UCC Glucksman Gallery
Cork
A new art gallery and restaurant is sited on the main avenue approach to University College Cork between the trees in the river meander landscape. Located within the curtilage of the protected structure of the nineteenth century university quadrangle, the new building is a strategic element in the conservation of the landscape setting of the Lower Grounds and its integration with the College Campus
- European Museum Academy Art Museum Award
- RIAI Triennial Gold Medal shortlist
- Civic Trust Award
- RIBA Stirling Prize finalist
- RIAI Award - Best Public Building
- UK Buildings Services Award Project of the Year
- SEAI Sustainable Energy Award
- RIBA Award
- GAGA Construction Award Hot Dip Galvanising Award
- AAI Award - Special Mention
- American Academy of Arts and Letters 2015 Awards: O’Donnell + Tuomey
Dublin, 29 Oct – 9 Nov 2015
The solidity of the stone base, the openness of the public space on the podium and the form of the timber gallery are three distinct characteristics of the architectural concept.
The Gallery is raised among the trees in an interlocking suite of rooms with selected views up and down the river. Interconnected in plan and section, the gallery rooms provide a variety of exhibition spaces from close control to natural daylight.
The cafe opens towards the west into a central garden between river and escarpment. An outdoor dining terrace provides views of the picturesque gothic College buildings.
The podium is the point of access up to the Gallery and down to the cafe. It emerges from the limestone escarpment like a manmade extension of the natural landscape. Acting as a pier between the main avenue and the river, it is both landscape and building, plinth and pathway.
What is really remarkable about this university art gallery is that the more one looks, the better it gets.
That is the sign of complete assurance and maturity. What most artists do is make simple things complex; great artists make complex things appear simple. This is one of the rare buildings that fits that definition of greatness.
From Stirling Prize citation
Publications:
- Arch Daily, 16.09. 2016, AD Classics: Glucksman Gallery / O’Donnell + Tuomey, Bart Bryant-Mole ↗︎
- AV Monographs, 2016
- Space for Architecture, 2014
- Architecture Ireland, Issue 272, Winter 2014, RIAI Gold Medal, Highly Commended PDF
- Irish Architecture, The RIAI Annual Review, Vol. 4, RIAI, Sandra Andrea O’Connell (Editor)
- Nevertheless, There is This Thing Called Architecture, 2013
- Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette, Taylor & Francis, Fiona McLachlan PDF
- Irish Architecture, The RIAI Annual Review, Vol. 2, RIAI, Sandra Andrea O’Connell (Editor)
- RIBA Journal, May 2011, Handover #1:, Hugh Pearman on O’Donnell + Tuomey, Hugh Pearman PDF
- Basics Architecture 03, Architectural Design, AVA Publishing, Jane Anderson PDF
- Ways of Working, 2010
- Key Contemporary Buildings, Laurence King Publishing, Rob Gregory
- The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, Phaidon
- Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC, 2007
- 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die, The World’s Architectural Masterpieces
- O’Donnell + Tuomey: Selected Works, 2006
- New Irish Architecture 20, AAI Awards 2005, Gandon Editions, John O’Regan (Editor), Nicola Dearey (Editor)
- Architecture 05, The Guide to the RIBA Awards, Merrell PDF
- Space, Architecture for Art, Circa, Gemma Tipton (Editor) PDF
- Architects’ Journal, 6.05 2005, 2005/RIBA Awards
- Architectural Review, No. 1302 2005, Effortless Artistry, Jeremy Till
- Architecture + Urbanism, No. 413 2005
- Irish Examiner, Jul 28 2005, Gallery shortlisted for top architecture award, Emily Beament
- Architecture Magazine USA, December 2005 2005, Life of the Party
- RIBA Journal, 112/10 2005, Making it big time, Stirling Prize, Amanda Baillieu
- The Sunday Times, Mar 27 2005, Seeing the bigger picture, Shane O’Toole
- Daily Telegraph, Oct 15 2005, Stirling value keep rising, Giles Worsley
- Irish Independent, Jul 28 2005, Stirling work puts gallery on design award shortlist, Aine Kerr
- Aug 22 2005, The word made flesh, Jonathan Glancey
- Casabella, No. 730 2005, Pietro Valle
- Architecture Ireland, No 203 2005 PDF
- Architektur + Wettbewerbe, No. 202 2005
- Architecture, Craft and Culture, 2004
- Archaeology of the Air, 2004
- Irish Times Magazine, Oct 9 2004, Amazing Space, Brenda Fitzsimons
- Irish Arts Review, Vol. 21 No. 1 2004, Art House, Gemma Tipton
- The Times, Nov 23 2004, Beauty and the Irish Brute, Tom Dyckhoff
- Oct 29 2004, Celestial Vessel, Shane O’Toole ↗︎
- RIBA Journal, 111/11 2004, It’s a corker, Kester Rattenbury