heneghan peng architects

Giant’s Causeway Visitors’ Centre | Northern Ireland

Antrim, Northern Ireland

The Giant’s Causeway lies in Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast World Heritage Site, a landscape of cliffs formed by hexagonal basalt stones, agricultural landscapes and cliffside walks. Utilising the large difference in level across the site, two folds are created in the landscape. One, extending the line of the ridge, accommodates the building. The second, extending the level of the road, screens the car park from view.

The two folds create strong lines in the landscaping, drawing all the man-made interventions together and organising the disparate requirements of the Visitorsʼ Centre into a singular intervention in the landscape.

There is no longer a building and landscape but building becomes landscape and the landscape itself remains spectacular and iconic.

Fact sheet

Client: National Trust

Size: 1800m²

Date: 2005 (Competition)

Status: Completed

Location: Antrim, Northern Ireland

Collaborators:

Structures: Arup

Building Services: Bennett Robertson

QS | PM: Edmond Shipway

Facade Engineering: Dewhurst MacFarlane

Planning: Turley Associates

Civils: White Young Green

Landscape: heneghan peng architects (Concept design) Mitchell + Associates (Implementation)

Exhibition Design: Event

Specialist Lighting: Bartenbach LichtLabor

Dublin office:

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Dublin D02 YC63, Ireland

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