The Landmark Building-James Joyce Street by HKR Architects
HKR architects has designed a building that became landmark civilian building, named James Joyce Street, which serves the building mixed-use, the project of 9.400 m2 of the which includes an Art Center, Ireland’s Largest Dance Center, Creche, Retail and Enterprise Units, and 65 Private apartment.
Description from the Architect :
James Joyce Street, also known as Liberty Corner, is a new landmark civic building located in the North East Inner City Regeneration area in the centre of Dublin. It is a complex mixed use project of 9,400m2 which includes an Art Centre, Ireland’s largest Dance Centre, Creche, Retail and Enterprise Units, and 65 Private apartment built as a design and built contract. The building make up an entire city block and form the new urban edge of Foley Park, James Joyce street and Foley Street.
The development of Liberty Corner is the product of a public Private Partnership between Dublin City Council and the developers. The cultural elements of the project are run Dublin City Council since the building was completed in mid 2005.
The municipal art building houses ‘dance Space’ the new home for The Association of Professional Dancers of Ireland. The Building contain 7 world standard dance studios with 7 metre clear ceilings and carefully considered natural lighting through full height picture windows and ‘Reglit’ glass panels. It also contains teaching spaces as well as a cafe/coffee shop at ground floor.
The Arts Centre is known as ‘The Lab’ and contains a large double height ground floor exhibition space, large flexible studio spaces, ’specific artists’ studios and administration facilities.
The mixed, one, two and three bed 65 private residential apartments surround a first floor landscaped courtyard. The courtyard area is shared by the cultural functions of the building and this provides additional life and vitality to this often ill conceived but fundamental amenity of urban living.
The apartment are built of brick incorporating brick returns to balconies in order to express the solidity and quality of the material. The public elements of the building are made of rich Jura limestone with large glazed panels expressing the large 7 metre high dance studios and cultural spaces within. The ground floor enterprise and retail areas are clad in dark Kilkenny limestone which provides a durable and timeless quality to the building base and public area.
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