Architecture Factory award

It’s been a good week for architecture faculties — following the first increase in CAO points in five years.

CIT’s Architecture department also celebrated a design award for it’s new Architecture Factory, above. The makeover of the former Tyco premises, which the Institute acquired some years ago, has won a Platinum A design award in Italy. The design team, headed by Marc Ó Riain, accepted the award from the president of the International Society of Designers, in Lake Como.

The open-plan, factory building was given a human scale by dropping in six, lime-green shipping containers as intimate office spaces within the volume of the building.

The design, created by CIT lecturer Ó Riain, was developed and delivered by project architects, RKD.

The project won the Irish Design Grand Prix last November, and carries onto the World Festival of Architecture and Interiors, in October.

Details: architecture.cit.ie