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Building for the Arts This is the position BUILDING FOR THE ARTS This is the position This is the position for a spot UV Varnish CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF LOTTERY FUNDING This is the position for a spot UV Varnish for a spot UV Varnish for a spot UV Varnish ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND MACNEICE10 HOUSE 77 MALONE ROAD BELFAST BT9 6AQ TELEPHONE: 028 9038 5200 WWW.ARTSCOUNCIL-NI.ORG 10 THE INTERNAL SPACES OF THE BUILDING COMBINE NATURAL “MATERIALS IN A STYLISH, SPACIOUS SITUATION … ITS LOCATION IS BUILDING FOR THE ARTS SIMILARLY IMPRESSIVE, STANDING ON A STEEP SITE BESIDE THE OLD CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF LOTTERY FUNDING CITY WALLS. THE BUILDING COMPLEMENTS THE EXISTING SKYLINE … CONTENTS THE SIZE AND PLAN OF THE INTERIOR SPACE SUGGESTS A CONTINUATION OF THE RAMBLING STREET PATTERNS OF DERRY. Foreword 03 CIVIC TRUST AWARDS JUDGES OF THE MILLENNIUM FORUM, 2003 ” Introduction 05 Overview 06 Selected Projects: Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Armagh 08 THIS IS A BRAVE MODERNIST BUILDING LIKE Burnavon Arts and Cultural Centre, Cookstown 12 “NO OTHER IN NORTHERN IRELAND. Verbal Arts Centre, Derry City 16 CIVIC TRUST AWARDS JUDGES OF ” Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown 20 THE MARKET PLACE THEATRE & ARTS CENTRE, 2001 Island Arts Centre, Lisburn 24 Millennium Forum, Derry City 28 Flowerfield Arts Centre, Porstewart 32 Future Projects 36 THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT, ARCHITECT AND CLIENT HAVE WORKED “TOGETHER TO ESTABLISH A NARRATIVE THREAD WHICH PROGRESSES Appendix 38 Summary of Arts Council Architecture and Built Environment Policy FROM DARK TO LIGHT, RISING THROUGH THE LEVELS OF THE BUILDING TO REVEAL THE EXPRESSIVE RANGE OF THE VERBAL ARTS. Acknowledgements 40 DAVID EVANS ON THE VERBAL ARTS CENTRE, PERSPECTIVE, MAY/JUNE” 2000 celebrating 10 years of lottery funding FOREWORD NATIONAL LOTTERY FUNDING Perhaps the most immediately obvious and sound applications that have emerged over the HAS HAD A TRANSFORMATIVE arguably longest-lasting transformations are course of the decade. evidenced in the capital projects which have EFFECT ON THE DELIVERY OF been funded by the Arts Council of Northern As architecture is the most pervasive of all art THE ARTS THROUGHOUT Ireland through the Lottery, as celebrated here forms (the ‘mother of the arts’ as Frank Lloyd NORTHERN IRELAND IN THE in this publication. These new arts buildings Wright put it), it is the Arts Council’s aim to and major refurbishments of buildings have ensure that these capital projects are of the LAST TEN YEARS, ENABLING A brought and will bring about fresh possibilities highest design quality – aesthetically pleasing HOST OF ADDITIONAL PROJECTS for the delivery of a range of dynamic arts and fit-for-function structures which enhance TO TAKE PLACE AND IMPORTANT activities right across the region. and improve the built environment; the promotion of design quality is, after all, an ASSETS TO BE ACQUIRED. Since 1995, the Arts Council has made important part of the Arts Council’s remit. National Lottery awards to capital building Mervyn Black’s introduction and Paul Harron’s projects totalling £27,462,129. This vital overview outline how these capital projects injection of funds has been strategically have provided significant competitive directed so that the desire to provide a opportunities for architects both from and dedicated arts facility within a radius of 20 wanting to work in Northern Ireland, and the miles of every person in Northern Ireland is result is a number of exemplary buildings. not a lofty ambition but will shortly be a Space does not permit us to cover every reality. The Arts Council has also sought to be project in detail, but we hope you will enjoy responsive to innovative and economically this short selection. building ROISÍN MCDONOUGH Opposite: The front of the new wing of the Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart, is elegantly shaded by trees; the wooded setting is referenced on the timber detailing. CHIEF EXECUTIVE for the ARTS COUNCIL OF arts NORTHERN IRELAND 03 celebrating 10 years of lottery funding INTRODUCTION THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ULSTER The Arts Council has successfully directed competition. Competitions can play a vital role substantial capital cost grants to several in the production of great projects – they push ARCHITECTS (RSUA) IS PLEASED significant architectural projects in Northern architects to generate innovative solutions to TO SUPPORT THE ARTS COUNCIL Ireland. In addition to the positive contribution architectural problems and allow younger OF NORTHERN IRELAND IN to the architectural quality of their respective firms to gain experience (if not full CELEBRATING TEN YEARS AS THE towns and cities, many of these buildings have commissions) in the early