‘A lot of designs are too clean’
Helle Søholt set up Gehl Architects with Jan Gehl in 2000. Jan has written a number of books on urban design and had had an academic life before setting up practice at the age of 64.
‘Planners need the confidence to say no sometimes’
Ken Shuttleworth used to work at Foster + Partners before setting up on his own – as Make Architects – in 2004.
1878 – Winning Design for South City Markets, Dublin
Architect: W. & R. Mawson as Lockwood & Mawson
South City Markets takes up an entire block of the city and is surrounded on all sides by a network of small busy commercial streets.
1892 – Fish Market, Dublin
Architect: Spencer Harty
Less elaborate than the wholesale vegetable market across the street, and designed by the City Engineer 1887-1910,
HKR, Make and Gehl to redesign Dublin’s City Markets
A collaborative design team formed by HKR Architects, Make Architects and Gehl Architects has been selected to redesign and redevelop Dublin’s famous City Markets.
Selling the markets area back to the people
There is a lot of knitting going on in north Dublin and the result will be a whole new city fabric.
