The Good … and the Ugly

he Terry Pawson-designed Visual Arts Centre in Carlow made the longlist but not the shortlist of six for the Stirling Prize, the UK’s most prestigious architecture award. The prize has often included Irish projects for consideration, such as O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Glucksman Gallery in Cork and Benson + Forsyth’s Millennium Wing of the National Gallery in Dublin. Galleries dominate this year’s shortlist, too, as well as two schools: Neues Museum by David Chipperfield Architects with Julian Harrap Architects; MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts by Zaha Hadid Architects; Christ’s College School by DSDHA; Ashmolean Museum by Rick Mather Architects; Clapham Manor Primary School by dRMM; and Bateman’s Row, London, by Theis + Khan.
The winner will be announced at a dinner on October 2.


TThe entire article appears in the September/October issue of Image Interiors on sale now.