HKR Receive Planning Permission for Dublin’s €750m Northern Quarter Development

HKR Architects (HKR), the international architecture and design practice today announced that the firm’s design for the regeneration of Dublin’s Northern Quarter has received planning permission from Dublin City County Council. The Northern Quarter incorporates the area of Dublin City Centre bounded by Henry Street, O’Connell Street, Abbey Street and Liffey Street. The development represents a €750m investment and will see Dublin’s north inner city become a prime retail location.

The project is a mixed-use urban development that will integrate retail, residential, leisure and hotel & spa facilities. The plan, which is being led by Arnotts Department Store, includes the transformation of the Northern Quarter of Dublin and the re-creation of Prince’s Street to a fully engaged urban street and pedestrian thoroughfare. This will become Dublin’s premier shopping street incorporating a new public square at the centre. A major element of the development is the inclusion of 189 apartments. These will act as a catalyst for further residential development in the heart of the city.

HKR’s design for this project recently received an award for best European Retail Regeneration Project at The EG Retail Awards, MAPIC in Cannes. This award coupled with the granting of planning permission demonstrates that the Northern Quarter project will make a major contribution to the regeneration of Dublin’s city centre. It recognises that the project is sustainable, respects the quality of the built environment in the wider community and that, over the life of the development, it is sufficiently flexible to respond to changing demands and patterns in retailing.

Jerry Ryan, Managing Director of HKR, said, “This is one of the largest regeneration projects to be undertaken in Dublin’s city centre and is an exciting and challenging project for HKR. The granting of planning permission recognises our leading edge international design capability and HKR’s ethos of design and commerciality living together. It is testament to the unique and transferable skill-set that the team at HKR has developed both nationally and internationally in urban regeneration.”

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