Winner of the UTV Business Eye
Architect of the Year Award 2009
Hamilton Architects in Belfast, Derry and Dublin
Hamilton Architects in Belfast, Derry and DublinContact Hamilton Architects in Ireland

AWARDS

UTV Business Eye Architect of the Year 2009

Ulster Museum, Belfast

  • RICS Community Benefit Award, 2010
  • National Museums & Heritage Permanent Exhibition Award, 2010
  • The Art Fund Prize for Museums & Galleries, 2010

Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

  • UK Man and the Biosphere UNESCO Award 2010 - in recognition of the work carried out in protecting the swift habitat throughout the environmentally sensitive restoration of the Centre
  • William Keown Trust Access Award, 2010

Chinese Community & Resource Centre, Belfast

  • Civic Trust Awards 2010, National Panel Special Recognition

Thompson House Hospital, Lisburn

  • RICS Sustainability Award, Highly Commended, 2007
  • Building Better Healthcare Award, Best Sustainable Design, Highly Commended, 2007

Belmont School Belfast

  • RICS Community Benefit Award, 2006
  • RICS Conservation Commendation Award, 2006
  • RSUA Design Award Commendation, 2006

Learning Resource Centre, SERC, Newtownards

  • RICS Community Benefit Commendation Award, 2006

Hogg & Mitchell Conservation, Derry

  • RSUA Conservation and Design Award, 2001

Visitors and Convention Bureau, Derry

  • RSUA Design Award Commendation, 2000

Greysteel Regeneration Project & Vale Complex

  • RIAI Irish Architecture Regional Award 2000, Exhibited Project

....................................................

Some Current projects

Riddel Hall, Executive Education Centre, Queens University Belfast, £10m
Refurbishment of Riddel Hall and School of Management Facilities to provide a mainstream facility of further education for Queens University.

Templemore Avenue Network Centre, Belfast, £3.6m
Restoration of a B1 listed former school building to create a Community Network Centre.

Craft Village, Derry City, £0.4m
Rejuvenation of a variety of multi-purpose retail outlets.

Crumlin Road Gaol Gatehouse and Administration Buildings, Belfast, £2.5m
Conservation and restoration of the listed Lanyon Gatehouse and Administration buildings, providing offices, staff accommodation and enhanced visitor facilities.

Housing Development at Castlewellan Road, Newcastle, £19.9m
General needs social housing units.

Donkey Riding Therapy Centre, Templepatrick, £0.8m
New centre for children with special needs and disabilities for the Elizabeth Svendsen Trust.

Hamilton House, Belfast, £1.6m
Georgian inspired 4-storey high specification office building in Joy Street in the Linen Conservation Area.

Institute of Technology Carlow, Enhancement and Maintenance Works, €0.6m
Enhancement and maintenance works including courtyard lobby extensions and boundary stone wall.

Specsavers Optical Superstores
Design and project management services for stores in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

 

 

PROJECT LIST

HEALTHCARE

Victoria Pharmaceuticals, Belfast, £7.5m
Four storey medicine manufacturing facility provides specialist sterile and non-sterile medicines for a wide range of patients and is the only facility of its kind in Ireland.

Thompson House Hospital, Lisburn, £4.5m
Refurbishment and extension to brain injuries hospital .

Lisburn Assessment & Resource Centre, £2.6m
Purpose built daycare facility for adults with learning disabilities.

Lagan Valley Hospital, Lisburn, £1m
New Accident & Emergency Department at Lagan Valley Hospital.

Royal Belfast Group of Hospitals
Extensive refurbishment, conversion and maintenance works to provide improved patient and staff facilities and accommodation.

EDUCATION

Riddel Hall, Executive Education Centre, Queens University Belfast, £10m
Refurbishment of Riddel Hall and School of Management Facilities to provide a mainstream facility of further education for Queens University.

Environmental Skills Centre, South Eastern Regional College, Newtownards, £3.6m
The new Centre is a hub for sustainable development and renewable technology and provides engineering laboratories, workshops and ancillary accommodation and offices.

North West Regional College, L’Derry
General refurbishment and cyclical maintenance works at Derry and Strabane campuses.

Learning Resource Centre, South Eastern Regional College, Newtownards, £0.9m
New learning resource centre and administration offices.

St. Columba’s College, Dublin, €5.2m
New classroom and accommodation block.

Sports Stadia & FACILITIES

Limerick Greyhound Stadium & IGB Headquarters, €15m
New flagship greyhound stadium, with a capacity for 2,900 spectators, incorporating kennels building, track and associated car parking. The stadium is strategically linked to the new Headquarter Offices of the Irish Greyhound Board.

