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Supporting
Irish Design

Sisk have strong links with Enterprise Ireland, www.enterprise-ireland.com, most recently with
their Irish Design campaign – ID2015. ID2015 is a year-long initiative exploring, promoting and
celebrating Irish design throughout Ireland and internationally.

ID2015 have collaborated with the London Festival of The Yellow Pavilion by Hall McKnight is situated above a
Architecture to erect structures in a venue near London’s series of brick arches. These inform the structure which is
Kings Cross throughout June. Through our Dublin and St made from sheet-timber and arranged in such a way as
Albans offices, we have supported this fantastic initiative generate a thickness or depth that affords the structure
by providing all logistical arrangements and actually the character of something both substantial yet delicate.
building the structures. Within the room are 1,000 reclaimed bricks which line the
lower levels of the space. It’s made up of 100 prefabricated
We constructed two pavilions, one red and modules with a total weight of four and a half tonnes.
one yellow. The yellow pavilion explores ideas of It was weighted down by seven tonnes of sand placed
memory and fabric, while the red pavilion explores within the bottom layer of modules. The bricks inside
architecture’s role as a background to the activities it were painted by art students that were salvaged from a
contains. One is introvert and one extravert. demolished building in Belfast.

The red Pavilion was developed by TAKA, Clancy Following the installation, at the end of June the
Moore and Steve Larkin Architects. It is entirely open at pavilions were returned to Ireland, the yellow one to
ground level and is intended as a meeting place by those Dublin and the red one to Galway.
in the area or by families for picnics etc. It’s made up of Karen Hennessy, Chief Executive of ID2015, said ‘we
approximately 30 tonnes of concrete in four columns and are extremely honoured to receive such a high level
eight kentledge blocks, ten tonnes of timber frame panels, of support by top quality Irish companies. We would
one and a half tonnes of roof sheets and one tonne of sincerely like to thank you for your participation and
purlins and rafters. involvement...all would not have been possible without
you. We will endeavour to reconstruct the pavilions in
Dublin in 2016, which will be another opportunity to
celebrate our partnership.’

A big thank you must go to david debutts
and his small team in our St Albans offi ce for
helping to arrange the logistics of this project.
it has been a huge success and many visitors
have had a great deal of pleasure from seeing
ireland’s architecture in such a prominent
london space.

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