"Risky Belfast"- Rescuing Buildings At Risk

The buildings at risk project was initiated in Northern Ireland in the early 1990s and continues as an active partnership between Ulster Architectural Heritage and the Department for Communities. In central Belfast, the Merchant Hotel and St. George’s Market represent two of the most high-profile cases of the successful reuse of historic buildings, the former by a commercial developer and the latter by the city council with critical support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. This whistle-stop tour of city centre buildings at risk will include both these award-winning schemes in addition to several other significant historic buildings dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The walk will conclude with a visit to the fantastic Riddel’s warehouse with its four-storey galleried interior, which is currently proposed for transformation into a gallery and cultural space.

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