Hometown Architect is an initiative of the Irish Architecture Foundation’s nationwide Reimagine placemaking programme. Through fieldwork projects, Reimagine supports communities across Ireland to partner with architects to co-create and co-design solutions to problems or opportunities they have identified in their locality.
The five town centre regeneration projects selected for development funding through the Hometown Architect initiative are:
- A masterplan solution for a cluster of vacant buildings in Tipperary town;
- A visionary blueprint for Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare that’s rooted in the spa town’s heritage of wellbeing, by Pritzker Prize-winning architect and Lisdoonvarna native Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects, together with the skill-sharing not-for-profit Common Knowledge, co-founded by Harrison Gardner, presenter of the RTÉ television series ‘Build Your Own Home’;
- A pathway for making ‘The Granite City’ of Aughrim, Co Wicklow more accessible for all ages and abilities;
- A whole-community vision for the sustainable development of the historic planned market town of Belmullet, Co Mayo;
- A one-stop shop for bringing the community of Tuam, Co Galway together to address vacancy within the town.
Each of the Hometown Architect projects will receive €10,000 in development funding as well as practical support under the IAF Reimagine placemaking programme.
The projects will run until the end of the year.
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