IHBC Annual School - Belfast 2018
Our Shared Heritage - communication, negotiation, transformation
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 June 2018
NB: All times are approximate, however tour start times cannot be delayed for late arrivals
Ulster Architectural Heritage (UAH) for Full School Registration and tour starts
NB: UAH also serves as the departure point for buses to School accommodation at QUB, Elms Village (see below), from 4.30-5.00 pm
Ulster Architectural Heritage venue includes luggage store and refreshment point
The IHBC is very grateful to the Ulster Architectural Heritage for making its home available to the 2018 School delegates for registration.
Start venue details: Ulster Architectural Heritage offices
12.00 pm – 4.30 pm (latest) Annual School Registration;
Location:
Ulster Architectural Heritage
The Old Museum Building
7 College Square North
Belfast
BT1 6AR
Northern Ireland
NB: The location on Google Maps for the Ulster Architectural Heritage offices is incorrect.The UAH offices are located on the NORTH side of College Square North, midway between College Place North and College Avenue.
Full School accommodation is at:
Queen's University Belfast
Elms Village
78 Malone Road
Belfast
BT9 5BW
T: +44 (0) 28 9097 4525
F: +44 (0) 28 9097 4524
Photograph courtesy of Queen's University
NB: Full School residential delegates not going on the Thursday tours must check in at Ulster Architectural Heritage offices in College Square North if arriving before 4.30 pm. Those arriving after 4.30 pm can check in at Queen's University Belfast Elms Village.
Study Tours: 1.30 pm to 4.40 pm, at the Ulster Architectural Heritage offices
(Please allow plenty of time between arrival and the start of your tour.)
NB: Bus departs Ulster Architectural Heritage offices for Queen's University Belfast Elms Village at 4.30 and 5.00 pm prompt. Ulster Architectural Heritage offices close at 5.00 pm prompt.
All study Tours depart from the Ulster Architectural Heritage offices (address above) at different times, and most return to the Ulster Architectural Heritage offices from where a bus will take residential delegates and luggage to accommodation, at Queen's University Belfast Elms Village.
Notes:
Leaves: Ulster Architectural Heritage offices at 1.30 pm (taxi, cost covered as required or c.15 min. walk) for Queen's University Belfast, University Road, with scheduled start at University Road at 1.45 pm
Tour Ends: Queen's University Belfast Elms Village at c.4.30 pm (Luggage deposited at Ulster Architectural Heritage offices will be brought by bus and stored at accommodation reception)
Tour Lead: Dawson Stelfox, Consarc Design Group
Photograph courtesy of Queen's University
NB: Partial ‘Hard Hat’ tour
The historic campus of Queen’s University Belfast is one of the most attractive in the UK and Ireland. Much of the campus, including the centerpiece neo-Elizabethan ‘Lanyon Building’ dating from the 1840s, is located within the Queen’s Conservation Area, the first designated in the city in 1987. The university shares this part of South Belfast with other historic institutions, including the Botanic Gardens and Ulster Museum. This walk will explore the architectural heritage and shared public realm that characterises this area, including significant recent developments in the physical evolution of the campus, and how these integrate functionally as well as in urban design terms into the historic context.
CPD references
Tour Sponsor: Open
Leaves: Ulster Architectural Heritage at 1.45 pm (walking)
Tour ends: Ulster Architectural Heritage offices at 4.30 pm (or earlier at Queen's University Belfast Elms Village)
Tour Lead: Siobhan Brown, Clanmil's Hearth Heritage Division
Hearth has been providing housing in historic buildings across Northern Ireland for over four decades, in many instances rescuing buildings at risk from the brink of demolition. The resulting schemes introduce much needed social housing, in the process providing confidence for others to invest in regenerative activities in deprived areas, as well as exemplars for preservation trusts and others from which to draw inspiration. Several of Hearth’s most well-known schemes are located in Belfast city centre, and these will be visited during the course of the walk, which will also provide insights into the approach taken to retrofitting and improving the thermal performance of their housing stock. Hearth Housing Association recently merged with Clanmil to form Clanmil’s new Hearth Heritage Division.
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Tour Sponsor: Open
Leaves: Ulster Architectural Heritage offices at 2.00 pm (walking)
Tour ends: Ulster Architectural Heritage at 4.20 pm
Tour Lead: Dr Paul Harron, Church of Ireland Press Officer
Belfast city centre retains an eclectic mix of historic churches many of which pre-date the period of the city’s most intense industrial expansion from the mid-nineteenth century. A significant number remain in active use as places of worship, thus continuing to contribute to the civic and social life of the city while retaining their architectural integrity and characterful historic interiors. This walk, in addition to addressing the history and architecture of these sacred spaces, will also speak to the ongoing challenges faced by declining congregations and how they are innovating to remain open, including sharing their spaces and stories with the wider city and its growing visitor numbers.
CPD references
Tour Sponsor: Open
Ulster Architectural Heritage offices at 2.00 pm (walking)
Tour ends: Ulster Architectural Heritage at 4.20 pm
The buildings at risk project was initiated in Northern Ireland in the early 1990s and continues as an active partnership between Ulster Architectural Heritage and the Department for Communities. In central Belfast, the Merchant Hotel and St. George’s Market represent two of the most high-profile cases of the successful reuse of historic buildings, the former by a commercial developer and the latter by the city council with critical support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. This whistle-stop tour of city centre buildings at risk will include both these award-winning schemes in addition to several other significant historic buildings dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The walk will conclude with a visit to the fantastic Riddel’s warehouse with its four-storey galleried interior, which is currently proposed for transformation into a gallery and cultural space.
CPD references
Tour Sponsor: Open
Leaves: Ulster Architectural Heritage offices at 2.10 pm (walking)
Tour ends: Ulster Architectural Heritage offices at 4.40 pm
Tour Lead: Shane Quinn, Belfast Buildings Trust
The Clifton Street, Carlisle Circus and Crumlin Road area of north Belfast remains one of the most historically interesting in the city, home to the oldest public building, Clifton House, and several other landmarks including the former Crumlin Road Gaol and Courthouse. Although severely impacted by road infrastructure from the 1970s, and containing several ‘interfaces’ between communities, the area is undergoing a gradual process of heritage-led regeneration with the proactive involvement of civil society. Led by the Belfast Buildings Trust, which is responsible for the conservation of several buildings at risk in the area, the walk will illuminate the architectural heritage of this part of north Belfast and outline plans for the transformation of its historic assets.
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Tour Sponsor: Open
Leaves: Ulster Architectural Heritage offices at 2.10 pm (walking)
Tour ends: Ulster Architectural Heritage offices at 4.40 pm
Tour Lead: Marcus Patton, Historic Buildings Council for Northern Ireland
Belfast’s distinctive physical character and sense of place has been shaped by numerous natural and human factors, not least the influence of architectural fashions and tastes emanating from elsewhere. Indeed, several of the city’s grandest historic buildings, including City Hall and the Merchant Hotel were designed by architects from England and Scotland respectively, with their primary building materials imported into a city that was otherwise predominantly built from local red brick. This walk, led by the author of the definitive guide to the architecture of central Belfast, will look at a number of these important historic buildings and also how outside influences affected the work of local architects.
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Tour Sponsor: Open
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