Linkedin One Wilton Park

One Wilton Park, LinkedIn’s new HQ building with LEED platinum sustainability credentials, sits on a prominent site along Dublins Grand Canal, close to Dublin city centre.

One Wilton is the first building to be completed in a new campus designed by Henry J Lyons and developed by IPUT Real Estate. The building sits on a triangular site and is bounded by Cumberland Road, Lad Lane, and Wilton Terrace. The form was developed to sit comfortably into its context whilst responding to the setting of the protected structures nearby. The building’s form reacts to the challenging triangular site by creating floorplates which wrap snakelike around a full height atrium facing onto the canal and a landscaped courtyard garden onto the mews laneway to the rear.

Cover image courtesy of IPUT Real Estate

Client IPUT / LinkedIn
Size 17,405m2
[18,7345 sq ft]
Status Completed 2022
Sector Commercial Workplace
Sustainability LEED Platinum V3, WELL Gold and WiredScore Platinum, BER A3
Image courtesy of IPUT Real Estate.
Image courtesy of IPUT Real Estate.

The massing of the building responds to the site context by stepping down in height from the centre to the edge

The stepped levels create the opportunity for a series of landscaped roof gardens providing extensive outdoor space for the occupants with dramatic views across the canal, city, sea and mountains. At street level the development is surrounded by a series of landscaped courtyards,providing much needed urban greenery, transparency, and interaction between the building and the public realm.

Viewed in the round the building is clad in a uniform, fully glazed facade system, articulated with an array of delicate glass ‘floating’ fins containing copper mesh laminated between the glass layers to add colour, warmth and shade.

Thermal and solar gain modelling informed the facade design. These glazed vertical fins provide both solar protection and a richness in the facade treatment over an efficient high thermal performance glazed envelope which includes both transparent and opaque panels.

The 18m clear span of the office floor offered Henry J Lyons the opportunity to adopt a ‘Townscape’ approach to the fit-out and to workspace planning.

Fixed, larger, and more permanent elements frame views, define circulation and create spaces for people. This infrastructure is overlaid with medium-sized elements: modular, moveable, serviced meeting and collaboration pods that are used to demarcate neighbourhoods. These elements are then populated with flexible and moveable furniture, screens, planting, technology and booths that can adapt and grow to suit the occupants’ needs.

Henry J Lyons has worked with LinkedIn to develop a technical infrastructure that can accommodate rapidly changing workplace technology. Workers interact with the building’s workspaces and facilities through an app, which allows them to book workpoints, meeting rooms, exercise classes and more, creating a working environment is inspiring, future-facing, flexible and efficient; and which places wellbeing, inclusivity and collaboration at its core.

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