As the country emerges from lockdown, the public spaces of what, not so long ago, was an urban no-go zone are the very picture of urban regeneration. Deyan Sudjic gives his verdict on what’s been achieved and what’s been lost.
Building, landscape and civic infrastructure: O’Donnell + Tuomey’s gallery at University College Cork was designed to sit among the trees rather than simply occupy them. Twenty years on, The Glucksman Gallery has aged just as its designers intended, embedding itself into its landscape.
At Belfast’s Arches Health & Wellbeing Centre, it is not only the durability of its architecture that has stood the test of time, but the continued relevance of the new model of care it was designed to support.
