Council makes its mark in Limerick suburbia

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2003 / November 27 2003: Council makes its mark in Limerick suburbia

Nobody living in the ordinary two-storey houses at the N22 end of Dooradoyle Road in Limerick could ever have imagined that they would end up with one of the more extraordinary views in Ireland - Limerick County Hall. For the setting of Limerick County Council's new headquarters could hardly be more suburban - on a back road beside a shopping centre, with a McDonalds outlet at one end, a petrol station in the middle and the terraced houses directly opposite. No wonder Bucholz McEvoy's County Hall, with its trademark timber screen, is so startling. But then, it was consciously designed as an iconic public building, yet driven by the same kind of environmental agenda that produced the Fingal County Hall in Swords.

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