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The project involved alterations and adaptive reuse of two existing underutilised buildings to provide flexible teaching / seminar rooms, break-out spaces, reception, dining rooms, café, and offices, along with landscape redesign to improve connectivity to the campus. As part of the works, a new entrance and management office extension was provided for the adjacent student residences. If you’re considering a project

The Student Centre is the new epicentre of social, creative and sporting activity in UCD. The Student Centre stands at the easternmost boundary of UCD’s covered pedestrian mall, adjacent to the Water Tower. The building has been carefully arranged so as to embed itself into the existing pedestrian network and introduce a large indoor public space to the campus. Conceived as a contemporary rereading of the original 19

The Block C lecture theatre refurbishment is a continuation of a series of re-use and refurbishment projects completed by FKP at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. The evolution and growth of this globally recognised business school, along with the presence of a number of protected structures, requires a strategy of creatively injecting new purpose into the existing campus buildings. The re-developm

The Club House is UCD’s great social condenser. It offers a place for all the University’s clubs and societies to come together in a sumptuous and informal social venue. The Club House is organised over two floors in the original Student Centre building: the large sports bar on the ground level and the more formal Club House upstairs. An aerial walkway over Bridge Street links the bar to the Gallery Walk

Following our interior fit-out of the Global Lounge, as a new social space for international students and societies, along with the adjoining Gleeson Zen Garden at the lower ground level, Fitzgerald Kavanagh + Partners were requested to develop proposals for a contemporary international food court space at the first floor level of the building to better serve the current diversity with the UCD student and staff popul

With students from more than 120 countries studying at UCD, the Global Lounge is conceived as the confluence of an especially rich variety of interests, beliefs and ideas. We built the Global Lounge on Irish traditions of hospitality and adaptability. Open plans, individual furniture and a variety of spaces from large to small   empower new students with a choice of spaces to call their own. Students can use a cuttin

FKP’s entry for the James Joyce Internation exhibition centre was in the final 4 schemes exhibited for this 2012 E.U. advertised panel selection competition. The Greek myth of hero Daedalus and Icarus is a structuring element of our design concept as in James Joyce’s, “A Portrait of the Artist as a young man”.  Unlike the novel our design is simple, stripped of complex themes.  Daedalus was an architect and inv

The Gateway Project will establish an iconic signature for UCD with a campus development which displays architectual excellence and environmental sustainability. Fitzgerald Kavanagh + Partners in association with Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart was the only Irish firm included in a shortlist invited to prepare design proposals. FKP was one of the final three firms in consideration, but ultimately the comission was aw

FKP Architecture was asked to restore Belfield House, which was originally built in 1801 for the La Touche banking family, and its neighbouring stables. The project called for the conservation of the original mansion and a sensitive contemporary intervention next to it. The original character and fine plasterwork of Belfield House were restored to provide research, lecture and reception facilities for the Clinton Ins

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