Louise Cotter visits the Student Hub at University College Cork, winner in the Adaptation and Re-use category in this year’s Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland Awards.
T he hub at University College Cork was long envisaged as a central location for student services on the campus and finally opened its doors in January 2020. The project brings new life to the venerable Windle Building, once the medical school, which has been surgically rejuvenated by architects O’Donnell and Tuomey. If a university campus may be considered as a microcosm of the city, then the transformation of the Windle Building is representative of a mature phase of urban development on the 175-year-old site, where the focus is on adaptation and reuse underpinned by a resilient masterplan.
Peter Somerville-Large recounts the history of the National Museum of Ireland’s significant ethnographic collection, last displayed over thirty years ago
Eileen Black recounts the life and work of Post-Impressionist painter, Georgina Moutray Kyle