Dundalk Horse and Greyhound Stadium & Track, €36m
Ireland’s first floodlit all weather racecourse and Europe’s first combined horse and greyhound racing facility.

Sports Viewing Stands, Institute of Technology, Carlow, €2.4m
Two new seated and covered sports viewing stands for GAA and Rugby including changing facilities, seminar rooms, referee room and treatment room.

Lifford Greyhound Stadium & Track, Co Donegal, €8m
New state of the art 2000 capacity stadium, track and associated greyhound facilities.

Drumbo Park Greyhound Stadium, Lisburn, £3.1m
Fully glazed trackside extension to two-storey stadium.

Cultural & Tourism

Ulster Museum, Belfast, £17.7m
Refurbishment of Northern Ireland’s most prestigious Museum including the creation of a new hall of wonder and orientation atrium at its heart.

Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, £5.5m
Refurbishment and extension of a Grade B1 Listed Building to provide a new multi-purpose community arts centre.

Giants Causeway Visitors Centre, £18.5m
Provision of support services for the new state of the art visitor’s centre.

Tower Museum, Derry, £3.5m
Refurbishment and extension to the Tower Museum to accommodate the Armada exhibition.

Cultra Manor, Holywood, £3.1m
Internal and external refurbishment of the Grade B listed Cultra Manor.

The Gasyard Centre, Derry, £0.3m
Refurbishment of part of the existing building to provide an Arts Production Workshop.

Residential

Springfarm Estate, Antrim, £2m
Refurbishment of residential homes and development of new social housing.

Housing Development at Castlewellan Road, Newcastle, £19.9m
General needs social housing units.

Barnfield Cottages, Derriaghy, £0.9m
New development of 19 detached and semi-detached houses.

Moylena Court, Antrim, £0.8m
Bungalows and communal facilities for adults with mental illness plus residential home for the mentally disabled.

Hogg & Mitchell Conversion, Derry, £2.7m
Conversion of a redundant Grade B+ factory into apartments and retail units; development of new build apartments.

Community

Chinese Community & Resource Centre, Belfast, £1.4m
New purpose built community centre for the Chinese Welfare Association - the first of its type in Northern Ireland.

Youthlink NI, Belfast, £0.8m
Re-adaptation and fit out of existing building for community learning including offices, training, educational and resource facilities.

Donkey Riding Therapy Centre, Templepatrick, £0.8m
New centre for children with special needs and disabilities for the Elizabeth Svendsen Trust.

Greysteel Regeneration Project & Vale Centre, Co Derry, £3m
New community facilities including state of the art sports facilities with multi-purpose sports hall and all weather flood-lit pitches, health & fitness resource centre, educational and childcare facilities, conference facilities and new business start-up units.

Belmont School, Belfast, £1.2m
Restoration and extension of a Grade B+ listed school to provide new modern community uses.

Knock Methodist Church Centre, Belfast, £1.4m
New Church Centre for community use with main hall/auditorium, minor hall, social meeting areas, meeting rooms and offices.

Transport

Passenger Terminal & Maritime Museum, Pier Head, Liverpool, £10.5m
New 3-storey multi-purpose building incorporating Merseytravel’s ferry terminal, Beatles Story museum, café, shop and rooftop restaurant.

Stena Line Terminal V4, Belfast Harbour, £35m
New build passenger terminal and associated buildings
New 3 storey passenger terminal and associated walkways.

Rapid Transit Vehicle Halts for Belfast Rapid Transit System, £55k
Design of RTV Halts for the Belfast Rapid Transit System CITI Route.

Stena-Line Passenger Terminal, Belfast, £12.5m
New 3-storey passenger terminal to accommodate the HSS service, conventional ferries and smaller catamarans.

Commercial

Hamilton House, Belfast, £1.6m
Georgian inspired 4-storey high specification office building in Joy Street in the Linen Conservation Area.

Metal Technology Headquarters, Antrim, £3.4m
Landmark extensions to warehousing and new state of the art offices.

Specsavers Optical Superstores
Provision of design and project management services for multiple stores in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Office Development, Gortrush Business Park, Omagh, £1.9m
Purpose built 2-storey high quality, innovative office development.

 

CONTACT US:
BELFAST: +44 (0)28 9033 4250 - Hamilton House, 3 Joy Street, Belfast BT2 8LE, N. Ireland
L'DERRY: +44 (0)28 7137 0017 - 20 Queen Street, L’Derry, BT48 7EQ, N. Ireland  
Site map | Links
 
Copyright © 2011 Hamilton Architects - All rights reserved

Website Designed by: MCKEE DESIGN