The ESB has lodged a planning application with Dublin City Council to redevelop the Fitzwilliam Street site. The design by internationally award winning Grafton Architects and O’Mahony Pike Architects follows from an international design contest to replace their 1965 building designed by Stephenson Gibney &
This entry was a joint entry of Gilroy McMahon with Henry J Lyons and Partners in an international architectural competition to replace the ESB headquarters on Fitzwilliam St.,
The ESB has announced proposals to redevelop its new headquarters on Fitzwilliam Street, with a view to seeking planning permission in spring next year.
According to reports today, the architecture consortium of Grafton Architects and O’Mahony Pike has won the competition to design a new HQ for the ESB.
In 2009 ESB selected a shortlist of ten architectural submissions to proceed to the detailed design stage of the competition for the redevelopment of ESB’s Head Office at Lower Fitzwilliam Street,
The ESB has been working for more than 18 months on a design competition for the redevelopment of its headquarters at Fitzwilliam Square in Dublin.
Three groups of architects, comprising mainly Irish practices, have been chosen to go on to the final stage of the competition to redesign the ESB’s headquarters on Lower Fitzwilliam Street,
State-owned ESB insisted it cannot reveal shortlisted designs for the redevelopment of its controversially-sited headquarters. Scores of entries in a competition to redesign the head office at Fitzwilliam Street in the heart of Georgian Dublin have been whittled down to just three plans.
Fitzwilliam Street once the longest expanse of intact Georgian architecture anywhere in the world was destroyed in the 1960s when the ESB a supposedly responsible semi-state body wantonly demolished twelve of the houses.
Twelve early 19th century Georgian houses that were demolished by the ESB in the early 1960s to build a new headquarters by Stephenson Gibney &
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