irsko Projects 27 Created 28-Dec-12 By martina bilkova, prag, Czech Republic Baldoyle Library Baldoyle, FKL s library Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology Restaurant and Theatre Building No1 Grand Canal Square Reworking a 1930s house in Sandymount Hotel at Grand Canal Square Elmpark 6 Donore Avenue Youth and Community Centre 7 Timberyard Social Housing 8 The Morgan 14 James Joyce Bridge 15 The Beacon 16 Suburban Frontal 17 Housing Reuben Street 18 Dublin, FKL s housing 9 Hedge House 19 Dublin, GKMP s private house 10 A house 20 Dublin, FKL s private house 11 Dublin, O'Donnell + Tuomey s community centre, housing, social housing Double House Dublin, Simon J Kelly + Partners s private house Dublin, Henchion + Reuter s community centre, sport Dublin, Traynor O'Toole s hotel Dublin, bucholzmcevoy s congress centre, housing, mixed-use development 13 Dublin, Santiago Calatrava bridge Dublin, Aires Mateus s hotel, housing 5 Dublin, CAST architecture private house House at Richmond Place Dublin, Tom de Paor s dwellings Dublin, DMOD s office 4 Dundalk, Van Dijk s education, restaurant, theatre, university Dublin, Boyd Cody architects private house Galway, Murray Ó Laoire s education, laboratorium 3 S3 Silicon and Software Systems 21 Dublin, FKL s office 12 Dublin, Niall D Brennan Associates hotel http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 3 Houses 22 Dublin, FKL s private house 1
Busáras Dublin, Scott Tallon Walker s bus station, passenger terminal Mews House Sancton Wood Building Dublin, Anthony Reddy & Associates apartment, commercial space, mixed-use development, underground parking Department of Finance Clontarf Pumphouse 27 Dublin, depaor architects energy centre 24 Dublin, TAKA architects private house 23 The Ormond Building 28 Dublin, DMOD s commercial space, meeting room, office 25 The Spire of Dublin 29 Dublin, Ian Ritchie s art, landmark, monument 26 Dublin, Grafton architects http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 2
photo: Paul Tierney Baldoyle Library Strand Rd Dublin 13 Baldoyle The concept for the building is a folded tube wrapped around the side and behind the existing building At ground level the tube address a new public space while at first floor the tube looks to the sea Project is public! 2004 Building costs consultant Services engineer Structural engineer FKL s Davis Langdon PKS McArdle McSweeney Associates Moylan Consulting Engineers Fingal County Council P_Kelly photo: Paul Tierney Monday to Thursday: 1000am - 100pm Closed for Lunch 200pm - 830pm Friday & Saturday: 1000am - 100pm Closed for Lunch 200pm -500pm Closed Saturday and Monday of Bank Holidays Dart from city centre to Sutton Station Approx 10 minute walk from the station Bus service 32A, 32X, 32B, 102 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 3
photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology Dublin Road Galway http://wwwgmitie photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga The Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) is located along the Dublin Road, one of the main approaches to Galway City The site is due south and overlooks Galway Bay and the ocean For a building that has managed to achieve a landmark status in its external treatment, the proportions and scale are very human Although dramatic in its external appearance, the building is simple and legible The copper clad sails project out from the building permitting light to filter into the Library area and they also provide a degree of protection from direct sunlight These sails by their form, act as acoustic baffles and internally reflect light deep into the library plan Framed views are strategically gained at the sail junctions where strip windows are inserted The sails take cognisance of Galway's location on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean and its maritime past Project is public! Floor area/size 1-2003 10262 m² Murray Ó Laoire s Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology MVar From Dublin: Take the N6 West and follow directions for Galway On approaching Oranmore, take the 3rd exit at the Oranbeg roundabout At Carrowmoneach roundabout take 2nd exit At Martin roundabout take 1st exit Continue through 3 sets of traffic lights At Skerritt roundabout take the 3rd exit Entrance to GMIT is on your left http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 4
