Join architects Metropolitan Workshop as they present their housing project Annesley Gardens, Dublin, on the occasion of its recent shortlisting for the prestigious EU Mies Awards 2024.

Annesley Gardens transformed a backland site into a residential street of 20 homes. Located in an architectural conservation area, the contemporary architecture successfully integrates into the sensitive context not only in terms of its scale but also in its expression and brickwork detailing influenced by the surrounding Victorian architecture.

The event will consist of a 40-minute presentation followed by a Q&A session. The presentation will explore the housing scheme Annesley Gardens in Ranelagh, including the design process from early concepts to the detail design. The project will also be set within the context of Metropolitan Workshop’s research on low rise high density housing.

The event is free and open to all interested in hearing about the design of housing in Dublin city today.

This event is presented by Metropolitan Workshop with the support of the Irish Architecture Foundation and the Irish Architectural Archive.

This talk is part of the Out & About: Discovering European Architecture series, taking place from March onwards in over 30 European places in which the EU Mies shortlisted works are located.

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Metropolitan Workshop on their practice:

“16 years ago we set out to practice architecture differently. We wanted to make more useful, more beautiful, more inspiring buildings and places, but to do this we knew that we had to find a better process that harnessed the full spectrum of society’s talent. We could see that there needed to be greater recognition of the power of collaboration and creative exchange in the design process and that this needed to change before architecture and urbanism could evolve. Our goal was to take on complex and challenging circumstances and turn them into more virtuous conditions for better outcomes. Our aim was to engage with the public to ensure that projects were better grounded and would succeed more sustainably. As designers we wished to put end users’ needs first, to understand them more fully, and to resolve issues through design rather than wish them away. Put simply, we wanted to establish better, more inclusive processes which would result in better more inclusive places and buildings. Over the past 16 years and we found many others who also think this way.

People make places make people.”

Photo: Annesley Gardens, Dublin. Photo by Ste Murray.