Cadenza Earlsford Terrace
Cadenza’s facade employs a frame-less and mullion-less skin of glass, veiled by a stone matrix that envelopes the building.
Cadenza is a new 10,550m² office development situated on a prominent corner site at the junction of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road extending to Hatch Lane to the east. The building’s form rises to seven storeys with a delicate rhythmic limestone veil wrapping the primary façades and corner junction, reflecting the context with the quality of the stone and the vertical rhythm. This veil separates and changes in height to echo the previous context while maintaining an appropriate scale along Earlsfort Terrace.
The three-dimensional stone matrix forms a pattern that adds a visual interest to the streetscape below and is suspended above the large curved and independently supported glass screens that enclose the entrance hall. The visibility and quality of the design of the main lift bank within the entrance hall was a key project requirement, to fulfill the concept design for activation, connectivity, and ease of access through the building. The position of the lifts and centrally located service core provide direct links to all floors. The typical office floors from first to sixth are arranged around this central core to provide open, flexible space for the office users.
The development embraces its surroundings and offers back to the community an enhanced development that demonstrates what can be achieved with dedication, creativity, and attention to detail through team collaboration.
The set-back upper fifth and sixth floor levels are enclosed with a transparent perimeter skin of full height frame-less glazing. The transparency is countered by the depth, warmth and texture provided by the golden anodized finish of the diamond shaped vertical fins that frame the corners, whilst offering solar shading at the required orientations. Extensive stone paved terraces on these upper floors provide the office user with an additional amenity with panoramic views over the city and Dublin Mountains enhancing the office space as a place of work.
With the innovative wide spanning structural columns arranged at the perimeter of the floor plates and full perimeter glazing, the internal space is flexible and generally column free, allowing views of the landscaped courtyards below and the wider external environment.
