10 Molesworth Street
Setting a benchmark for Dublin city-centre street based office design, 10 Molesworth Street is a project of restraint and of craft. Completed in 2018, it achieved the highest LEED platinum rating.
Developed by IPUT, this six-story corner building is a user-focused response to the remarkable context in which it sits in the heart of Dublin’s Georgian and commercial core. The building is a place of interaction at ground level with the street, at upper levels with the city’s silhouette and has a heavily landscaped garden at its heart. The project through its articulated facade, enduring quality of materials and its detailing has added enormously to the civic character of Molesworth Street and South Frederick Street.
The site is located on the corner of Molesworth Street and South Frederick Street and forms part of a vista which terminates with the seat of government at Leinster House. The L-shaped block is carved out to provide natural light to lower-level accommodation via lightwells and a glazed atrium. At roof level, terraces provide generous roof gardens for occupants allowing panoramic views of the city. It means the design uses the city as backdrop for light filled work spaces and landscape, both close-us and distant for spaces of interaction.The elevations are subdivided into regular bays that reflect the scale, proportions of buildings in the area but the way materials are designed to meet achieves an abstract quality and high environmental performance that is unashamedly contemporary.
Awards
Building of the Year Awards 2018
Large Office Project of the Year
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