FRIAI, Chair of the Jury said: “The standard of entries was very high this year. The jury have been visiting the shortlisted projects throughout the country and had a challenging task. The shortlist was made up of exceptional projects including residential homes, commercial spaces, schools, heritage locations and public spaces and it’s encouraging that Irish people recognise the value that Irish architects add to all aspects of the built environment, supporting Ireland’s educational, economic and social infrastructure.”

The Jury for the RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2019 were: Carole Pollard, FRIAI, Chair; Eamonn O’Reilly, CEO Dublin Port, distinguished guest juror; and Architects Alice Casey, MRIAI; Peter Carroll, MRIAI; Aishling Joyce, MRIAI; Dermot McCabe, MRIAI; Peter McGovern, MRIAI; John O’Mahony, FRIAI; Lenzie O’Sullivan, MRIAI.

Read the full list of winners on the RIAI website.

(Image of CAH: Nicola Woods)

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Saturday 15 June: 1pm

Pattern & Print: David Skinner, Ireland’s leading traditional wallpaper maker, conservator and historian will teach you how to make traditional hand block wallpaper and use it to cover a note book, which you can take home with you at the end of the workshop. (6 to 12 years)

Saturday 15 June: 3pm

Lime & Learn: Join Edward Byrne of the Traditional Lime Company, use a trowel and hawk and learn about the unique properties of lime and why it is best for old buildings. Enjoy the opportunity to mix lime and wet dash a wall, the traditional way. (12 to 18 years)

Sunday 16 June: 1pm

Gold & Gild: inspired by Castletown’s splendour, the international historic decorative interiors and materials conservation, Ruth Decowell will guide young hands in the decoration of frames. By applying Dutch gold leaf, each child can embellish their own frame to take home. (6 to 12 years).

Sunday 16 June: 3pm

Create & Carve: make your mark in stone with sculptor and mason, Philip Quinn of Stonemad. You will be able to inscribe your initials in stone and bring it away with you at the end of the workshop. (7 to 18 years)

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The Irish Georgian Society offices will close at 5.00pm on Friday 31 May for the June Bank Holiday weekend, and will reopen from 9.30am on Tuesday 4 June.

The IGS bookshop will be open on Saturday 1 June from 10.00am to 6.00pm. It will be closed on Monday 3 June.

(Image: Nicola Woods)

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The City Assembly House has been shortlisted in the RIAI Architecture Awards 2019!

From 197 entries a shortlist of 48 projects was selected by the Main Jury, Research Jury, Universal Design Jury and Future Award Jury. Also this year 33 Projects were selected for Exhibition by the Main Jury. The Exhibition will be shown during the summer and also will be online, venue and dates tbc You can select your favourite building by voting online, each person only gets one vote so we would really appreciate your vote for the City Assembly House. You can vote by clicking the link below!

VOTE ONLINE!

(Images: Nicola Woods)

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BINGO! marks the second manifestation of the Berlin Opticians Gallery in a physical space. For this iteration, the Gallery inhabits the stunning octagonal Exhibition Room in the City Assembly House, following the inaugural exhibition in the semi-domestic interiors of Merrion Square last year.

BINGO! presents some recent and newly commissioned artworks by ten Irish and international artists whose practice spans all art forms: painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and video. It celebrates the unlikely relationship between contemporary art and Georgian architecture, acknowledging both the moments of happy and successful co-existence and the possible tensions.

5 to 9 June
City Assembly House, 58 South William Street, Dublin 2

Exhibition continues:
Thursday 6 June —Saturday 8 June 10am—6pm
Sunday 9 June 12pm—6pm

For more information see www.berlinopticiansdublin.com

Berlin Opticians Gallery presents and promotes the artists’ works with a scheduled programme of exhibitions available through online documentation every six weeks and punctuated with off-site physical exhibitions and projects in various unique spaces around Dublin.

(Image: David Beattie, Broken Tools, 2010-2019, digital photograph)

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The IGS submission on the MetroLink public consultation emphasised the potential impacts of new stations on architecturally sensitive areas such as Dartmouth Square and flagged concerns about identifying a preferred route in the absence of a comprehensive assessment of constraints (such as architectural and archaeological heritage).

Read the IGS submission in full.

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