Context

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Architects: ABK Architects

Location: Roscommon, Ireland

Design Team: Criona Nangle, (Project Architect) John Parker (Director), Leonardo Ponce, Cliona Rice.

Area: 6600.0 sqm

Photographs: Christian Richters

Client: Roscommon County Council

Conservation Architects: ABK Architects

Project Manager: PM Group

Civil And Structural Engineers: Punch Consulting Engineers

Environmental Consultants: Homan O?Brien Associates

Breeam Consultant: BDP

Cost Consultants: AECOM, Galway

Landscape Architects: Hyland Edgar Driver
Fire Consultants: Ahearne Fire Engineering Consultants

Main Contractor: Stewart Ltd

Value: ?12.8 million

Ber Rating: A3

Breeam Accreditation: Excellent

© Christian Richters

From the architect. ContextThe design looks to work with the existing urban grain of the Town of Roscommon in order to create a coherent vision for the public realm.The principle institutions of Roscommon Town, -Church and Court- historically somewhat dislocated from the town centre, are located in pocket of land that sits to the west of Market Square.

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It is this quarter, once a precinct of the C19th criminal ...