AIA Continental Europe with AIA United Kingdom

SPRING CONFERNCE

11 - 13 April 2025

Event space is limited. Registration opens end of 2024.

AIA Continental Europe and AIA United Kingdom offers approved AIA CES continuing education.

Come join the AIA Continental Europe and AIA United Kingdom Chapters as we explore this lively city on Ireland’s south coast. Cork was founded on an island in the middle of the River Lee and developed within the constraints of its unique topography (hills and views to you and me).

The city is compact and walkable and the successful pedestrianisation of main streets and quays by the city council in the last decade have kept it so. Buildings from every era sit cheek by jowl and new buildings must box clever to slip in neatly. We will visit a few of the best.

Cork has been blessed and cursed by doughnut development, with burgeoning suburbs and stagnating city centre. No longer. Recent developments on the quays have set a high standard and the city is on the brink of a larger brownfield development on the old city port. A great city to walk, some lovely gems to visit and plenty to consider on urban renewal.

Cork is known as a festival city reflecting the arts, with events staged in the city centre, literary and especially musical – choral to jazz.

We will visit University College Cork with an attractive campus west of the city centre which contains many fine buildings, including the Glucksman gallery (O’Donnell + Tuomey). 

It is not all brain food either. Cork is served by a great hinterland of rich Munster farmland and a matrix of artisan food producers. The produce is on display at the famous English Market in the city centre and available in the local restaurants.

If a longer visit is tempting, Cork makes a good spot to start or end a trip to Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way.