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Fingal County Hall
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Fingal County Hall
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Fingal County Hall
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Fingal County Hall
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Fingal County Hall
Fingal County Hall
Bucholz McEvoy Architects. Dublin, Ireland
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Name of work in English
Fingal County Hall
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Name of work in original language
Fingal County Hall
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2001
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Work Location
Dublin, Ireland
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Studio
Bucholz McEvoy Architects
EUmies Awards 2001 Nominees
Fingal County Hall is an open and transparent expression of local government, providing a sustainable, low-energy working environment for 450 Council employees.
Program
Government & Civic
Total gross floor
11.244 m²
Completion
2000
An existing crescent of tall Holm Oak trees and a 150yearold Himalayan Cedar along the western edge of the site were integrated into our design and helped to establish a civic scale befitting that of a County Hall. The trees together with the building give form to a new civic space, the 'public foyer' of the County Hall which is part internal, part external. Visitors arrive in a greenfloored 'piazza' colonnaded with the trunks of Holm Oaks and roofed with their foliage. The fivestorey high atrium, defining the edge of the space is the meeting point of public and private, a 'vertical main street', extending in an open gesture towards the community.
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