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Think Tank

• Skibbereen, Ireland

  “This is, at once, a practical structure and a building loaded almost weightlessly with a cultural resonance that takes us back to the certainties of Ancient Greek architecture, and, by extension to an Arcadian idyll.”

  Jonathan Glancey

• I wanted a building that felt innocent - like a child’s diagram of a house.

  A great overhanging roof slung over a primitive structure of beam and post, its open sides enclosed by a protective gossamer membrane of glass.

• “There is an immaculate correctness in the way that the construction has been designed and carried out; simplicity is the priority here, and the interplay between the language of the materials creates a rich complex world.”

  WATERFRONT HOMES, Loft Publications, 2000

• “It’s just a hut on a river, a place of concentration, restfulness and solitude, a statement from a pristine dogma, a dream come true, also a boathouse and stables, even a Japanese pavilion. In other words, a modern incarnation of man’s archetypical shelter.”

  MD, July 2000

• “Gumuchdjian's sensitivity to context and purpose, his feeling for materials and attention to detail has transformed what could have been a modest riverside retreat into an architectural essay, exquisitely worked in miniature.”

  Architectural Review April 2002

  RIBA Award

  RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize

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