12 THE IRISH TIMES Residential Property. Property Online: myhome.ie Thursday, October 2, 2008 Architecture Calm and contemporary yet family friendly

EMMA CULLINAN This Belfast home, designed by the architect who lives in it, is up for the prestigious Manser Medal from the RIBA

BELFAST house designed by an architect for his own family is on the shortlist A for the RIBA Manser Medal (see panel). The house, which was designed by Kieran McGonigle, apartner in Belfast architects Twenty Two Over Seven, has already picked up an RIBA award and an RSUA (Royal Society of Ulster Architects) gong (along with the associated Liam McCormick prize). Northern houses have had a good run in the Manser shortlist end of the long house (whose recently with homes in Cultra, Co shape was dictated by the site); a Down, by Hackett +Hall concrete pergola extending architects and Randalstown, Co beyond this; aneat –but chic – Antrim, by Alan Jones Architects kitchen where others may have being up for it last year. gone for copious cabinetry; and Twenty Two Over Seven is in deep window reveals of 40cm in good company in the 2008 the 56cm thick gables, designed to Manser shortlist, which comprises recall traditional Irish cottages. houses by Richard Rogers’s new These cleverly restrict diagonal practice Rogers Stirk Harbour views into the main bedroom at and Partners; aCambridge Ahouse in Belfast designed by architect Kieran McGonigle for his own family is on the shortlist for atop award. It is divided into a the back of the house –only housing scheme (that is also on family side and aformal end. All of the rooms face south, onto aseries of courtyards revealing areveal rather than a the Stirling prize shortlist) by an bedroom wall. architectural team including The house has been built floor has been split into afamily Neighbours are in arow of well-established Feilden Clegg sideways relative to the house in side and formal end, reached beautiful period redbricks sitting Bradley; aswanky apartment in front of it (and the road) and what Irish judges of Stirling Prize along awide, tall corridor that to one side, with regimented Notting Hill by Gianni Botsford first greets you is aserene white runs perpendicular to the front chimneys marching into the Architects; and ahouse by Simon gable end which, with its pitched THIS ISLAND is well justice centre in Manchester door. distance. (And ahole in the hedge Conder, who is also working on a roof, offers an outline we innately represented in the UK’s by Denton Corker Marshall; a The house is one room deep wide oak floors, inbuilt, low-lying and where the dark-stained allows children to visit each housing project in China with associate with atypical house. If a biggest architectural award, station in Austria by Zaha with its sparsely windowed back shelving/seating made from local hardwood framing the glass walls other). Herzog and de Meuron. child were asked to draw ahouse, the Stirling Prize, run by the Hadid Architects; the London to the north, against weather and Mourne granite, is at the opposite could have been plain fat planes, Below the bedroom window is a McGonigle never planned to this would be the result, except RIBA (Royal Institute of British Royal Festival Hall revamp by neighbours requiring privacy, end of the long house to the they are stepped with the uprights flat roof in standing-seam lead, design and build his own home that the offset, upscaled, low and Architects). Allies and Morrison; aschool while the house opens out to the diningroom/kitchen and playroom expressed, to look like supporting whose standing seams are wider but when he was househunting for high windows here indicate that Two of this year’s judges in London by Allford Hall south to embrace any sun and a which sits out in the garden. columns (the stepping feeling like and more rounded than standard: his growing family, he found it thought has gone into the design, come from these shores: Monaghan Morris and a strip of wasteland (which All of the ground floor rooms anod to Dutch architect Gerrit “When you have acraftsman on difficult to find something suitable personal needs have been Shelly McNamara of Grafton Feilden Clegg Bradley/Alison McGonigle plans to turn into a spill onto the long, thin garden Rietveld). the building team –aswedid – in the neighbourhood to the addressed and convention has Architects and garden Brooks Architects/Macreanor woodland with the agreement of which is aseries of separate Being his own client meant that you should use them,” says south-east of Belfast city that he been played with. designer Diarmuid Gavin, who Lavington housing scheme in the school that owns it). courtyard spaces, defined by McGonigle could do these things McGonigle. lived in and liked. Clues as to the location of the was drafted in after TV Cambridge. The pivot between family and planting, overhanging structures without delay or discussion. “You The main roof is in slate, and Then he and his wife Rachel front door are given by the site of presenter Lauren Laverne At the RIBA Stirling Prize formal is, quite appropriately, a and semi-walls, with the formal don’t have to talk through ideas.” those two roof materials express saw asite for sale in someone’s apassageway to the right of the pulled out due to clashing dinner in Liverpool on October flexi-space which is usually a area sitting beside the formal He visited the site about three this house’s combination of back garden and, despite its gable end. Once you set off schedules. 11th the Manser Medal, for a study but turns into abedroom room and the dining area outside times aweek, and completed the vernacular and new. Having limitations, realised that this towards the front door, adark Their tough task is to residential project, will also when their guest in awheelchair the kitchen. 232sq m(2,500sq ft) house on a slotted in between period houses, would enable the couple to build stained wood pergola lines the choose awinner from a be awarded and the above visits (with wide doors and The house is filled with such strict budget –of£185,000 this home represents apolite new something that suited them and passageway, providing an eventful station in Amsterdam by house, in Belfast, is on the generous halls allowing for the supplements to standard: where (¤235,000). neighbour whose form fits in with those in their extended family, arrival that is enhanced by a Grimshaw and Aarcadis; a shortlist. delivery of ahospital bed). there could have been one long Other distinctive details include local customs and yet which hides including awheelchair user. mighty front door. The ground The formal sittingroom, with outdoor space, there is aseries; having the playroom offset at the acreative and open soul. InteriorsExteriors

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