The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) has announced Field, Stonewall, House by Taylor McCarney Architects as the winner of the Public Choice category at the RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2021.

Field, Stonewall, House beat off considerable competition from a shortlist of 39 projects. Entries were received from across Ireland, which included entries from Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Donegal, Galway, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Limerick, Louth, Offaly, Sligo, Wicklow as well as internationally in the UK and the Punjab, India. All of the projects on the shortlist were designed by Registered Architects based in Ireland and completed in 2020.

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Only the second house to ever win the Public Choice Award, the design was conceived as a series of parallel field stone walls, that fit within the rural setting in the West of Ireland. The project considered how such a building could ‘grow’ from the site and in terms of scale, materials, colour, and landscape. Objects in the home’s surrounding landscape, an apple tree, a shed (a childhood memory), and views to the mountain, Coill Chnoc Meadha, are adopted and framed within the house.

Second Place in this year's Public Choice Award went to Bray Primary Care Centre by Henry J Lyons; third place was awarded to Coal Lane House by Graham O'Sullivan in Cabra, Dublin 7 and fourth place went to Irish Stock Exchange by Henry J Lyons at Fosters Place, Dublin 2.

The full list of RIAI Irish Architecture Awards winners will be announced this Friday, 09 July on the RIAI website at 9am.