photo: Gerry O'Leary photo: Gerry O'Leary Restaurant and Theatre Building Dublin Road 1 Dlk Dundalk http://wwwdkitie/ As the centrepiece of connectivity for a third level educational campus - Dundalk Institute of Technology - this Restaurant and Theatre arena provides a social hub for college life Situated in a large open plaza of approx3000 sqm, which also provides a relaxing outdoor space and alternative events venue, the building is easily accessed from all college faculty buildings A substantial feature awning and forecourt at the entrance to the Restaurant and Theatre allows students to congregate freely, while the 500 seat refectory style restaurant incorporates a wall of windows spanning the length of the building creating maximum natural light and visibility A particular feature of the design was to incorporate a new performance venue in the form of a campus theatre The design concept expresses the experimental nature of student productions and the innovative addition of the large outdoor TV screen opens up possibilities for outside audiences photo: Gerry O'Leary Project is public! 8-2007 Van Dijk s Dundalk Institute of Technology Johannes 800 am to 900 pm From Dublin, take the M1 north Take third exit off the roundabout at exit 16, proceed to traffic controlled junction and take left turn for Dundalk The college is on the right http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 5
photo: Paul Tierney photo: Paul Tierney No1 Grand Canal Square Grand Canal Square 1 02 Dublin No 1 Grand Canal Square was commissioned as a speculative office building in Dublin's Docklands The building features a number of elements that were uniquely developed for the scheme, including a lift shaft internally clad in granite and a custom-designed façade system employed on the north and east of the building Four types of glass are used in the construction: a high selective solar control coated glass for the largest units, an anti-reflective coated glass for the smaller units highlighting the structure, a decorative dichroic coated laminate glass for the external fins and a high selective solar control coated glass with a coloured laminate for the rear of balconies All are supported in a combination aluminium and steel system, supported from the primary structure on a structural steel sub-frame Public access unknown! Floor area/size 2006 16500 m² DMOD s mbassett photo: Paul Tierney Follow Pearse Street out of town until you meet Grand Canal Quay; take a left along Grand Canal Quay and No1 Grand Canal Square is located along the left hand side http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 6
photo: Alice Clancy photo: Alice Clancy Reworking a 1930s house in Sandymount Farney Park, Sandymount 36 4 Dublin A house built in 1937 is reworked to reveal hidden space and make it more suitable for contemporary life The house interior is stretched and extended, but nothing has been built Inside and outside are more connected A timber interior of oak and cedar is matched with a timber exterior of cedar, left to go grey Old steel windows are replaced with new windows, made by the same manufacturer of the originals The best extension never built Floor area/size 3-2009 150 m² CAST architecture EmmettScanlon photo: Alice Clancy http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 7
photo: Filipe Brandão Hotel at Grand Canal Square Hanover Quay Dublin http://wwwdddaie The Grand Canal Square project is a heady mix of international architecture that will become a new urban village for Dublin City The project combines several major elements, of which the Grand Canal Theatre by Daniel Libeskind, west of the Square is the most eye catching To the north of the Square, Manuel Aires Mateus has designed a dramatic luxury 5 star hotel with 94 Hotel Residences Described by the Sunday Times as a building which will "bring the champagne fizz back into architecture in Dublin", the hotel features a dramatic lobby designed as though "excavated from a seven storey rock" photo: Filipe Brandão Project is public! 2008 Aires Mateus s Dublin Docklands Development Authority filipeb Dublin Docklands is only minutes from the city centre http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 8
photo: Matthias Hanzlik photo: Matthias Hanzlik Elmpark Merrion Road Dublin 4 Dublin http://wwwelmparkie Elmpark is a massive 100000 m² mixed-use development in south-western Dublin Close to the coast it benefits from spectacular views over Dublin Bay The development consists of 6 linear multi-storey structures incorporating a hotel, a hospital, a congress centre, offices and apartments, 8 smaller buildings, a leisure centre with swimming pool and 7 two-storey buildings inhabiting senior citizens Elmpark is seen as a vision that promotes sustainable, high density and low energy mixed-use development The footprint of the buildings is compact to minimize the impact on the ground and to support the idea of a continuously flowing landscape underneath the buildings This public landscape is understood as a 'garden' Areas in this 'garden' are defined by the buildings overhead The buildings which appear different due to their function and layout The overall design is highly influenced by a comprehensive ecological approach to achieve the aims of a sustainable low energy solution photo: Matthias Hanzlik Floor area/size 2008 100000 m² Contractor bucholzmcevoy s Michael Mcnamara Radora Development LTD Matthias_Hanzlik By train: using the DART from Dublin city centre direction south Get off at Sydney Parade Elmpark is located in 5 to 8 minutes footfall to the south http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 9
