Dublin's Parlour: Design Competition
Result
Dublin City Council and Point Village Limited recently announced that the winner of Dublin’s Parlour Design Competition is LiD Architecture
Overview
The objective of this competition is to design a new public civic space for Dublin. ‘The Parlour’ will have a strong social cultural and environmental character and have a countrywide profile for holding an intense and varied programme of music and other outdoor events including markets and monster céilís.
| Category | Project Competition / Competition Result |
| Type | International, Project, Open, Single-Stage |
| Genre | Theater |
| Country | Dublin, Ireland |
| RegDeadline | 24 June 2009 GoogleCal iCal |
| 3 July 2009 GoogleCal | |
| Eligibility | Architects, Urban designers, Landscape architects and other disciplines. |
Description
The site is immediately adjacent to the O2 indoor arena which attracts anything from 7,000 to 15,000 people per event on up to 200 days of the year. O2 is a state of the art performance space, creatively adapted from the ‘Point Depot’ an iconic, industrial railway shed, converted for concerts and performance generally. Every major world artist plays there.
Jury
Harry Crosbie CEO, Point Village Ltd.
Dick Gleeson Dublin City Planner, Dublin City Council
John McLaughlin Director of Architecture, Dublin Docklands Development Authority
Kilian Skay Architect, Dublin City Council
Peter McHale Partner, Bruce Shaw Partnership
Denis Byrne, Denis Byrne Architects, RIAI Nominee
Prize
It would be the intention of the promoters to appoint the winning team.
Entry Fee
€121.50
Entries
One A1 size sheet and Elemental Cost Plan
Timetable
Stage 1 Questions Deadline: 22 May 2009
Stage 1 Answers Circulated: 5 June 2009
Stage One Assessment: July 2009
Organizer
Point Village Ltd
Official Website
http://www.riai.ie/?id=7412