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APARTMENTS AND LICENSED PREMISES
Liffey Street and The Lotts, Dublin
1999-2004
Client:
Fitzgerald Group
Structural/Civil Engineering Consultants:
Molony & Millar
Mechanical & Electrical Consultants:
JAK
Conservation Consultant:
Thomas McGimsey
Photography:
Gerry O’Leary, Ubald Rutar
This project involves the restoration of a protected structure for use as a ‘corner pub’ on the corner of Liffey Street and The Lotts and the construction of apartments over a ‘café bar’ on the adjacent derelict site.
This is an ideal conservation project; the proposed use fitted the atmosphere and fabric of the existing building without any alteration, while, the prospect of a future for the building, allowed for the necessary, and inevitably large, investment in restoration.
On the adjacent derelict site, we have constructed a new building with 7 apartments over the ground floor licensed premises with a basement for the necessary services for the combined old and new pubs. The apartments overlooking the street have a bay window, balconies or a roof terrace to take advantage of the southerly orientation and sneak views of the Liffey through the adjacent buildings
The new building fills the gap between the protected structure and a recent development adjacent, on The Lotts, which has a coffee shop on the ground floor with apartments over. The proposed new pub and café bar together with the existing adjacent coffee bar will reinforce the lively, pedestrian friendly, atmosphere on the North Lotts.
The elevation of the new apartments overhead responds to the ‘laneway’ atmosphere of the North Lotts with an informal arrangement of bay windows, recessed balconies and roof terraces, while the elevation of the retained building turns the corner and makes an appropriately more mannered elevation to the main thoroughfare of Liffey Street.
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