photo: Paul Tierney photo: Paul Tierney Donore Avenue Youth and Community Centre Donore Avenue Dublin 8 Dublin Situated in the Liberties, one of Dublin's currently changing areas, this striking Youth and Community Centre on Donore Avenue provides a wide range of facilities for local residents The volume contains a number of various rooms for education and multi-purpose (like a computer room, kitchen-facilities and a meditation room), a gymnasium and a stunning roof garden photo: Paul Tierney Project is public! 2004 Henchion + Reuter s Dublin County Council Matthias_Hanzlik Monday to Friday: 0730-2200 / Saturday: 0900-1500 By car: follow the Grand Canal on the South Circular Road and turn into Donore Avenue By foot: from the City Center take the Red Luas Line and exit at Station Fatima Then follow Reuben Street until Barn Street, turn left and follow Barn Street until the Corner of Donore Avenue on the right side http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 10
photo: Matthias Hanzlik photo: Matthias Hanzlik Timberyard Social Housing Cork Street Dublin 8 Dublin The Timberyard development consists of a new social housing scheme comprising of 47 dwellings and a street level community facility It is situated in the historic Liberties area of Dublin, fronting on to the Coombe By-Pass The site layout completes existing and fragmented city blocks It focuses on a public space, turning the former timberyard into a communicative space The seven-storey scale along Cork Street staggers and slopes down to three storeys to match the smaller scale of the existing houses to the north of the site Materials make references to the surrounding, red brick-dominated neighbourhood and the history of the site as a timberyard Concrete is introduced as an additional material The unites provide private open space in the form of private gardens, roof terraces and balconies cut into the building volume A small Marian grotto that previously stood outside the site can be now find in a short pedestrian passage photo: Nazar Leskiw 2009 Services engineer Structural engineer Contractor O'Donnell + Tuomey s Buro Happold Downes Associates Townlink Construction Dublin City Council Matthias_Hanzlik http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 11
photo: Barry Murphy photo: Barry Murphy The Morgan Fleet Street 10 Dublin http://wwwthemorgancom/ Niall D Brennan and designer Brian Mc Donald of Design Farm have created a haven of underplayed elegance with The Morgan in Dublin s vibrant Temple Bar district The purpose of the new intervention was twofold firstly to increase the street presence of the hotel on to street and secondly to create a bar that reflected the contemporary style of the hotel and which would be able to cater for the serving of breakfast and lunch Project is public! 4-2002 Main designer, Interior architect Niall D Brennan Associates Design Farm The Fitzpatrick hotel group toffe_tico photo: Barry Murphy Ideally located in Dublin City Center, The Morgan Hotel is just a short stroll away from Grafton Street, Dublin's main shopping thoroughfare, theatres and the IFSC, Dublin's primary business district http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 12
photo: Paul Tierney photo: Paul Tierney House at Richmond Place Richmond Place D6 Dublin This little house in Dublin picks up on the once heroic idea that built form can exert a positive pressure on individuals to venture outside and find some good company Across the road from it is a tall yellow-bricked, golden gable, solidly built with a tiny white window and delicate curtain the only signs of the domestic life inside Taking the density of the gable as a point of departure, the new house appears as a solid brick extrusion, which then, in response to the sloping ground condition and a wish to capture light and views, has been sliced, layered and rotated up and around, creating overhangs and shelters and cut brick walls to make edges and yards, the baked inside-face of the yellow bricks on the tops of walls beautifully revealed as a deep, pure purple Infused with an emotional, witty intelligence, the house seems to be intent on subtly turning typical domestic forms inside out - and putting occupant, home and neighbourhood back together again photo: Paul Tierney 2005 Boyd Cody architects Undisclosed EmmettScanlon http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 13
photo: Dennis Gilbert photo: Dennis Gilbert Double House John Dillon Street 0 & -1 D8 Dublin Dublin has two mirrors on John Dillon Street As you approach this pair of houses, a neighbour's plastic neo-georgian window unexpectedly becomes a framed object of contemplation As the taut mirror passively reflects the life of the street, the house actively begins to chat with it, working its way into the traditional, redbrick neighbourhood This witty device makes visible the spirit of the double house It seems delighted to have moved in, but respects the lie of the land and the rules of the road The double house stands in the grounds of the adjacent Church of St Nicholas of Myra, occupying part of the graveyard Unable for planning reasons to be higher than the established datum of the churchyard wall, the house instead digs deep into the damp Dublin clay, a full storey below street level Conjured into existence, numbered 0 and -1, a discreet veil of finely made, carefully coursed calp limestone is tautly drawn over the exterior photo: Dennis Gilbert 2005 Tom de Paor s Undisclosed EmmettScanlon http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 14
photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga James Joyce Bridge Blackhall Place and Usher's Island 8 Dublin It's a road bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin,, joining the South Quays to Blackhall Place Designed by the Spanish architect, artist and engineer Santiago Calatrava (born on July 28, 1951 in Valencia) The bridge was opened on June 16, 2003, it is named for the famous Dublin author James Joyce, whose short story "The Dead" is set in Number 15 Usher's Island, the house facing the bridge on the south side (wikipedia) photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga Project is public! 6-2003, Artist Santiago Calatrava City of Dublin MVar http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 15
photo: Barry Murphy photo: Barry Murphy The Beacon Sandyford Dublin http://wwwthebeaconcom/ The Beacon is an exciting mix of cool clean lines, white interior spaces, magnificent glass chandeliers, Philippe Starck baths in every bathroom and chairs in every bedroom, open spaces, natural elements throughout, leather and oak features, a four poster design bed in the lobby and maximum use of natural light are just some of the elements that make this Hotel so special The Hotel which is situated on the corner of the M50 and the link road to Dundrum is in a prime location and is a short walk from the LUAS proving superb access to Dublin s shopping quarters The Hotel is built alongside 70 apartments and residents will have access to the Hotel services Traynor O Toole s designed the Hotel and designer Brian McDonald was commissioned to design the Hotel interior and his design concept was to create a space that maximized the use of natural light combined with the use of natural elements wood, water, stone and leather Project is public! 2-2005 Main designer, Interior architect Traynor O'Toole s Design Farm The Fitzpatrick hotel group NGHM photo: Barry Murphy From City Centre: From O Connell Street, go across O Connell Bridge follow the road to Dame Street At the second set of traffic lights go left Continue along Georges Street, Aungier Street to Camden Street, follow the road around to the left and take first left Continue through Ranelagh and Goatstown and the Goat Grill is on your right Continue up this road to the Blackthorn Drive junction and take a left The Beacon Hotel is on your right To the car park take another right and right again http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 16
photo: Ros Kavanagh Suburban Frontal Silchester Park 91 Dublin This project entails the extension to the front of a 1950's suburban house in Dublin Floor area/size 9-2007 45 m² Simon J Kelly + Partners s dermot_mccabe photo: Ros Kavanagh Glenageary DART station http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 17
photo: Paul Tierney photo: Paul Tierney Housing Reuben Street Reuben Street 8 Dublin The pace at which certain parts of the city of Dublin are being developed is aggressively challenging the spatial and physical memory of Dubliners This is certainly true in the Liberties, one of the oldest parts of the city and the location of this housing scheme by FKL Their strategy was to design two restrained, L-shaped red brick blocks and sit them down on a grey stone and mosaic tile plinth This distinct separation of elements allows this landmark to do what others often miss - to operate simultaneously in the local and wider urban context The solid, muscular masonry forms ensure this building is seen from a considerable distance, always maintaining a clear, non-reflective clean silhouette FKL have made a seminal contribution to Dublin's discussion about how to make a collection of homes that still offer individual expression 2006 FKL s Diamond Leather EmmettScanlon photo: Paul Tierney http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 18
photo: Alice Clancy photo: Alice Clancy Hedge House Northbrook Ln Dublin 6 Dublin The new house is located on a wedge-shaped site on a Ranelagh mews lane The clients wanted a large family house with a generous garden The house is located at the eastern end and is entered from a courtyard open to the lane way The privet hedge is retained to give privacy to the garden A new wall and car entrance are made at the western end with a path connecting back to the house The house is a very low energy (A-Rated) construction with a timber-frame clad in white bricks The bricks are 50mm high, giving a denser and more horizontal quality to the walls Iroko windows and iroko cladding are set flush with the outer face of the brickwork The mono-pitch roof is finished in zinc, while the flat roof has a sedum covering The house incorporates a Heat Recovery Ventilation System and a Rainwater Harvesting System that is used for the lavatories and washing machine photo: Alice Clancy Floor area/size 11-2010 253 m² GKMP s Private Michael_Pike Northbrook Lane is on the left hand side as you travel down Northbrook Road from Ranelagh http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 19
