Project Description
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, founding partners of Grafton Architects, are the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates and the winners of the 2020 RIBA Gold Medal.
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
The vision for the City Library will be a meeting place for both people and ideas. It will be a place where people can learn, create and participate. It will house contemporary library collections and spaces for reading, listening, watching, playing, researching or thinking. The brief comprises 11,500sqm of Library space including an Auditorium, Music Hub, Education Centre, Intercultural Centre and Retail areas.
In any era of civilisation, to make a library is a gift to citizens and real belief in the future. To make a 21st century city library is to make an Imagination Hub; a place for the democratic gathering of citizens, to provide a facilitator of creative Life.
The City Library, set beside the existing Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane will be at the heart of this dynamic cultural quarter at Parnell Square. The Gallery is acknowledged as one of the most significant city galleries in Europe. Through its diversity of programmes it is a major contributor to the cultural vibrancy of Dublin and to the city’s reputation as a leading European cultural capital city.
Project Credits:
Project: Parnell Square Cultural Quarter
Architects: Grafton Architects.
Conservation Architect: Shaffrey Architects
Structural and Civil Engineering: ARUP
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering: ARUP
Quantity Surveyors: KSN