design stages of created greater potential for the creation and major projects. The RSUA has been pleased to BODY WHICH HOLDS dissemination of the arts within Northern act as co-ordinator for many of these RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE Ireland. competitions and has enjoyed a close working DISTRIBUTION OF NATIONAL relationship with the Arts Council. The Arts Council-funded projects include the LOTTERY FUNDS FOR THE ARTS award-winning Market Place Theatre in In September 2004, the RSUA and Belfast City IN NORTHERN IRELAND. Armagh by Glenn Howells Architects, the Council celebrated the opening of PLACE, a Verbal Arts Centre in Londonderry by Hall new architecture and built environment centre Black Douglas, the Millennium Forum in based in Fountain Street in Belfast’s city Londonderry by HMD Architects Ltd, and the centre. PLACE, which aspires to improve the Flowerfield Arts Centre in Portstewart by quality of the built environment in Northern Consarc Design Group Ltd. Currently, there are Ireland, has also received considerable support several major buildings in development or and funding from the Arts Council. We are construction stages which have received Arts deeply obliged to the Arts Council for its Council backing as well, including the Omagh support and partnership in the promotion of Arts Centre by Kennedy Fitzgerald and the design quality which will be further enabled Grand Opera House renovation by the Arts through PLACE. Team of RHWL Architects. None of these notable building projects could have been The Arts Council deserves hearty conceived without this support. congratulations for its ten years of hard work and support of architecture, the built It is important that the architects for Arts environment and the arts. We look forward to Council-funded projects are found through the next decade. building MERVYN BLACK Opposite: Drawing of the north elevation of the Verbal Arts Centre, Derry City, indicating the renovations carried out by Hall Black Douglas Architects. PRESIDENT for the ROYAL SOCIETY OF arts ULSTER ARCHITECTS 05 building for the arts celebrating 10 years of lottery funding BUILDING FOR THE ARTS AN OVERVIEW OF PROJECTS BUILT BETWEEN 1994 AND 2004 SINCE 1994, THE ARTS COUNCIL Three more major projects are in receipt of Several of the buildings, for example, have procurement requirements. Design teams and The Arts Council has sought to ensure that funding and in the process of current made strong architectural statements and construction service providers are appointed these new arts facilities are primarily fit for OF NORTHERN IRELAND HAS development, which are highlighted in the been noted in national awards for doing so – through open and widely advertised tendering, purpose but equally that they are inspirational THROUGH NATIONAL LOTTERY ‘Future and Other Projects’ section of this the Market Place Theatre in Armagh (Civic and design teams have been appointed and visionary buildings which are meaningful RESOURCES BEEN A KEY book. This publication aims to provide a visual Trust Centre Vision Award 2001 and competitively (selected on the basis of the and beneficial spaces. They add significantly to PARTNER WITH A VARIETY OF snapshot of a range of these buildings from nomination for the Stirling Prize amongst design quality of their proposals), and, where Northern Ireland’s architectural portfolio and across the region – seven major projects have other plaudits), as well as the Verbal Arts the commission has been of a sufficient scale, embellish the built environment. COMMISSIONING BODIES – been highlighted and are presented in Centre (Civic Trust Award 2001 and RIAI through architectural competition. RANGING FROM LOCAL chronological order of award made. Regional Award 2001) and Millennium Forum BIBLIOGRAPHY (Civic Trust Award 2003 and RICS Award for While recognising architecture as an artform in Architectural Competitions: A Handbook for Promoters AUTHORITIES TO INDIVIDUAL (Department of the Environment and Department of By happy co-incidence, the Arts Council (as the Excellence 2003) which are both in Derry City. itself, the Council has also placed a strong National Heritage, 1996) ARTS ORGANISATIONS – IN THE result of the Clive Priestley Review of 1992/3) emphasis and requirement on the involvement of CREATION AND LARGE-SCALE was given the formal remit to promote The Council’s ‘best practice’ approach has visual artists, craftspeople and artists from other Arts Facilities: Preliminary Guidance (Voluntary Arts REFURBISHMENT OF EIGHT architecture and design quality simultaneously required applicants to go through a rigorous disciplines in the creation of capital arts projects. Network, 1994) with the opportunity to distribute the first staged application process of feasibility and Arts spaces should involve inter-disciplinary Better Public Buildings: A Proud Legacy for the Future MAJOR MULTI-USE
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