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Opus Architecture and Construction Awards

The Full Awards List

Under €500,000

Commended
Project: House in Rathmines, Dublin
Architects: Boyd Cody, Dublin
Contractor: Ridgeside Developments Ltd

Highly-Commended
Project: House in a Field, Ardivaghan, Co Westmeath
Architects: Denis Byrne Architects, Dublin
Contractor: Oliver Fay & Co Ltd

Award Winner
Project: House Extension, South Circular Road, Dublin
Architects: NJBA Architects, Dublin
Contractor: Hollybrook Construction Ltd, Dublin

Award Winner
Project: A Place for Reflection, Kilsheelin, Co Tipperary
Architects: Bates Maher, Dublin
Contractor: Kieran Doran Building Contractor, Tipperary

Under €5 Million

Highly-Commended
Project: Baggot Court Mixed-Use Development, Dublin
Architects: Newenham Mulligan & Associates, Dublin
Contractor: Patrick Brock & Son, Dublin

Highly-Commended
Project: Private House, Blackrock, Co Dublin
Architects: McCullough Mulvin Architects, Dublin
Contractor: Patrick Brock & Sons Ltd, Dublin

Award Winner
Project: Mews Residence, Raglan Lane, Dublin
Architects: Mahony Architecture
Contractor: Lissadell Construction Ltd, Dublin

Award Winner
Project: Liffey Boardwalk, Phase Two, Dublin
Architects: McGarry NiÉanaigh, Louth
Contractor: Pierse Contracting Ltd, Dublin

Over €5 Million

Commended
Project: Walton Building, WIT, Waterford
Architect: A&D Wejchert & Partners, Dublin
Contractor: John Sisk & Son Ltd, Dublin

Highly-Commended
Project: St Vincents University Hospital, Dublin
Architect: Scott Tallon Walker Architects & YRM Architects
Contractor: Michael McNamara & Co Ltd, Dublin

Highly-Commended
Project: North Tipperary County Council Civic Offices, Nenagh, Co Tipperary
Architect: ABK Architects, Dublin
Contractor: John Sisk & Son Ltd, Limerick

Award Winner
Project: Athlone Library & Civic Centre, Co Westmeath
Architect: Keith Williams Architects, London, UK
Contractor: John Sisk & Son Ltd, Galway

Award Winner
Project: The State Laboratory, Backweston, Co Kildare
Architect: Architectural Services, Office of Public Works, Dublin
Contractor: Pierse Contracting Ltd, Dublin

Heritage Award

Award Winner
Project: Browne Clayton Column, Co Wexford
Architects: Howley Harrington Architects, Dublin
Contractor: Conservation & Restoration Ltd, Dublin

Award Winner
Project: Lifetime Lab, Former City Waterworks, Cork
Architects: Jack Coughlan Architects, Cork
Contractor: John F Supple Ltd, Cork

Award Winner
Project: Irish Architectural Archive, Merrion Square, Dublin
Architects: Architectural Services, The Office of Public Works, Dublin
Contractor: Patrick Brock & Sons Ltd, Dublin

Housing Awards

Commended
Project: Sonas Housing, Ringsend, Dublin
Architects: Cathal Crimmins Architects, Dublin
Contractor: WF Rowling Ltd, Dublin

Commended
Project: Thomond Student Housing, Limerick
Architects: Murray O'Laoire Architects, Limerick
Contractor: Brian McCarthy Ltd, Limerick

Highly-Commended
Project: Student Housing, Victoria Cross, Cork
Architects: DerekTynan Associates, Dublin
Contractor: Bowen Construction Ltd, Cork

Award Winner
Project: Sheltered Housing & Hostel, Gorey, Co Wexford
Architects: Paul Keogh Architects, Dublin
Contractor: Richard Browne & Sons Ltd, Wexford

STUDENT AWARDS

Commended
Brighdin Ni Mhaille, DIT
We wish to commend the Cork Film Centre project by Brighdin Ni Mhaille for its urban regeneration intent and specific site response.

Commended
Siobhan Murphy, DIT
We commend Siobhan Murphy for her masterplan strategy for Holy Cross College, Drumcondra, Dublin, which gives a focus and future direction for an institution, while allowing for evolution and change over time.

Commended
Geoff Brouder, DIT
We commend the Centre for Film & Drama for UCD by Geoff Brouder for its approach to place-making on a section of campus where no shape or place presently exists.

Highly-Commended
Lorna Browne, DIT
We highly-commend Lorna Browne for her project in the north inner city called "Diversity — a Multi-Cultural Market & Meeting Place. Her research, analysis and thesis proposals address the new Ireland of cultural diversity and urban renewal in a quality culturally-sensitive and site-specific way.

Award Winner
Gemma Ginty, DIT
We make the Opus Student Award to "Continuum — a Crematorium on the Threshold", by Gemma Ginty. This is a powerful and imaginative thesis, thoroughly researched both in terms of the ritual of death and the architectural expression of loss in time and place. The flow of space, the ingress of light and the visual link to a renewing landscape are handled with rare skilled and humanity.

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