Public Choice Award
Shortlisted Project:
Landscape Room
Project: Landscape Room
Architect: LID Architecture
The project is located in Sligo, perched above Glencar Lake to the south and surrounded by the limestone cliffs and tabletops of Benbulbin Mountain to the north. The existing limestone cottage had a defensive relationship to this dramatic landscape, which was experienced only through the small apertures in thick limestone walls. A strategy was sought to retain the protective qualities of the existing cottage but mediate between the intimacy of its spaces and the sublime scale of the greater landscape. This took the form of a “Landscape Room”, combining the qualities and expectations of internal and external spaces.
