2006 – ‘Suas’, Dublin
Hair-brained idea for an “iconic” tourist attraction that would run from Dublin’s Docklands west to Heuston Station – destroying views of some of Gandon’s iconic Dublin works.
Hair-brained idea for an “iconic” tourist attraction that would run from Dublin’s Docklands west to Heuston Station – destroying views of some of Gandon’s iconic Dublin works.
In 1999 city architect Jim Barrett commissioned David Mackay, of Barcelona architects MBM to design a building for the site,
Speculative design for an eco-living development in Dublin called Bifrost. Arranged as a continuous unbroken building, the building is split up into a series of different areas that offer a total of 186,000 square meters of high density mixed-use space.
The site for the project is located on the south bank of the Liffey Quays in Dublin’s Docklands.
Forbes Quay is a residential “perimeter style” development with “diagonal cuts” to give visual access to the historic Grand Canal Chimney and visual links to the River.
Unbuilt proposal for a Ritz-Carlton hotel to be located directly behind the Convention Centre Dublin.
The site is located on a high profile site along the banks of the River Liffey.
According to the architects “Conceptually, the towers originate from a single block ‘split by tectonic forces’ which open up a central ‘crystalline’ chasm.