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Scott Tallon Walker Architects
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Client List
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Services
Urban Design
Point Village, Dublin, Ireland PricewaterhouseCoopers Headquarters - Spencer Dock, Dublin, Ireland
All of the practice’s schemes are informed and shaped by our Urban Design section who draw from wide
International experience and have completed a number of major Urban Design studies including Point
Village development in Dublin’s North Docklands.
Architecture
Enterprise Ireland offi ce fi t-out, Ireland
Interior Design
The Scott Tallon Walker Interior Design Team combine imaginative design ides with colour, art and
practical use of space. Our approach is to not only integrate our interiors with the ethos and dynamics
of our client, but equally with the potential of the building and its services.
Scott Tallon Walker’s core activity is the design of buildings. It’s reputation is built on the delivery of
exceptional design quality in virtually every general and specialist fi eld of design. Experience includes
healthcare, commercial, education, scientifi c, residential, transport, communications, administration
and many others.
Masterplanning
We prepare strategies that seek to maximise the site potential for development. We consider the
surrounding context - physical, social and economic - working collaboratively with others, to provide vision
that can be delivered. Our masterplanning experience covers all development sectors, from small urban
infi ll to large scale campuses. Eastpoint Business Park, for example, has been successfully transformed
from dereliction in 1995 into a 200,000sqm highly attractive business location today.
East Point Business Park - Dublin, Ireland
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Conservation
Intense research and appropriate design and detail inform our approach to historic buildings. In particular
we have established a reputation for sensitively combining the architecture of today with that of the past
as illustrated in the Gate Theatre project above. We also have considerable experience of sensitively
upgrading late 20th Century buildings to provide new uses and new energy performance.
Gate Theatre - Dublin, Ireland
One of the core principles of the practice is the integration of Art and Architecture. Close collaboration
with a wide variety of emerging and established artists has enabled Scott Tallon Walker to produce a
considerable number of projects that have been enriched and enhanced by the incorporation of art into
the working environment and into the wider public realm.
Art in Architecture
East Point Business Park - Dublin, Ireland
Refurbishment
DKIT School of Informatics & Creative Arts, Ireland Commissioners of Irish Lights Headquarters, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Scott Tallon Walker Architects have extensive experience of advising Clients in the appraisal of the benefi ts
of refurbishment over new build or vice versa and also in comparing the merits of the different levels of
refurbishment, both in vacant or live occupied building environments. Our successful completion of FAS
Training Centres illustrate this experience.
Sustainability
The promotion of sustainability and energy effi cient buildings within our practice is one of the key principles
of our philosophy and design approach. The realization of responsible, dynamic environmental design
is, we believe, central to the creation of healthy, uplifting buildings and environments that benefi ts us all
as a global community.
Commercial
Offi ces
“It was very important to us in embarking on this project that we would end up with not just a landmark building but also one which would be practical
in terms of its functionality and design (including interior fi tout design) and built to the highest standards. All of this was achieved to everyone’s
satisfaction within a very tight timeframe and, most importantly within budget”
- Tom O’Connor, A&L Goodbody
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PricewaterhouseCoopers Headquarters
Value Client Area
£79 Million
Spencer Dock Development Company
47,500m2
Our brief from Clients, Treasury Holdings, was for the design of a
signature headquarters building to house leading accountancy fi rm,
PricewaterhouseCoopers and to include additional accommodation
suitable for sub-letting for single or multiple tenancies, the balance
being eventually occupied by Fortis Bank.
The building is planned on a north south axis, comprising a seven
storey north block and an eight storey south block. The north
block is designed in a u-shape, facing west around a landscaped
courtyard, while the south block is sub divided internally by a full
height landscaped atrium on an east west axis. Both Blocks are
connected by glazed link bridges at upper levels.
The plan form composition permits maximum natural daylight to all
offi ce areas while the main atrium, with its stepped fl oor plates to
the upper levels and glazed planar end walls, all combine to create
a lively transparency within the building. The terracotta coloured
horizontal brise soleil to the PricewaterhouseCoopers facades and
the white suspended brise soleil to the Fortis Bank facades combine
to form a distinctive yet unifi ed interface and corporate identity to
both building occupants. The core towers with their sloped roofs
provide further distinctive identity to the building.
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A&L Goodbody Solicitors
Client Area
A&L Goodbody Solicitors
11,000m2
Commercial Offi ces
The A&L Goodbody Solicitors building is a purpose built
headquarters. The façade to the river was originally designed to be
part of a continuous and connected street façade, resulting in two
granite clad staircase cores fl anking the shaded south façade, give
the building a clear visual separation from its neighbours.
At Ground and Fifth Floor the glass is set back to create a loggia
and roof top terrace, overlooking the river. Internally, ground fl oor
meeting rooms, conference facilities and dining facilities for both
visitors and staff, overlook a central atrium garden. Mature bamboos
grow towards the pyramidal skylight with its delicate cable structure,
6 stories above.
