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Dominick Hall
Architect:
Cotter & Naessens Architects and Denis Byrne Architects
Award Type:
Irish Architecture Awards
Location:
Dublin
A monumental confident addition to Dublin's north-inner city and to Dublin City Council's social housing portfolio, Dominick Hall is at once familiar and new. As a predominantly 6-storey brick building which forms a street edge, the scheme recalls the rhythm of historic Dominick Street. The brick elevation rises, like a screen, behind which sit private balconies. Beyond this is a raised garden from which residents access their homes, like a terrace of houses with returns. Belgian brick with precast concrete dressings provide the robust form, uniting these new townhouse apartments to 5 family homes along Granby Place. As well as providing much-needed healthy bright homes, serviced by heat pumps, Dominick Hall holds a community centre and new ground-floor shop units, which should return purposeful life to the street again.