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A S S E S S O R S Kenneth Frampton . Michael Hussey . Sam Stephenson . David Hughes . Dorothy Cross

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	THE GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY Temple Bar, Dublin Group 91 Architects / O'Donnell and Tuomey Architects This building was designed for a long-established, independent gallery of photography in Temple Bar. The three-storey-over basement building is designed to be seen against theblank brick wall of the former Quaker Meeting House, now the Irish Film Centre. The Portland stone facade is a light-reflective element on the north-facing elevation, and is intended to harmonise with the brick buildings around Meeting House Square. Many of the existing public buildings in the area are faced in Portland stone, most notably City Hall and the Newcomen Bank. The entrance is located at the south west corner of the square, between the Irish Film Centre and a cafe on Sycamore Street, allowing for uninterrupted performances in the central public space. The abstract elevation masks a complex sequence of interior spaces. Window openings are infilled with clear plate glass, translucent etched glass, or zinc metal sheeting. The different materials create a variety of effects between transparency and opaqueness, which have associations with the nature of photography itself. The gallery spaces are designed to provide flexible space for a varied programme of changing exhibitions. The large scale window is the central organising element of the elevation, symbolising the camera lens and operating as a screen for films and photographs projected from the photography archive across the square.
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	DEPT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Trinity College, Dublin Grafton Architects This project consists of a 1100 s.m. extension to the 19th-century Parson's Building in the south-eastern corner of the Trinity College campus. It accomodates highly serviced laboratories and workshops, with ancillary seminar rooms and offices.
	MEWS DWELLING Dublin 6 Derek Tynan Architects This project is for a family residence on a mews lane, and is principally concerned with the making of dynamic spaces in somewhat inauspicious surroundings.
	NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE / DIT SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY Temple Bar, Dublin Group 91 Architects / O'Donnell and Tuomey Architects The National Photgraphy Archive and DIT School of Photography are housed in a five-storey-over-basement brick building on the north side of Meeting House Square. The pivotal location of the building within Temple Bar suggested the need for a strong architectural presence. The building is faced in brick, with small-scale repetitive elements forming a consistent visual rhythm, with larger scale elements identifying the special character of its public use. We were interested in the sense of surface and material quality of Dublin brick buildings, a tradition which runs from the early Georgian Henrietta street to Benjamin Woodward's Kildare Street Club.
	WALLPAPER HOUSE Cork de Paor Architects The client runs a large bed-and-breakfast on the north side of Cork city. She currently lives in an assemblage of small rooms with little daylight, developed between the original Victorian house and the terrace around the corner. The project seeks to maintain but dignify the servant and served relationship between guest house and dwelling, to increase the living space and availabe natural light. The internal yard is reduced, with bedroom and bathroom to the ground, kitchen and dining on the first floor, and living and roof terrace to the top; each form a double-cube / single cube relationship on alternate axes, all interconnected by two staircases, establishing a spiral movement through the house.
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A S S E S S O R S

Kenneth Frampton is Ware professor of Architecture at Columbia University. He studied architecture at the AA in London, and has worked as an architect in the UK, Israel, and the US. He has written extensively, and contributed to numerous journals internationally. His publications include: Modern Architecture: A Critical History; Modern Architecture 1851 to 1945; American Masterworks (Rizzoli, 1995); and Studies in Tectonic Culture (MIT Press, 1995).

Micael Hussey graduated from DIT Bolton Street in 1988. He has worked with Architecture Studio, Paris; Hellin Sebbag, Paris; and currently works in Dublin with O'Mahony Pike Architects. He was a contributor to the Tale from Two Cities exhibition (Glasgow, 1994) in collaboration with Kevin Woods. He is a studio Tutor in DIT Bolton Street.

Sam Stephenson studied architecture at the College of Technology, Dublin, and later in France, Italy and Switzerland, before returning to Ireland to commence private practice. He has received awards for the Central Bank Currency Centre [RIAI Gold Medal], Bord na Moactue;na HQ, Fitzwilliam Club, International Airport Hotel and the Institute for Advanced Studies. Current work includes a major extension to St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, and a new hotel in Derry.

David Hughes (b. 1964) graduated from the School of Architecture, University College Dublin in 1987. He worked in Paris from 1987 to 1990 for Agence 'Babel', and in Dublin with Scott Tallon Walker, Newenham, Mulligan & Associates, and Peter Stevens & Associates. He has worked with Iarnród Éireann Architects since 1993, and is currently working on Connolly Station.

Dorothy Cross (b. 1956) graduated with a BA from Leicester Polytechnic in 1977, and with an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1982. She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1993. She shows with the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin. Recent exhibitions include: Arnolfini, Bristol; PPOW. New York; Frith Street Gallery, London; and ArtPace Foundation, Texas. She lives and works in Dublin.

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