Architectural awards go to four provinces

IT was honours even for the four provinces last night at the RIAI’s 2006 Irish Architecture Awards when Environment Minister Dick Roche presented the four main prizes to projects in Cork, Galway, Belfast and Kildare.

Cork’s big winner was the Lifetime Labs project in the site of the old waterworks on the Lee Road, while The Eye Cinema in Galway, Áras Chill Dara, in Naas, Co Kildare; and the Falls Leisure Centre in Belfast picked up the three other main prizes.

There were 12 other awards handed out to national and international entries including one for the new development at Cork University Hospital; Unicorn Theatre, London; and the Canadian War Museum, in Ottawa, Canada.