Emma Curley
Architecture
Urban design
Facilitation

George’s Quay Area Plan

The George’s Quay area occupies a city-centre location on the south bank of the River Liffey. The aim of the Study is to provide a co-ordinated urban design strategy for the future development of the city centre, to ensure that new development interacts positively with its local and the city-wide context and promotes an environmentally and socially sustainable city quarter. The study seeks to enrich the existing public space and street network, create new routes and spaces to enhance the permeability of the area, achieve a greater mix of uses with vitality and diversity and create a sense of place through an appropriate strategy for built form and height.

The ec team as part of Murray Ó Laoire Architects envisaged that this area, “midtown“, has the potential to strengthen the pivotal east - west link between Dublin City Centre and “New Dublin“ (Dublin Docklands), and the north - south connection of the main retail thoroughfares to the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) district across the River Liffey.