Blackwood Golf Club Clandeboye, Bangor, County Down 1992-4 Sheila O'Donnell/John Tuomey The architects describe their project as a 'constructed landscape' in which the buildings are integrated with their pastoral surroundings by means of terraces, gardens, hedges, embankments and cuttings. Sited on a mound at the edge of woodland, the working parts of the brief are arranged in a series of buildings grouped around a raised courtyard-promenade that completes the circuit from 1st tee to 18th green and overlooks the landscape beyond the driving range. Drawing on an international language of traditional forms, each element of the programme is individually expressed, so that even the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The collagist planning of the project brings to mind aspects of the 'ancient and sacred acropolis of Cashel', with its complex ordering of castle, cathedral, side chapels, tower and Cormac's Chapel: urbs in ruris. The central pile of masonry gives way to a lighter timber construction, creating a sense of movement towards the woodland, marking a diminution from the collective facilities to the natural landscape and creating what has been described as 'a painterly, cinematic and dreamy effect', best seen, fragmented and flickering, through the trees. This project contributes to re-establishing confidence in, and sensitivity to, building in the Irish landscape. Shane O'Toole (published in 20th Century Architecture Ireland edited by Annette Becker, John Olley and Wilfried Wang. 1997, Prestel, Munich, New York )