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Eyre Square Galway Receives Irish Landscape Institute Design Award

15th June 2007

The biennial Irish Landscape Institute Awards were held on the 8th of June 2007.

Sophia Meeres, Director of landscape architecture at University College Dublin, and one of the adjudicators evaluated the winning Eyre Square, designed by Mitchell + associates:

“Eyre Square in Galway obviously responds to a complex brief. It is a democratic design incorporating the requirements of many different users in polyvalent spaces. Its success might be judged by the fact that it is so well used. Eyre Sq was chosen over other urban projects in this category because of its contribution to city life”

The Irish Landscape Institute represents Landscape Architects and forms part of the Urban Forum along with architects, engineers, chartered surveyors and planning professionals.

Mitchell + associates were also awarded for their landscape design at Backweston Laboratories, west of Dublin.

Winners in other categories included Dermot Foley Landscape Architects for Riverside II Courtyard, a small but atmospherically complex space on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay. Murray and Associates won commendations for Fashion City in the M50 Business Park and Roscommon Town Park, a new public park built on industrial wasteland. Mitchell + associates received a commendation for the series of landscapes at Carton Hotel within the 18th century Carton Demesne.

Cunanne Stratton Renyolds won in the Landscape Planning Category for Waterway Corridor Study 2006. The President’s Award was given to Scott Wilson for a new promenade at Newcastle, Co. Down. Dominic Comerford won the student prize for a project addressing river frontage at Carrick on Shannon.

Photo: Arjen Veldt Photography