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News Release from: Ibstock Brick | Subject: Best Export at the 2003 BDA Awards
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 March 2004
Ibstock Brick Wins Award For Independent
Living
The first housing and training pilot project in the Irish Republic, St Catharine's Foyer and Community Sports Centre in Dublin, has won the award for Best Export at the 2003 BDA Awards.
Employing Ibstock Colonsey Red Rustic, Red Smooth and Red Wirecut bricks, architects Brady and Mallalieu created an innovative design with contrasts in texture and form The "foyer" will provide accommodation and training for fifty 18-25 year olds, giving them a stepping-stone to independent living
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The architects chose brick for the building as a familiar, solid and secure natural material allowing flexibility for innovation in the design.
This is clearly demonstrated in the drum entrance, grid patterning and textured brick panels.
On the entrance drum, stone from the recently demolished Player Wills factory was included as a remnant of its past, with vertical brick feature areas above and the grid like pattern around the top.
The entrance is accessed through a shared circular drum courtyard and the building provides eight cluster groups of six study bedrooms with shared facilities, communal areas and classrooms on the first floor.
With the south-facing courtyard, one of the principle ideas was to provide an area for maximum social integration to give residents a real sense of homeliness and ownership.
The first project of its kind, St Catharine's Foyer is also the largest public space created in this part of Dublin in recent years.
The project will be officially opened by President Mary McAleese on 4th March 2004.
Bowen Construction Ltd was the main and brickwork contractor.
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