Confident new council offices for North Tipp

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / July 21

Local authorities have emerged from the shadows in recent years, commissioning new civic offices for themselves - and the public. In doing so, they have replaced often makeshift and scattered accommodation and made confident statements for the 21st century. The latest to do so is North Tipperary County Council, in partnership with Nenagh Town Council, on a sprawling 14-acre site at the western edge of the county town. It fell to ABK Architects to give physical form to the brief and create a sense of place in an area being rapidly colonised by suburban housing. ABK are no strangers to the design of public buildings. From Paul Koralek's Berkeley Library in Trinity College, one of Ireland's great modern masterpieces (dating from 1967), to Offaly County Council's award-winning Áras an Chontae in Tullamore (2003), they have shown that this is their true mètier.

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