Grand Canal Theatre and Commercial Redevelopment

Dublin, Ireland
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Architetti
Studio Libeskind
Sede
Dublin, Ireland
Anno
2010
Client

Ramford Limited, Chartered Land

Building Size
148,171 sq.ft (Theatre, 2,100 seating)
226,992 sq.ft (South Office Block)
358,590 sq.ft (North Office Block)

Joint Venture Partner
Architekt Daniel Libeskind AG, Zurich, with Studio Daniel Libeskind

Structural Engineer
ARUP Consulting Engineers Dublin

MEP Engineer
ARUP Consulting Engineers Dublin

Landscape Architect
Martha Schwartz Partners

Lighting Designer
Pritchard Themis

Contractor
John Sisk & Son Ltd., Dublin

Facade
Billings Design Associates

Executive Architects
MCauley Daye O'Connell Architects

Project Management
Lafferty Project Management

Quantity Surveyor
Davis Langdon PKS

Acoustic Consultant
ARUP Acoustics

Theatre Consultant
Arts Team (part of RHWL Architects)

Cladding Consultant
Offices and Theater BOH Facade: Permasteelisa Group

Awards
2010 – IAA Annual Prize, 2010 – Real Estate Awards – Best European Scheme
2009 and 2010 – BREEAM Excellent certification for the Grand Canal Square Office buildings.

Located on the Dublin waterfront, the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, formerly the Grand Canal Theatre, is a 2,000-seat theater at the heart of a multi-use complex conceived for by the City of Dublin as part of a plan to revitalize its docklands.  Studio Daniel Libeskind completed the theatre in 2010 and an office complex called the Grand Canal Harbour development a year later.

The theater overlooks a public plaza designed by Martha Schwartz Associates.  Like a grand outdoor lobby, the plaza invites the public to view the soaring glass façade of the theater much like a glass curtain, which tilts back in space in diagonal pleats. The public can gaze into its Piranesian interior of horizontal ramps and diagonal pilotes.

The design concept for the theater is, in fact, stages—the theater’s ‘real’ stage and the plaza as another, equally real but more provisional and changing stage.  At night, when the second floor lobby of the theater is crowded with theater-goers and the theater’s tilting façade and plaza are illuminated, the latter ‘stage’ offers a particularly dramatic experience.

The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre is flanked on the street side by two office buildings designed by Libeskind.  The two office blocks comprising the commercial development provide sustainable and sophisticated work environments.

“The opening of Daniel Libeskind’s new Grand Canal Theatre, a razzle dazzle production in its own right, threatened to upstage the gentle ballet on the building’s main stage. With its dramatic, four story glass facade, sharply angled roof line, and turbulent diagonal lines, the debut of Libeskind’s latest creation was a major cultural happening for Dublin…” – Fast Company (March 2010)

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