€100M Station Project For Dublin
Award winning, international design practice Austin-Smith: Lord has secured planning consent for a new €100m railway station in Dublin.
The strategic infrastructure plans have been approved by An Bord Pleanála, the Irish planning authority, for a 12-storey air rights office and a new concourse above Tara Street in the city centre based on a somewhat taller design by Adamson Associates developed with Irish Rail Architects.
Austin-Smith: Lord is working in conjunction with engineering consultancy AECOM, Irish Rail Architects and Córas Iompair Éireann, a publicly-owned public transportation company in Ireland.
At 50 metres high, the new building will be just nine metres shorter than Ireland’s first sky-scraper, Liberty Hall, which is directly across Dublin’s river Liffey.
The existing station is already one of Ireland’s busiest, serving 25,000 passengers a day. Demand is expected to grow as the number of trains entering the station increases and the new building will be able to cope with a passenger rate of 14,500 per hour at peak times.
The plans include the demolition of the existing structure and the construction of a new 20,990sqm development that will retain the 19th century railway arches and platform walls. All work will be phased to keep the station operational throughout.
Access to the new station will be from Tara Street and George’s Quay, with 14,990sqm of offices on 10 levels over the station concourse.
Richard Cronin, a Director at Austin-Smith: Lord, said: “The work at Tara Street station forms a crucial part of the infrastructure development plans for the rail network in central Dublin.
“The new concourse will provide passengers with a vastly improved access point on the Liffey in the centre of the city.
“The new station will be a striking addition to the city’s skyline but one that will sit comfortably alongside the existing structures.”
Austin-Smith: Lord has extensive experience of major railway redevelopments, including Liverpool Lime Street, Oxford Road in Manchester. The practice is currently working on the £185 million Wolverhampton Interchange project.
Posted: 23/02/2010 09:51:53
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