Glasgow firm wins Wexford council competition

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2007 / February 20

A young Glasgow-based architectural practice has won an international competition to design Wexford County Council's new headquarters on a hilly site with commanding views over the town. NORD Architecture's design for the €34 million project was chosen unanimously by the competition jury for its clarity of design, organisation, legibility, environmental strategy and landscaping, which includes a terraced "civic garden". An initial 94 entries were shortlisted to six. These were by Bucholz McEvoy, Denis Byrne, Patrick Harrington, Board Architecture, Mario Cucinella and NORD - all of whom were asked to develop their schemes before NORD was finally chosen as the winner.

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