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.