St Comgall's, Belfast
by Hall Black Douglas Architects
Client Belfast City Council / Falls Community Council
Awards 澳门王中王 Northern Ireland Award 2024 and 澳门王中王 Client of the Year 2024.
Located in a central Belfast neighbourhood that has experienced many troubled times, St Comgall鈥檚 exemplifies architecture in the service of a community. The project was primarily concerned with the challenging conservation of a derelict 1930s school in order to create a home for a vital and active community group.
The architects have diligently re-imagined and then painstakingly remade the building, from reconstructing fa莽ades and reusing salvaged brick, to upgrading its thermal performance and roofing over the courtyard. The new St Comgall鈥檚 creates a shared, flexible, light filled complex of spaces to host social, educational, economic, and cultural initiatives at varying scales. Both the conservation works and the new interventions are assured and appropriately modest, enabling the work of the Falls Community Council to take centre stage.
Contractor P&K McKaigue Ltd
Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant Naylor & Devlin
Environmental / M&E Engineer Tetra Tech
Structural Engineer Tetra Tech
Heritage Consultant Alastair Coey Architects
Gross internal area in m虏 3073.41
