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ALTO VETRO TOWER WINS MAJOR AWARD
This year's Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design International Architecture Awards, billed as 'the most important barometer for the future direction of new architectural design and thinking today' included two recent residential projects in Dublin - one that emphasises the vertical and one that plays with the horizontal. The buildings in question are Alto Vetro tower on Grand Canal Quay, a spectacular 16-storey glass goliath designed for Treasury Holdings by Shay Cleary Architects and the Elm Park complex on Merrion Road by Bucholz McEvoy Architects for Radora Developments Ltd. The delicately proportioned and beautifully detailed Alto Vetro tower is 16 storey glazed mixed use development. Elm Park is interesting in the use of the site's microclimate for ventilation as the long, narrow buildings are oriented on a north-south axis to take advantage of those westerly winds. The awards are co-presented by the Chicago Anthenaeum and the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies with this year's winners being chosen from hundreds of submissions by an all-Finnish jury. The Athenaeum described this year's award winners as 'a Who's Who in international architecture practice today'. |
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