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18 Projects by Irish Architects in the Mies van der Rohe Award 2022
The nominations for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award – feature 18 projects by Irish Architects. The projects are located in Ireland (13), Northern Ireland (1), UK (2) and France (2). Congratulations from the RIAI to all those nominated as featured below.
The projects are part of a first list of 449 works (completed between October 2018 and October 2020) competing for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2022. The list was announced in Barcelona on 2 February 2021 by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
The RIAI is a national nominator for the Mies van der Rohe Award together with individual nominators.
Click here to view Map Legend EU Mies Award. For further information see also: https://eumiesaward.com/
Ireland
The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny by McCullough Mulvin Architects. Photo Ros Kavanagh
[RE]work: The Butter Museum, Cork by DATUM Architecture Studio, SFA42
Candle Community, Ballyfermot, Dublin by McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects. Photo: Richard Hatch
Goethe-Institut Irland, Extension and Refurbishment of 37 Merrion Square, Dublin by Henchion Reuter Architects and Shaffrey Architects
The Hanging Gardens, Limerick by Carr Cotter Naessens Architects and Denis Byrne Architects
Kenilworth Park, Dublin by Ryan W. Kennihan Architect
Killan Farmhouse, Co. Cavan by t o b Architect. Photo: Aisling McCoy
In, On and Over the Earth, Co. Galway by A2 Architects
Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), Dublin by Scott Tallon Walker Architects
Roe and Co Distillery, Dublin by RKD Architects
Sandford Park Schoolhouse - Le Peton Centre, Dublin by O'Donnell + Tuomey
UCC Student Hub, Cork by O'Donnell + Tuomey. Photo: Jed Niezgoda
Vavasour Square, Dublin by GKMP Architects
Northern Ireland
Colin Connect Transport Hub and Town Square, Belfast by Hall McKnight. Photo: Donal McCann
United Kingdom
Auckland Tower, County Durham, UK by Níall McLaughlin Architects. Photo Nick Kane
Town House, Kingston University, London, UK by Grafton Architects. Photo: Denis Gilbert
France
Operation Paris Saclay pour l’Institut Mines-Télécom, Paris by Grafton Architects. Photo Philippe Ruault
Operation Paris Saclay pour l’Institut Mines-Télécom, France by Grafton Architects
Fundació Mies van der Rohe - Press Release
These works will be joined in September with a new group of nominees finished between November 2020 and April 2021. As a result of the international concern about the spread of the coronavirus, the EU Mies Award has adapted this edition’s calendar in order to include all the works and to ensure the safety, rigor and excellence of the evaluation of all the projects.
The new cycle of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award will reflect on the current challenges that architects, clients, policy makers and other professionals are faced with. Some of these works have been finished during the Covid - 19 pandemic and some are the result of commissions from the 2007 - 2012 financial crisis or shortly afterwards. They will be evaluated during the post-pandemic time in a clear attempt to continue visiting architecture and its users, neighbours, clients and designers face to face.
Climate change, pollution, digitalization and demographic explosion are also, maybe more than ever, a global threat that endangers the planet, its limited natural resources and in consequence our wellbeing. Buildings and infrastructures are responsible for at least 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions so the EU Mies Award must support the rethinking and replanning of Europe in such a way that it prioritises the environment through a cultural project in which design and sustainability are in-dissociable. “The EU Mies Award as the resulting work of a strong network of Europeans, shows that quality can be understood in many different ways but that it must always be connected to the present challenges with the environment and make cities and infrastructure more sustainable and resilient”, reflected Anna Ramos, Director Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
“By creating a bridge between the world of science and technology and the world of art and culture, the New European Bauhaus is an opportunity to make the Green Deal tangible and closer to citizens. The EU Mies Award has been and will continue to be a crucial European instrument to make this cultural change happen”, said Hughes Becquart, Culture Policy Officer, European Commission.