Giant’s Causeway Visitors’ Centre
Antrim, Northern Ireland
The Giant’s Causeway lies in Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast World Heritage Site, a landscape of cliffs formed by hexagonal basalt stones, agricultural landscapes and cliffside walks. Utilising the large difference in level across the site, two folds are created in the landscape. One, extending the line of the ridge, accommodates the building. The second, extending the level of the road, screens the car park from view.
The two folds create strong lines in the landscaping, drawing all the man-made interventions together and organising the disparate requirements of the Visitorsʼ Centre into a singular intervention in the landscape.
There is no longer a building and landscape but building becomes landscape and the landscape itself remains spectacular and iconic.
Fact sheet
Client
National Trust
Size
1800m²
Date
2005 (Competition)
Status
Construction
Location
Antrim, Northern Ireland
Collaborators
Structures
Arup
Building Services
Bennett Robertson
QS | PM
Edmond Shipway
Facade Engineering
Dewhurst MacFarlane
Planning
Turley Associates
Civils
White Young Green
Landscape
heneghan peng architects (Concept design) Mitchell + Associates (Implementation)
Exhibition Design
Event
Specialist Lighting
Bartenbach Lichtlabor
Contact
heneghan peng architects
14–16 Lord Edward Street
Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel +353 1 633 9000
Fax +353 1 633 9010
heneghan peng architects
Waldemarstrasse 37a
10999 Berlin, DE
Tel +49 30 755 66 76 35
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