Matthew Kernan

Architect

[Architizer @Architizer]

An instrument, a playground, a theatre, a stage, a museum, a sculpture, a room. SoundYard was conceived as a piece of societal infrastructure offered to the city as a place to gather around and gather within.
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Details: https://t.co/iIo8yYdWaN | Belfast, United Kingdom

[AAI @AAIarchitecture]

AAI Site Visit | Arigho Larmour Wheeler Architects House on Dalkey Hill 11.02.23 🎟 Tickets available through Eventbrite

[NorthernIrelandOpera @NIOpera]

Lovely day for a free performance in the stunning #SoundYard @MaritimeBelfast! Thanks to everyone who stopped by or joined us to listen - and to soprano Petra Wells and pianist Niall O'Flaherty! @ArtsCouncilNI @matherscarolyn

[Matthew Kernan @mkernan22]

A recent interview about the SoundYard pavilion with @dezeen! @MaritimeBelfast

[Dezeen @dezeen]

The ten-metre-wide circular canopy with central oculus is supported on 16 slim columns, from which hang two concentric sets of suspended rods. https://t.co/7Gx8nDYoKq

[Armagh I @ArmaghI]

'She was in an incubator with chest drains so we couldn't take her out to hold her. Everything the staff did for us was unbelievable' https://t.co/meIHZ9RPYB

[Matthew Kernan @mkernan22]

M&E;
Arup; David Algie, Nuria Priego, Neil Smyth

Cost Consultants;
WH Stephens; Ray Anderson, Kevin Gibney

Principal Contractor;
Fabrite; Nigel Johnston, Jason Ligget, TJ Morris, Kenny McAleenon, Sam Moffett

Photography:
Joe Laverty

[Matthew Kernan @mkernan22]

SoundYard, Belfast, As-Built, 2021.

Delighted to be able to share a selection of SoundYard photographs captured by @JoeLaverty.

Many thanks to all who have helped us achieve this and the people of Belfast for giving us such an overwhelming response since its opening.

[Matthew Kernan @mkernan22]

Project Design Team:

Architects & Designers;
Eunan Deeney, Matthew Kernan, Hannah Wilson

Collaborators;
Todd Architects; Paul Crowe, James Hannah, Bobby Moore

Principle Designer;
Dimensions CDM; Jim Armstrong

Structural Engineers;
RPS; Paul McGettigan, Emily Phillips

[Queen's Architecture (Archive) @QUBarch]

Huge thanks to guests Adam Doherty, @chamill625 of @CyanotypeM, and @mkernan22 of @alwarchitects for their inspiring and fun talks/workshops today at the @QUBarch #SkillsBazaar

[Belfast City Council @belfastcc]

Loving #Soundyard - the newest addition to Belfast's skyline! The installation - which uses movement sensors & metal rods to evoke the sounds of the shipyards - is lit up at night to create a stunning focal point along the #MaritimeMile.
https://t.co/jiphnkNbFu

[Maritime Belfast Trust @MaritimeBelfast]

Amazing performance to end the night by Belfast Beo!
#SoundYard #MaritimeMile #MaritimeBelfast

[Maritime Belfast Trust @MaritimeBelfast]

SoundYard is officially open!
Make sure to head down & jump in to see if you can set off the hammering and clanging noises of Belfasts former shipyards!

#MaritimeMile #MaritimeBelfast #SoundYard

[Maritime Belfast Trust @MaritimeBelfast]

#WorldArchitectureDay
So much inspiration along Belfast's waterfront. The 2019 CityPlay Design Comp challenged young architects to form ideas for integration of play on the #MaritimeMile
SoundYard was inspired by the noise of striking metal, once heard in shipyards.
Opens Oct 21

[Matthew Kernan @mkernan22]

@ClancyAndrew Shatwell?

[alwarchitects @alwarchitects]

Lovely to have this little @alwarchitects sketch of ours included in an impressive long list for the @RIBAJ #ribaeyeline drawing competition, congratulations to those awarded!
Some @QUBarch students work included in the selection and lots to be inspired by… @ArchitectureNI

[Emmett Scanlon @Emmett_Scanlon]

Still a good question, two years on. #housing

[Story_Building @Story__Building]

Ep 24 on #architecture in #NorthernIreland with .@AislingRusk .@JaneLarmour .@Ciaranovic and Aidan Mc Grath out now - #podcast #design

Anchor
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Apple
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Spotify
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[alwarchitects @alwarchitects]

Lovely article about Mark’s house in Image. https://t.co/5ONu6KLFHC

[Matthew Kernan @mkernan22]

@hughpearman https://t.co/T6kkH9ccfa

[Architects’ Journal @ArchitectsJrnal]

Spring start for young architects’ Belfast musical installation https://t.co/L2hXgAHKwZ

[Maritime Belfast Trust @MaritimeBelfast]

SoundYard will be located where Queens Quay was constructed in 1844-46 as Belfast Harbour began to expand.

The former Kelly’s Coal yards were established here in 1840s overlooking the Harbour & Abercorn Basin. It was also the site of a brass foundry.

#SoundYard #MaritimeBelfast