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Think Tank
Skibbereen Boathouse, Ireland – 1998
Gumuchdjian’s sensitivity to context and purpose, his feeling for materials and attention to detail has transformed what could have been a modest riverside retreat into an architectural essay, exquisitely worked in miniature.
Architectural Review
April 2002
This is, at once, a practical structure and a building loaded almost weightlessly with a cultural resonance that takes us back to the certainties of Ancient Greek architecture, and, by extension to an Arcadian idyll.
Jonathan Glancey
It’s just a hut on a river, a place of concentration, restfulness and solitude, a statement from a pristine dogma, a dream come true, also a boathouse and stables, even a Japanese pavilion. In other words, a modern incarnation of man’s archetypical shelter.
MD
July 2000
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Project Info+
Think Tank
Skibbereen Boathouse, Ireland – 1998
Gumuchdjian’s sensitivity to context and purpose, his feeling for materials and attention to detail has transformed what could have been a modest riverside retreat into an architectural essay, exquisitely worked in miniature.
Architectural Review
April 2002
This is, at once, a practical structure and a building loaded almost weightlessly with a cultural resonance that takes us back to the certainties of Ancient Greek architecture, and, by extension to an Arcadian idyll.
Jonathan Glancey
It’s just a hut on a river, a place of concentration, restfulness and solitude, a statement from a pristine dogma, a dream come true, also a boathouse and stables, even a Japanese pavilion. In other words, a modern incarnation of man’s archetypical shelter.
MD
July 2000
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