| Project Name: | Citibank | | | | City: | Dublin 1 | | Country: | Ireland | | Architect: | Scott Tallon Walker | | Contractor: | Pierse Contracting Ltd | | Year: | 1999 | | Category: | Commercial | | System: | Structawall | | | | Details: | This office building was designed for Citibank to co-locate in one premises their expanding front office and global business support operations.
The main entrance is defined externally by a splayed full height planar glazed wall, which creates a major external civic space and provides a visual internal link on the corner of North Wall Quay and Commons Street, giving the building and entrance a prime focus on the River Liffey and Quay frontage.
The system adopted was GME Structawall and designed by Architectural Aluminium as a stainless steel tensioned structure with Pilkington's Suncool 63/45 double glazed units supported by polished stainless steel cantenary Structure suspended from the roof and braced laterally from the floors. |
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