Cork's 'stealth-bomber' Dean Hotel wins international architecture award

Second design award for Wilson Architecture for its “chalk and cheese” designs on Cork's North Quays

The Dean Hotel next Kent Rail Station has won a major international architecture award for its designers Wilson Architecture.

CORK-based international firm Wilson Architecture is the only Irish 2023 winner of a design award recognising over 100 of the best-designed buildings and landscapes from around the world.

The firm won the 2023 hotel design category for the “stealth-bomber”, all-black wedge-shaped Dean Hotel by Kent Rail Station operated by Press Up Group. It is located on the city’s emerging north quays campus which was earmarked for improved public transport facilities, offices, hotel/hospitality and apartments, with Apple a near corporate occupier on Horgan’s Quay in one of the completed mixed-design elements by BAM/Clarendon Properties.