RIAI | Irish Architecture Awards

Citation

Dublin - Over £100,000

The Irish Financial Services Centre (IFSC) is probably one of the most significant commercial inner city developments undertaken in Dublin, all the more so since it is on the north side of the River Liffey. The IFSC is the flagship of the Custom House Docks development.

Three of the four blocks comprising the IFSC the West, North and South Blocks, each in itself a capacious building, are now completed; although work on the inner or East Block has not yet commenced. The public image of the complex is now realised - a powerful trio on the streetscape, having a calm self-confidence.

There is now a broad radial sweep of buildings, in a representative exhibition of modern Irish architecture, as a backdrop to the Custom House. Within this backdrop, IFSC is unreservedly a building of the modern movement. It carries its height, by manner of massing of forms, setbacks and choice of materials. It is a building which is truly of our time, in both design and technology.