Daniel Libeskind
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
"The architectural concept of the Theatre is based on stages: the stage of the Theatre itself, the stage of the piazza, and the stage of the multiple level Theatre lobby above the piazza."
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
The concept of the Grand Canal Square Theatre and Commercial Development is to build a powerful cultural presence expressed in dynamic volumes sculpted to project a fluid and transparent public dialogue with the cultural, commercial and residential surroundings whilst communicating the various inner forces intrinsic to the Theatre and office buildings.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh |
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| early concept model--drawing Courtesy of Daniel Libeskind |
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| Model of Theatre Sections--drawing Courtesy of Daniel Libeskind |
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| Section--drawing Courtesy of Daniel Libeskind |
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| sketch--drawing Courtesy of Daniel Libeskind |
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| floor plan (Theatre)--drawing Courtesy of Daniel Libeskind |
The people
Project Name: Grand Canal Square Theatre and Commercial Development
Location: Dublin Docklands
Address: Grand Canal Square 3, Dublin 2, Ireland
Gross Building Area:
South Office block – 21,092 sq.m / 226,992 sq.ft (including basement)
Theatre – 13,768 sq.m / 148,171 sq.ft (including basement)
North Office block – 33,320 sq.m / 358,590 sq.ft (including basement)
Other Building Details:
South Block – 7 Floors over basement
Theatre – 7 Floors over basement
North Block – 7 Floors over basement
Budget:
Theatre + Commercial – €196M / $269.9M USD
Theatre Budget – € 75M / $101.8M USD
Principal Architect: Stefan Blach
Project Architect & Project Team Leader: Gerhard Brun
Project Team: Feargal Doyle, Patrick Cox, Andreas Baumgärtner, Matthias Rühl, Toralf Sümmchen, Anna Poullou, Guillaume Chapallaz, Nathaniel Lloyd, Jens Jessen, Jens Hoffman, Kaori Hirasawa, Luca Mangione, Anja Bungies and Christian Müller
Services provided by Architekt Daniel Libeskind AG:
Theatre: Building envelope, FOH and Auditorium; RIAI Stages 1-8
Commercial: Building envelope, Lobby & Atrium spaces; RIAI stages 1-4
Starting Date:
2004: Competition, early concept phase Dec.
2006: from RIAI stage 2, under contract with Ramford Limited
Completion Date:
South Block Office –September 2009
Theatre –December 2009
North Block Office – Mid-2010
Client:
Ramford Limited, Chartered Land
Usher House, Main Street
Dundrum, Dublin 14, Ireland
Project Management:
Lafferty Project Management
Usher House, Main Street
Dundrum, Dublin 14, Ireland
Executive Architect: Commercial Buildings; RIAI Stages 4-8
McCauley Daye O’Connell Architects
7 Harcourt Street
Dublin 2, Ireland
Theatre Consultants & Architects: Theatre Back of House; RIAI Stages 4-8:
ArtsTeam (part of RHWL Architects)
Ivory House St Katharine Docks
London E1W 1AT
Quantity Surveyor: Davis Langdon PKS – Dublin
Structural / Civil: ARUP Consulting Engineers – Dublin
Mechanical & Electrical: ARUP Consulting Engineers – Dublin
Acoustic Consultants: ARUP Acoustics – Winchester, UK
Venue Consultants: ARUP Venue Consulting – Winchester, UK
Façade Consultants: Billings Design Associates – Dublin
Lighting Designers: Pritchard Themis – London, UK
Fire Engineers: Michael Slattery Associates – Dublin
Health & Safety: Bruce Shaw Partnership- Dublin
Main Contractor: John Sisk & Son Ltd. – Dublin
Façade Sub-Contractor: Permasteelisa Central Europe (Theatre); Permasteelisa S.p.A (Commercial Buildings)
Principal Materials:
Theatre Volume – Stainless steel rain screen cladding panels on reinforced concrete and steel structure with strips of high performance glazing.
Theatre Glass Curtain – High performance glazing with exposed polyester powder coated pre-fabricated steel box sections.
Commercial Buildings – Low-iron unitized twin skin glazing system with geometric ceramic frit patterns with solar / glare perforated venetian blinds and capped unitized curtain walling with fixed blade louvers.
Photographer: Ros Kavanagh
