new OPW hq in Trim
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OPW gets green light for Trim headquarters
The Irish TimesFull planning permission has been granted to the Office of Public Works (OPW) for a new decentralised headquarters building on a greenfield site in Trim, Co Meath. There was no appeal against the decisions by Meath County Council and Trim Town Council to approve the project, which is estimated to cost about €30 million. The OPW has selected Mullingar-based Bennett Construction Ltd as the preferred tenderer on a client-led, design-build basis, and it is anticipated that a contract will be signed before the forthcoming general election. The four-storey building, which has been designed by an OPW architectural team headed by Pat Boyle, has a circular plan with a full-height atrium and a civic plaza in front. It will be naturally ventilated for environmental reasons. The brief for an in-house architectural competition among OPW architects in 2004 required that the building would be “an exemplar of all that is best in modern office design environments and sustainable building techniques”.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/0215/1170364516805.html
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http://www.unison.ie/meath_chronicle/pictures.php3?ca=38&pi=419238&issue_id=15085 -
New headquarters of the OPW in Trim being developed by bennett construction. The architect of the project in Anthony Reddy and Associates. The circular building is a great design!!! A building to be proud of in any architects portfolio. Have a few renders:D:D:D
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Hmmm… I seem to be looking at a football stadium where they have forgot to include the pitch.
€30 Million being spent on one element of a decentralisation programme that’s now being abandoned? Wonderful.
“sustainable building techniques” – glass, concrete, and steel – on a green-field site? Indeedy…
Still maybe they can use as interpretive centre as to why Martin Cullen permitted the monstrosity of a hotel adjacent to Trim Castle’s walls… Or failing that, a refugee centre :rolleyes:
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Great building, surely should’ve been in Dublin city though, looks very similar to new Courts complex in the Phoenix Park though…what’s the stuff around it?
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@SunnyDub wrote:
Great building, surely should’ve been in Dublin city though, looks very similar to new Courts complex in the Phoenix Park though…what’s the stuff around it?
I think its grass and trees
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Muck.
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Hmmm – there’s a real 1990s something-for-everyone approach to this isn’t there. Sadly no overarching concept save the doughnut. The first elevation is nothing short of chaotic.
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And how many people do you reckon will leave Dublin for this place?
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How is this sustainable?,certainly not the materials, unless its the obligitary copper box can be melted down and reused?, Its built on a green field site, has enormous solar gain to the south that will have to be mechanically cooled and even more glass to the north that will leak heat. Go down the road to Navan to see the Credit Union by paul Leech to see a truly sustainable building. Ya its muck.
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And so near public transport too…
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I don’t understand why shit buildings like the one above are getting such coverage on archiseek, I really don’t see the value of publishing it.
O’Donnell Tuomey’s fantastic new East Wall community centre is nearly finished, why isn’t there a thread on that?
shanekeane… can I ask what do you do? what is your interest in the world of urbanism, architecture and planning? you obviously have no real architectural background. -
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Will do Paul, as soon as I get a chance to go down and get some photos.
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@johnny21 wrote:
New headquarters of the OPW in Trim being developed by bennett construction. The architect of the project in Anthony Reddy and Associates. The circular building is a great design!!! A building to be proud of in any architects portfolio. Have a few renders:D:D:D
this scheme was an invited “competition” to Contractors. Effectively it was a fee bid dressed up as a competition. Bennetts were no doubt the lowest. The building was in fact totally designed by the OPW prior to the bids being invited – Reddy’s were part of Bennett’s consortium and had little, if anything to do with what you see. the 3d’s (and those aren’t reddy’s BTW) were shamelessly included in the bid requirement for marketing. I’m surprised Reddys haven’t pointed it out – maybe they like the design!
I remember in college being told to design a triangular, an octagonal and a circular building at some point during the 7 years. The point being so that we could realise how impractical and uneconomical these forms are and never try them again.
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