Alto Vetro, grand canal docks, dublin
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fair play to them. Does aqua have permission yet? can’t wait to see them coming out of the ground.
how far has monte come? i haven’t been in this area for a while. is there a lift shaft going up yet?
I think the foundation works should be about done now. 3 weeks ago, I seen the form work going up around the RC Columns
I dont know whether aqua has planning but is planned to start 2010!!!!:D
Image is “pending” on Treasury’s website – won’t be long now.
got a quick pic from my phone while passing by on the DART
From yesterdays Irish Times
THE CORE of one of Dublin’s tallest office blocks has started to go up at a rate of three storeys a week in the Grand Canal Dock area of the city. The 15-storey building, Montevetro, will eventually stand 57 metres above the dock, offering uninterrupted views over much of the docklands area.
Treasury Holdings is spending €148 million on the office scheme which will be integrated into the Dart station at Grand Canal Dock. It will have a floor area of 19,509sq m (210,000sq ft) with the average floor offering 1,579sq m (17,000sq ft). Three penthouse floors will each have 650sq m (7,000sq ft) of space.
Apart from direct access to the Dart, the building will have up to 80 car-parking spaces over three basement levels. There will also be parking for bicycles and motorcycles.
Derek Nolan of Treasury Holdings said the radical design of the office building will provide column-free floor space and a flow of natural light. The 11th floor, 50 metres above ground, will also have a south-facing garden terrace, on a fifth of an acre, from which there will be views of Howth Head and across Dublin Bay to the Dublin mountains.
Nolan said they were noticing the popularity of the Grand Canal Dock area among the new media companies, evidenced by Google’s decision to locate there. “We believe that this is down to its central location, its accessibility and transport links and its array of trendy bars and restaurants.â€
HT Meagher O’Reilly and Jones Lang LaSalle will be the joint letting agents.
Will nothing kill this thing?
I thought we were supposed to be in the deepest recession in a hundred years!
All the good stuff all over the city is getting cut, but they’re still beavering away on RetroVetro!!The empire state building was built during the depression or maybe that was the rockefeller centre?
Looks like this will be our depression highlight building wise.
What this building will provide is 20,000 sq m of grade A office space in a well connected location in a building that could be described as clean, modern but uninspiring in architectural terms. It will be snapped up when things improve as will so many of their other locations because as experienced developers they understand what financial services companies and global corporates want in terms of space. Location, transport connections and glass!
How green is this building? Being practically in a DART station is definitely a plus but what about ventalation, natural light, insulation, triple glazing, U values etc.?
is this the montevetro thread too? Cool. Here’s some pics – i thought it was time i did something useful for this site 😉
a few of Alto as well. Pity it was such a grey day, it makes all the various renders of this area over the years from all the various proposals look, well let’s say, misleading.
Very atmospheric, alonso; who says that the Docklands are dull (apart from meteorologically!)?
And, for the record, far from being opposed to all highrise, I think these punctuation marks look pretty well in this location and that the ‘vetri’ site is really not half bad (any further thoughts, gunter?).
PS: why don’t they jazz-up the Waterways site a bit? It’s an interesting wee bldg but it’s so self-effacing that you’d hardly know it was there.
And what about that rebuilt wall? Somebody actually paying attenetion to detail! Whatever next?Hey Alonso
Am I correct in thinking that the core going up in your pictures is not the main “tower element”?
C
BTW nice pics Alonso:)
C
@thebig C wrote:
Hey Alonso
Am I correct in thinking that the core going up in your pictures is not the main “tower element”?I’ll field this one, if you don’t mind 🙂
Yes you would be correct big C, the lift cores are not ‘the main tower element’ and nor, in fact, will there be a ‘main tower element’, because, with RetroVetro, we’re talking ‘slabs’.
One 16 storey slab goes this way and a second 11 storey slab goes that way, it’s going to be tremendous!
. . . . but what really distinguishes the design of RetroVetro from other office blocks is the cryogenics used to straddle the forty year time gap since medium-rise, slab, office blocks last bounded off the architectural drawing boards to blot urban landscapes across the globe.
jeez, it looks like shit in that render… (but at least the sky is blue)
Thanks Gunter!
That pic makes it look fairly bland in a 60’s/70’s way! I seem to remember one render that showed several distinctive setbacks tapering towards the street frontage. Hence, I thought there might be more then 1 core.
C
in that render the tall slab at its Barrow street end to the right, the grey bit, could be lifted straight from Apollo house or its famous cousin Hawkins House or even, and I hate to say this I really do – it’s such a backward cliche – Ballymun…
Depends on what cladding they use if it is Apollo-esque concrete on the top right of a very grainy newspaper pic; then it will look foul after a few years pollution leaches in; however a matt limestone could look really good.
I’m not so negative on slab blocks if done right; the view of Bank of Ireland Block A accross the City always looked good but looking at your typical totalitarian state 1960’s slab hospital block gives a totally different impression of just how dull a rectangular concrete box can be.
If the materials used are of good quality this building has the potential to turn a very constrained site into a very clever use of space.
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