Ranging from a £100,000 house in Belfast to a £75m hospital in Omagh, 21 projects have been shortlisted for the RSUA Design Awards.
Ciarán Fox, Director of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA), commented on the growing appreciation among clients and policy makers for intelligent investment in design quality, to deliver tangible benefits to a project and to society.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 18 May at the Whitla Hall, Queen’s University Belfast. Successful projects will then enter the running to win the Liam McCormick Prize - Northern Ireland’s building of the year award - and will be considered for a UK-wide RIBA National Award in recognition of their architectural excellence, the results of which will be announced in June.
The 21 projects in the running for RSUA Design Awards are:
- Arvalee School and Resource Centre, Omagh by Isherwood + Ellis
- Castle Tower School, Ballymena by Isherwood + Ellis
- Corriewood Private Clinic, Castlewellan by McGurk Architects
- County Down Barn, Newtownards by Micah T Jones Architect
- Main Site Tower and Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen's University Belfast by TODD Architects
- Maison Wedge, Killinchy by BGA Architects Ltd
- New Paediatrics Ward, Craigavon Area Hospital, Craigavon by TODD Architects
- Newry Leisure Centre - Phase 2, Newry by Kennedy FitzGerald Architects
- No 37, Belfast by FAMILY architects designers makers
- Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex by TODD Architects with Hall Black Douglas
- Parkes House, Greenisland by Dickson FitzGerald
- Queen's University Belfast Computer Sciences Building by Kennedy FitzGerald Architects
- Rosemount Mews, Greyabbey by GM Design Associates Limited
- Scrabo Clachan, Newtownards by BGA Architects Ltd
- Sportlann, Belfast by ARdMackel Architects
- St Bronagh's Primary School, Rostrevor by DON architects
- The Junction, Community Peace Building, Dungannon by Hall Black Douglas
- The Weaving Works, Belfast by RMI Architects
- Titanic Hotel Belfast, Belfast by RMI Architects
- Tropical Ravine Restoration, Belfast by Hall Black Douglas
- Union Theological College, Belfast by Alastair Coey Architects
