At a glance
Completion Date:
November 2019
Construction Cost:
€20M
No. of Units:
30,000 sq ft
Client:
Diageo
Architect:
RKD Architects
Contractor:
Flynn
Service provided:
Civil / Structural / Mechanical / Electrical
Director:
Martin McGrath / Paul Cassidy
This project comprised the extensive refurbishment of the existing Guinness Powerhouse building to create a new functioning distillery and visitor experience in the heart of Dublin’s St James’s Gate Brewery.
- The Powerhouse is an art deco building constructed in the 1940s.
- The refurbishment included the demolition of existing ground floor RC slab steelwork frame built off the basement slab, to support the pot stills and allow access via a steel grating floor.
- A bespoke curved steel bridge complete with structural glass floor at first floor is provided for a bird’s eye view of the Still House production room.
- To preserve the historic building fabric of the turbine hall, minimal interventions were of paramount importance, thus a lightweight single storey steel and timber structure is provided to form the new cocktail bar within the turbine hall.
- Challenges throughout included the marriage of new forms of construction within an existing structure and providing a visitor experience within a live production facility.
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