Lifetime Lab wins prestigious Architectural Award

The Lifetime Lab project was awarded a prestigious architectural award, the Opus ‘Building of the Year Awards’, in Dublin on Tuesday 1st of November 2005. Cork based Architects, Jack Coughlan Associates and Contractors John F. Supple Ltd. won an award in the Heritage category for their conservation and adaptation of the complex of nineteenth-century buildings and historic precinct, which forms the former Municipal Cork City Waterworks. The annual Architectural & Construction awards were held in the Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge and were attended by members of the Cork City Council and the project team.

The Opus ‘Building of the Year Awards’ concept was further developed last year to acknowledge the symbiotic relationship between design and construction. Over 140 projects were submitted to this years’ awards. The judging criteria were rigorously applied, with particular emphasis on aesthetic design, build quality, functionality and sustainability. It was on these criteria that the Lifetime Lab clearly deserved this award. “Cork City Council deserves full credit for their imagination as clients and design-brief makers”, commented the judging panel.

Project Team L to R; Brian O’Herlihy, J.F. Supples. John Walsh, Cork City Council, Jack Coughlan, JCA, Alan Lehane, J.F. Supples, Bill O’Neill, PM, Brent Pope, RTE pundit and former NZ All-Black, Niall Macken, JCA,. Jessie Castle-Metliski, JCA, and John Twomey, Cork City Council.