The Irish Stock Exchange [Euronext]
Vertical and horizontal circulation radiate from a new atrium at the heart, in a project that demonstrates a commitment to the retrofitting of the city.
The courtyard off Foster Place was a lost space in Dublin’s historic core. Originally a guarded entrance to the Parliament House, the Palladian-fronted Armoury Building has been given a new life by Henry J Lyons. The commission has unlocked an architecturally significant part of College Green by the design of a light-filled international digital trading hub that has brought together the dispersed activities of the Irish Stock Exchange.
The project brief was to extend their existing home in the Miller & Synes’ six-bay Italianate Palazzo building fronting onto Anglesea Street (1878) and to link this with an older Armoury Building by Frances Johnson (1811) onto College Green. Both buildings had awkward additions and both were landlocked but lightwells and a series of gardens now punctuate the whole, revealing new spatial connections between and within the existing historic fabric and providing innovative top-lite workspaces.
Awards:
Building of the Year Awards 2021
Conservation Project of the Year
Building of the Year Awards 2021
Medium Office Project of the Year
Fit Out Awards 2020
Conservation of the Year Irish Stock Exchange
Irish Construction Excellence Awards 2020
Commercial Under €10m
[34,440 sq ft]
