Giant’s Causeway Visitors’ Centre | Northern Ireland
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 Completed
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, Floor 2
Dublin D02 YC63, Ireland
Tel +353 (0)1 633 9000
Fax +353 1 633 9010
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