丨爱尔兰科克丨O’Donnell + Tuomey

UCC Glucksman Gallery

Cork, Ireland

A new art gallery and restaurant is sited on the main avenue approach to University College Cork between the trees in the river meander landscape. Located within the curtilage of the protected structure of the nineteenth century university quadrangle, the new building is a strategic element in the conservation of the landscape setting of the Lower Grounds and its integration with the College Campus

Area: 2,300m2

Address: University College, Cork

Client: University College Cork

GPS: 51.8947° N, 8.4903° W

End Year: 2005

Category: Cultural, Exhibition, Education, Museum / Gallery, Public, University, Competition, Winner, Completed

Awards:

European Museum Academy Art Museum Award

RIAI Triennial Gold Medal, shortlist

Civic Trust Award

RIBA Stirling Prize, finalist

RIAI Award - Best Public Building

SEAI Sustainable Energy Award

UK Buildings Services Award, Project of the Year

RIBA Award

GAGA Construction Award

Hot Dip Galvanising Award

AAI Award - Special Mention

Exhibitions: American Academy of Arts and Letters 2015 Awards: O’Donnell + Tuomey, Dublin, 29 Oct – 9 Nov 2015

Related Media:

Material Matters podcast

Casabella Lecture, 01.12.2020

Rencontre avec O’Donnell + Tuomey, 06.11.2019

RTE Radio 1: The Business – Richard Curran, 2015

The solidity of the stone base, the openness of the public space on the podium and the form of the timber gallery are three distinct characteristics of the architectural concept.

The Gallery is raised among the trees in an interlocking suite of rooms with selected views up and down the river. Interconnected in plan and section, the gallery rooms provide a variety of exhibition spaces from close control to natural daylight.

The cafe opens towards the west into a central garden between river and escarpment. An outdoor dining terrace provides views of the picturesque gothic College buildings.

The podium is the point of access up to the Gallery and down to the cafe. It emerges from the limestone escarpment like a manmade extension of the natural landscape. Acting as a pier between the main avenue and the river, it is both landscape and building, plinth and pathway.

What is really remarkable about this university art gallery is that the more one looks, the better it gets.

That is the sign of complete assurance and maturity. What most artists do is make simple things complex; great artists make complex things appear simple. This is one of the rare buildings that fits that definition of greatness.

From Stirling Prize citation

Publications:

Arch Daily, 16.09. 2016, AD Classics: Glucksman Gallery / O’Donnell + Tuomey, Bart Bryant-Mole

AV Monographs, 2016

Irish Architecture, The RIAI Annual Review, Vol. 4, RIAI, Sandra Andrea O’Connell (Editor)

Architecture Ireland, Issue 272, Winter 2014, RIAI Gold Medal, Highly Commended

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Space for Architecture, 2014

Nevertheless, There is This Thing Called Architecture, 2013

Irish Architecture, The RIAI Annual Review, Vol. 2, RIAI, Sandra Andrea O’Connell (Editor)

Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette, Taylor & Francis, Fiona McLachlan

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RIBA Journal, May 2011, Handover #1: Hugh Pearman on O’Donnell + Tuomey, Hugh Pearman

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Basics Architecture 03, Architectural Design, AVA Publishing, Jane Anderson

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Ways of Working, 2010

The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, Phaidon

Key Contemporary Buildings, Laurence King Publishing, Rob Gregory

1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die, The World’s Architectural Masterpieces

Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC, 2007

O’Donnell + Tuomey: Selected Works, 2006

New Irish Architecture 20, AAI Awards 2005, Gandon Editions, John O’Regan (Editor), Nicola Dearey (Editor)

Architecture 05, The Guide to the RIBA Awards, Merrell

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Architektur + Wettbewerbe, No. 202 2005

Architecture Ireland, No 203 2005

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Casabella, No. 730 2005, Pietro Valle

Aug 22 2005, The word made flesh, Jonathan Glancey

Irish Independent, Jul 28 2005, Stirling work puts gallery on design award shortlist, Aine Kerr

Daily Telegraph, Oct 15 2005, Stirling value keep rising, Giles Worsley

The Sunday Times, Mar 27 2005, Seeing the bigger picture, Shane O’Toole

RIBA Journal, 112/10 2005, Making it big time, Stirling Prize, Amanda Baillieu

Architecture Magazine USA, December 2005 2005, Life of the Party

Irish Examiner, Jul 28 2005, Gallery shortlisted for top architecture award, Emily Beament

Architecture + Urbanism, No. 413 2005

Architectural Review, No. 1302 2005, Effortless Artistry, Jeremy Till

Architects’ Journal, 6.05 2005, 2005/RIBA Awards

Space, Architecture for Art, Circa, Gemma Tipton (Editor)

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RIBA Journal, 111/11 2004, It’s a corker, Kester Rattenbury

Oct 29 2004, Celestial Vessel, Shane O’Toole

The Times, Nov 23 2004, Beauty and the Irish Brute, Tom Dyckhoff

Irish Arts Review, Vol. 21 No. 1 2004, Art House, Gemma Tipton

Irish Times Magazine, Oct 9 2004

, Amazing Space, Brenda Fitzsimons

Archaeology of the Air, 2004