A series of commissioned works of art are exhibited to atrium
circulation routes at each level, giving a unique vibrancy to the heart
of the building, enjoyed by all who work there.
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Commercial Offi cesA&L Goodbody Solicitors
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Citi
Client Area
Citi
34,744m2
Commercial Offi ces
This headquarters office building was designed for Citi to
accommodate the expanding front office and global support
operations of the company. The design aim was to create a bright
modern working environment, achieved by arranging the fl oor plates
around two full-height, internal landscaped atria thereby maximising
natural daylight to all areas.
The design of the atria spaces forms a major internal focal point
within the building. The main entrance and reception to the building
are located through the main atrium with both atria linked horizontally
at ground fl oor level and both containing vertical circulation via lifts
and stairs. The sense of movement and transparency within the
space is achieved by glazed-clad lift shafts, open staircases and
interconnecting bridges at each fl oor level.
The main entrance is defi ned externally by a splayed full height
planar glazed wall to the main atrium which creates a major external
civic space.
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Citi Innovation Lab
Client Area
Citi
750m2
Citi required a fi tout of the an existing ground fl oor offi ce space to
house a newly launched department within the Citi group called the
‘Citi Innovation Lab’. The public face of this department is vital to
its function and therefore the fi tout required attention to detail and
effi cient implementation of the global design strategy for the branch.
The project involved the implementation and launch of the new ‘Citi
Innovation Lab’ into the existing Dublin Citi Head Offi ce. This required
a refurbishment of 750 m2 of existing offi ce space and service core to
contemporary standards and to fall within the global branding concept
design, as set out by the client.
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Stockyard Offi ce Development
Client Area
Crosbie Property
3,500m2
The plan was based on a simple design concept of a main circulation
area running across the building in an east west direction from one
stair core to the other. If modular offi ces are to be incorporated then
they will run along the northern and southern facades with open
plan in the middle of the fl oor plates. On the fourth and fi fth fl oors
the circulation route becomes smaller as does the offi ce space
provided with the omission of fl oor space to the rear (north) of the
building. The sixth fl oor is further reduced as a result of the set back
at this level. Vertical circulation is provided via two staircores, one
on each gable wall.
The north elevation is stepped by means of a terrace at fourth fl oor
level. This reduces massing toward the residential units on Abercorn
Road and establishes a contextual empathy with the two storey
houses. The curved outline of fi fth and sixth fl oor offi ce space partly
cantilevers over the fourth fl oor terrace.
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Webworks Innovation Centre
Client Area
Howard Holding Plc
5,000m2
Commercial Offi ces
This 5,000 square meter regional Innovation Centre provides small
starter unit offi ces, sharing reception, waiting, cafe and meeting
rooms. The four/fi ve storey over basement building is entered off
Eglinton Street by forming an opening, with views to the atrium, in
the existing limestone wall which is retained along with other historic
features such as railings and gates.
The atrium is the heart and focal point for all the circulation routes
within the new Webworks building, connecting all levels with open
access accommodation stairs and maximising the natural light.
The open plan areas are broken up and are arranged to allow the
circulation routes around the atrium to enjoy views to the outside.
Attractive highly visible breakout spaces are provided at each level,
with views over the atrium.
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McCann FitzGerald Headquarters
Value Client Area
£43Million
McCann FitzGerald Solicitors
11,711m2
McCann FitzGerald Solicitors have a commitment to providing the
highest quality legal services both in Ireland and abroad. Scott
Tallon Walker Architects were chosen, following a limited design
competition, to create a new Headquarters Offi ce building, providing
the best possible working environment capable of responding
to the immediate and future needs of a dynamic corporate legal
practice.
The highly glazed twin-wall façade allows maximum natural light into
the generous work areas. This ‘smart –skin’ responds automatically
to changes in imposed thermal loads providing thermal protection
and solar control, helping the building cope with Ireland’s ever
changing weather and light conditions. This façade automation,
together with the building’s sophisticated mechanical systems,
reduces raw energy demand and creates a consistently comfortable
and regulated working environment ensuring that the building is a
show case for sustainable design in Ireland.
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The client is a statutory government body operating and maintaining
the most technologically advanced Aids to Navigation around the
coastline. A conscious decision was made at an early stage to design
a landmark modern structure, refl ecting the ethos of the client, and
also to provide a counterpoint to the various historic structures
nearby, themselves prominent landmark buildings.
The enclosing façade is a sophisticated glazed twin-wall system,
maximising natural light, panoramic views both out from, and into, the
building and yet providing sustainable environmental control over the
internal offi ce space. A distinctive central lantern provides abundant
natural light into the building’s core and the photovoltaic panels that
skirt the recessed second fl oor level, nod politely, to the highly evolved
functional navigational aids that the client is responsible for.
