dermot foley landscape architects

Foley & Salles Landscape Architects, a joint venture between Dermot Foley Landscape Architects and Rémi Salles Landscape Architects, have won the international design competition for the design of two public parks in Adamstown. Adamstown is a Strategic Development Zone, 10km west of Dublin’s city centre and includes the construction of approximately 10,000 residential units, a new train station and four new public parks. The two largest parks, Airlie Park and Tandy’s Lane Park, which were the subject of the competition, are to be constructed as part of an overall public realm strategy for the new town. The project team for the competition was directed by Rémi Salles and Dermot Foley. The landscape architects were Simon Canz, Arnaud Alatissiere, Bernie Kinsella, Daibhi MacDomhnaill, Mun Suk Lee, Stephanie Cruchon, Amelie Leroy, Victor Moreaud, Catherine Charles.

The design….. ‘deploys a clever hierarchy of routes and public spaces with entry points and associated uses linked to the masterplan's intentions. Its geometry is gentle, but responsive and acknowledges the full variety of routes, uses and residential types around the edges of both parks. The spatial organisation and clarity of the project contains a strong, legible structure, easily understandable and yet diverse. The developed scheme offers a consistency of design in terms of line, datum and materials which is very reassuring; the consistency of built and planting language allows both parks to be viewed together, but for each to tell a different story‘.

Eddie Conroy, Senior Architect, South Dublin County Council