photo: Verena Henze photo: Verena Henze A house Cambridge Road Dublin 6 Dublin Concerns of establishing a relationship with the garden and maximising daylight penetration in a North facing building where East & West facades are blank, dictated the organisation of family rooms at ground and first floor connected by a narrow void This layout is expressed architecturally as a 'slipped tube' of space, coded materially in sandblasted concrete, stratified from front to rear, divided programmatically with joinery boxes A strong visual and spatial connection is established between the kitchen / dining room at ground level and the study on the first floor capitalising on day lighting and glimpsed views This move creates diagonal visual relationships that extend spatial awareness to the limits of the depth, breadth and length of the house Arranged around this conceptually manipulated tube, are the less public rooms: garage, utility room and WC at ground level and children?s bedrooms and bathroom at first floor Floor area/size 8-2008 265 m² Structural engineer FKL s CORA P_Kelly photo: Verena Henze http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 20
photo: Helene Binet photo: Helene Binet S3 Silicon and Software Systems South County Business Park 18 Dublin This 5500sqm office building is for a software development company and was designed to accommodate 380 people The building is naturally ventilated, and arranged around a stepped atrium on four floors Conceptually, the building is read as a solid block, reflecting the generic nature of office space, which is carved at the entrance, atrium and auditorium to highlight the importance of these spaces The cut surfaces have a contrasting colour and texture that is extended into the public interior spaces Thus the floors and walls of the atrium and also the ceiling of the reception area are made in precast concrete Floor area/size 9-2001 5400 m² Building costs consultant Structural engineer Services engineer Landscape designer FKL s Bruce Shaw Partnership Malone O'Regan Consulting Engineers McArdle McSweeney Associates Mitchell and Associates Silicon and Software Systems P_Kelly photo: Helene Binet South County Business Park is near Leopardstown Race Course http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 21
photo: Verena Henze photo: Verena Henze 3 Houses Stable Lane, Cambridge Road 1 6 Dublin Conceptually, three simple open-ended tubes define the spatial enclosure of each house Each of these two-storey houses is five metres wide by ten metres deep and contains the same programme: a garage, bedroom, bathroom and storage on the ground floor with the kitchen, dining and living area occupying the single space above The three houses share a four metre deep hard landscaped courtyard to the rear and a communal space to the front Floor area/size 6-1999 300 m² Main designer, FKL s Boyd Cody architects P_Kelly photo: Verena Henze http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 22
photo: Superbass Busáras Store Street D1 Dublin http://enwikipediaorg/wiki/bus%c3%a1ras The national bus terminal of was designed by Michael Scott and his team of young architects and designers between 1945 and 1953 It was built against a background of public opposition which centred on the external appearance, function and excessive cost - over 1,000,000 before completion in 1953 Simultaneously loathed by some of the populace but loved by architectural purists, the building was designed in an International Modern style between A number of the original fixtures and fittings designed by Scott still exist, including terrazzo floor tiles, and large timber wall panels photo: J Nestorius Project is public! 1953 Scott Tallon Walker s Bus Éireann tba http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 23
photo: Alice Clancy photo: Alice Clancy Mews House Morehampton Rd 7 Dublin A renovated Victorian House for the parents sharing a rear garden with a new Mews house for one of the daughters The now grown-up family recently moved out of their long-term family home and wanted these new homes to maintain some sense of continuity with their former lives 2 Intertwined themes run through both homes, those of memory and tectonic expression Their social rituals are given tangible form within the design Typical domestic objects are distorted in material and scale to form a psychological landscape specific to the occupants Construction is expressed directly as the finished product imbuing these two new homes with a powerful, domestic character The Mews house s facade take it's key from the Flemish-bond brickwork walls of the Victorian House, seeking a kind of constructional context with its older brother The unique bonds are the result of separating the Flemish bond into 2 layers, and conceptually situating the home in the space between these 2 layers photo: Alice Clancy 2009 TAKA architects Please respect the privacy of the inhabitants, and only visit this house from the public street http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 24
