Every day this week we are highlighting the best residential nominees for this year's Irish Architect Awards in the RIAI People's Choice Awards. Today we look at another Dublin 6 extension to a traditional house which strikes a bargain between traditional original and brutalist new.
Another tasteful extension in Dublin 6, this time from the futurist Gottstein Architects who attempted a combination of traditional Dublin house and an ultra-modern design in this protected red brick end-terrace in Rathmines.
Straight lines of laid concrete and plain brickwork have a certain style. Source: architectureawards.ieHuge timber-framed picture windows open up the living areas to the garden… Source: architectureawards.ieWhile the central courtyard has allowed extra light into the kitchen. Source: architectureawards.ieBut despite all the the glass and openings, the 2 feet of concrete makes us feel like we are in a bunker… Source: architectureawards.ieAnd we can’t help thinking we love the traditional parquet floor and turned stair banister most of all! Source: architectureawards.ie
Vote for your favourite Architecture Award
Vote for your favourite for this year’s RIAI Public Choice Award at the Irish Architecture Awards 2014 – go to www.architectureawards.ie to cast your vote or check out all the other residential nominees here…
