Open Learning Ireland – Vacant Spaces Expedition 20th October 2012
Open Learning Ireland – Vacant Spaces Expedition – 20th October 2012
Attending: Gareth Stack, Seb Dooris
We took a walking tour of vacant properties in the city centre, and on the RED LUAS line. To check out, in person, what spaces might be suitable for our February pop-up. Sebastian Dooris took the photos below, which reveal a wealth of potential spaces, both for this and other projects.
1. Point Village Properties
(previously used for Dublin Biennial)
– http://www.pointvillage.ie/contact-us_.aspx
– Developer Harry Crosbie
– Retail 1 – Single big space, left of Odeon
– Retail 4 – (looks previously used for gallery space)
– Retail 5
2. Treasury Holdings Building
(now in NAMA – Grand Canal St, D2)
– Appears to be in use – although now under NAMA
– are units free?
3. Creation Arcade
– between Grafton St and Dawson St, beside Royal Hibernian Shopping Centre
– great location
– several separate units, all disused
– not possible to tell internal state of units
4. CHQ Building IFSC
– lovely building relatively central
– several large ground floor units
– 8 basement units (2 of which are infrastructural)
=> stairway access from ground floor
– might be noise pollution problems
5. No 3 Spencer Dock
– Central bank building on RED LUAS line
– two enormous open spaces, either side of Bank of Ireland
=> on left = one open space (high ceilings)
=> on right => space curving into multiple sub spaces (also high ceilings)
=> would require renting / borrowing 3 meter high office partitions
– estate management – Dan Boyd (estate director)
6. Castleforbes House
– Red LUAS line
– 2 large ground floor rooms – 1 carpeted, 1 hard floor (tiled), low ceilings
– also more space – several doors down in another unit (beside FM104)
7. City Assembly House, South William St
– no idea of feasibility of this one
– amazing georgian building, leased by Irish Georgian society from DCC
– http://www.igs.ie/Programmes/Conservation-Grants/City-Assembly-House-Dublin.aspx
Other Options!
a) Wesley House – site of Skillshare Festival weekend last year
– multiroom space attached to a church
– http://diyskillshare.org/?page_id=13
b) 13 North Great Georges St
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