Award winning architect Geoffrey Bannister lives in west Cork where he has been adapting properties.
Geoffrey Bannister received an award of £4,000 from the Jacobsen Family Foundation in Copenhagen in praise of his architectural designs on new buildings and reconstructed old buildings.
Geoffrey Bannister lives beside Glandore Harbour in County Cork. Speaking on the merits of good architecture, he praises the quality of 18th and 19th century buildings in Ireland. However, he believes that many new buildings, such as one-off bungalows, have spoilt the countryside.
They are imported designs and have no respect whatsoever for the indigenous architecture.
Examples of his work can be found in the Cork area and beyond. Older generations of builders took account of factors such as the prevailing winds from the sea setting houses in sheltered locations. Many of the more recent buildings are set on top of hills.
Geoffrey Bannister describes the renovations carried out on a building which were sympathetic to the original structure and praises the work of local builders.
No one would know that it had been rebuilt.
For Geoffrey Bannister the work of a qualified, trained architect is imperative in producing first class workmanship.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 3 September 1984. The reporter is John O'Donoghue.
