Peace centre on bomb site sparks design row

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2002 / March 28 2002: Peace centre on bomb site sparks design row

It would be fair to say that there has been a mixed reaction to the new building which has risen from the ashes of Enniskillen's Reading Rooms, destroyed with so many lives by one of the Provisional IRA's worst atrocities - the Remembrance Day bombing in November, 1987. The William Jefferson Clinton International Peace Centre, as the multi-purpose building is called, sparked a furious and unprecedented debate about architecture in the letters columns of Fermanagh's oldest newspaper, the Impartial Reporter, with critics declaring themselves "appalled" by what they saw as a "monstrosity".

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