THE PUBLIC has been invited to vote for their favourite new building from a shortlist of 38 projects around the country.
Among those shortlisted are Dublin’s Aviva Stadium, the redeveloped Milk Market in Limerick and the Long Room Hub, a new research building at Trinity College Dublin.
The public can vote online (irisharchitectureawards.ie) or on the Irish Architecture Awards page on Facebook. Voting will end at midnight on Sunday, July 10th.
Now in its fourth year, the public choice award has proved highly popular and received some 10,000 votes in 2010.
Previous winners of the award, which is organised by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, include the Criminal Courts of Justice at Parkgate Street in Dublin and the redeveloped Thomond Park Stadium in Limerick.
The 38 projects were shortlisted from the 134 entries received across 15 categories, which include emerging practice, public building, health and leisure.
The projects which made the shortlist include Kilmainham Congregational Church (John J O’Connell Architects); Merlin Park Hospital’s child and adolescent mental health unit in Galway (Moloney O’Beirne Architects); Kilmeena Village, Co Mayo (Cox Power Architects); and the Skibbereen Credit Union (Mike Shanahan Associates Architects).
In addition, 11 residential properties in Dublin, Louth, Galway, Sligo, Meath and Cork are on the 2011 shortlist.
The first winner of the competition in 2008 was a residential property in Donegal, Tuath na Mara on Lough Swilly, designed by MacGabhann Architects.
The Aviva Stadium (designed by Scott Tallon Walker Architects Populous), with its curving, translucent roof, is likely to be among the favourites to take the award.
Other highly rated projects include the Milk Market on Cornmarket Street in Limerick (Healy Partners Architects), which provides a year-round market space.
The shortlist of projects can be viewed on the competition website and the winners across all the categories will be announced on Monday, July 11th, at a ceremony at Wood Quay, Christ Church, Dublin 8.
