Donnybrook House
The quality of the existing architecture at Donnybrook House offered an opportunity to reuse and regenerate an unloved building into a high performance mixed use development that demonstrates an environmentally sustainable alternative to demolition and rebuild.
Donnybrook House is an early modernist retrofit for Dublin. The project demanded the carefully controlled conservation and expansion of a hitherto unloved brutalist concrete office building into a high-specification mixed-use development. The client U+I raised expectations in Ireland as to how to avoid demolition of much of Dublin’s late 1970s building stock and with Henry J Lyons commitment, demonstrated what could be achieved when design and construction prowess combine to bring new life to old structures.
The extensive retrofit maintained the existing structure and facade, upgraded the building in line with technical and regulatory standards, exceeding best practice guidelines with minimal carbon impact. The completed building achieves LEED Platinum and a B1 Energy Rating.
[91,493 sq ft]