photo: Declan O'Farrell photo: Declan O'Farrell Sancton Wood Building Military Rd 8 Dublin http://hsqie Overlooking the former Royal Hospital Kilmainham and opposite Hueston Station, the Sancton Wood building is part of the Heuston South Quarter complex A mixed-use development, it boasts approximately 40,000 square metres of office space laid out in five blocks around a central square together with some 343 one, two and three bedroom apartments, and a double-basement car park There will also be a one acre central landscaped square with market facilities, retail outlets, restaurants and leisure facilities The building comprises 92 apartments, commercial units and underground parking The brightly coloured panels are steel storage units 2009 Anthony Reddy & Associates JJ Rhatigan & Co Declan photo: Declan O'Farrell Short walk from Heuston Station or the Irish Museum of Modern Art http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 25
photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Nazar Leskiw Department of Finance Merrio Row 7-9 Dublin This new contemporary office building sits in a highly significant position in the city The fundamental concept of building is rooted in its immediate urban context, relating to St Stephen s Green, the Hugeunot Cemetery and the 18th century Georgian streetscape The building respects the existing street line and makes formal reference to the tradition of set-back and entrance detailing of Dublin's great historic buildings and squares 2007 Grafton architects Office of Public Works Naomi photo: Nazar Leskiw http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 26
photo: Matthias Hanzlik photo: Matthias Hanzlik Clontarf Pumphouse Clontarf Road / Vernon Avenue Dublin 3 Dublin This pumphouse has a distinctive sculptural form on the Clontarf sea front A new, folded-plate structure of reinforced concrete was poured onto the existing two-storey basement of a dilapidated pumphouse The volume is rotated to catch the light and open relationships with the surroundings Its continous, pre-patinated, copper shingle skin is eroded to the east allowing the gathered rain waters to discharge over and stain the shot-blasted concrete (text from Openhouse Dublin 2009) photo: Matthias Hanzlik 2003 depaor architects Matthias_Hanzlik Take the DART from City Centre to Clontarf Road and follow Clontarf Road heading East direction along the waterfront http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 27
photo: Michael Bassett photo: Michael Bassett The Ormond Building Upper Ormond Quay 31/36 07 Dublin The building occupies a long-derelict 'island site' on Ormond Quay, close to the Four Courts and opposite the Dublin City Council Civic Offices The inspiration for the form of the building is drawn from its immediate urban context The challenge was to take the difficult and essentially prosaic speculative office briefing and create a significant building that would maintain the 'ordinary' character, scale and materials of the buildings prevalent along the extended Liffey promenade Particular emphasis was placed on how the building should address the Liffey This façade is divided into two sections, influenced by the scale of the existing urban form and the desire for a balanced proportion Each section is treated in architectural contrast to the other; the face of the eastern section is comprised of a stone frame of columns and beams and the face of the western section is comprised of a stone solid punctured with openings, all seemingly random photo: Tony Hurst Public access unknown! 2009 DMOD s mbassett http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 28
photo: Matthias Hanzlik photo: Naomi Schiphorst The Spire of Dublin O Connell Street Dublin http://wwwthespireie/ 120 metres high and 3 metres in diameter at the base, this tapering monument rises above O Connell Street, breaking above the roof line with as slender and elegant a movement as is technically possible The design is the flagship project of a wider improvement of the centre of s capital city, in particular, O Connell Street It is anchored in the granite below and the surrounding spiral bronze base symbolises s past The Spire is made entirely of stainless steel which has been shot-peened in order to reflect subtly the light falling upon it The monument has been constructed in celebration of s confident future in the third millennium photo: Matthias Hanzlik Project is public! 1998 Structural engineer Ian Ritchie s Arup Dublin City Council Naomi 24/7 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marti_bi/guides/irsko/ 29