This project establishes a space for large scale travelling exhibitions of contemporary art, complementing the permanent collection of Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.

It also provides a home for the annual Eigse festival, Ireland's largest arts festival. The idea of festival became a powerful generating idea - encompassing the moment of collective celebration and a heightened sense of the everyday. We understood this as appropriate both in terms of the annual festival and also in the act of representation through the making of art. The building established grounds for this to occur, weaving, interlocking and overlapping at various scales and in a temporal sense, allowing for change over time.

Conceived as operating between city and landscape, it establishes relationships between a series of internal and external spaces of various scales, including those, which already exist. At a larger scale it offers the opportunity for the city to reconnect with its history and the wider landscape in which it sits.