Commissioners of Irish Lights Headquarters
Value Client Area
£18 Million
Commissioners of Irish Lights
5,500m2
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The architectural concept for the Department of the Environment
is a simple one, a sustainable building for the twenty fi rst century
using two curved and sliding interlocked building forms to create
a sheltering and protective image while cutting into the hillside to
integrate with its gently sloping green fi eld site.
The building uses a wood chip boiler as primary heat source, is
naturally ventilated uses solar water heaters for domestic hot water,
has a green sedum roof, green permeable car parking, uses grey
water to minimise water consumption and has an exposed eco-cem
concrete slab acting as a heat sink which is cooled at night with
automatic opening high level hopper windows.
Department of the Environment Offi ces
Value Client Area
£13.7 Million
Department of the Environment
6585m2
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The scheme consists of four separate four storey offi ce blocks
organised about a central glazed pedestrian spine. Major vertical
circulation is located in the atrium and serves a system of bridges
linking the offi ce blocks. The central spine unites the buildings into
one readily identifi able development and also provides a clearly
defi ned circulation route across the site. The fi rst offi ce block is
curved on plan while the remaining three are rectilinear in form. The
fi rst blocks provide accommodation for Fingal County Council. The
remaining two blocks are speculative offi ce units. The buildings
are clad with buff coloured terracotta cladding and grey aluminium
curtain walling system. Cedar brise-soleil soften the elevations on
the southeast and southwest facades. The building is energy effi cient
using passive and active environmental control technology. Windows
are user operable and the offi ce space is naturally ventilated. A
mixed mode displacement ventilation system, coupled with a heat
exchanger, provides fresh or warm air through the raised fl oor.
Exposed concrete ceiling panels utilise thermal mass cooling to
avoid the need for air conditioning.
Fingal Civic Offi ces
Value Client Area
Commercial Offi ces
£36 Million
Fingal County Council
16,377m2
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East Point Business Park
Client Area
East Point Development Group
137,000m2
East Point Business Park is located on the edge of Dublin’s
Docklands. The challenges for Scott Tallon Walker included managing
the environmental and landfi ll gas issues, master planning the 13.75
Ha (34 Acre) site as well as designing all of the 34 buildings.
The design concept for East Point is one of cost effective, fl exible
and well serviced buildings designed as sculptural elements within a
heavily landscaped environment. Each building is different in form yet
all use the same limited palette of materials - Irish limestone, glass
and aluminium. The campus setting, on-site telecom exchange and
hard-wired IT backbone all marry to provide the occupants with an
environment that promotes synergy, interaction and growth.
Flat concrete slabs, generous ceiling and fl oor voids, as well as
high levels of insulation and solar shading all combine to create an
effi cient building system. The refi ned detailing of the bespoke STW
designed curtain walling system, married with the varying forms of
brise soleil all create a precision in assembly that refl ects the quality
of the companies that now occupy the development. The British
Council for Offi ces has located events at the park as part of its 1998
and 2006 Annual Conferences.
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Commercial Offi cesGE Money
Client Area
GE Money
2,800m2
GE Money wished to develop a building to house their expanding
European Customer Services Centre. The building is mainly a call
centre resulting in a heavy cooling load, normally requiring full
air-conditioning. The client had expressed an interest in a low-energy
building.
Scott Tallon walker rose to the challenge by designing on the principle
of using the mass of the structure for thermal cooling. Designed on
three levels around a large central garden atrium, the reinforced-
concrete frame and precast fl oor slabs with smooth coffered soffi ts
forming the ceiling act as the thermal fl y wheel.
Ventilation is by displacement with heat recovery through an air/air
heat exchanger. The building won the Best corporate workplace
award from the British Council for Offi ces and the innovation in M&E
services award from the ACEI for the low energy design strategy.
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Tower 42 Remodelling
LocationClient
25 Old Broad Street, London
McCann FitzGerald Solicitors
Tower 42 (NatWest Tower) was originally home to the National
Westminster Bank. The building is now multi-tenanted and
comprises Grade A offi ce space over 41 fl oors and a Michelin Star
restaurant on the 42nd Floor.
Scott Tallon Walker Architects were commissioned to provide a
high quality fi t-out and interior design service for McCann FitzGerald
Solicitors on the 38th fl oor of the building.
Offi ces and Meeting Rooms are located at the fl oor perimeter
ensuring maximum use is made of the spectacular views and
abundant natural light. Partitions parallel to the façade are double
glazed with fully glazed doors ensuring light penetration into the inner
circulation zone and secretarial workstations. Photocopy, storage
and server rooms are located in the inner zone, adjacent to the
building core, where natural light and views are not a priority.
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Eircom Network Management Centre
Client Area
Eircom
3,700m2
Commercial Offi ces
The building is the nerve centre from which Ireland’s entire
telecommunications network is monitored. The Network Management
Centre allows network availability to be matched to demand, while
at the same time ensuring speedy identifi cation and resolution
of network problems. In the design of the building, the network
operations centre and the technical support offi ces are expressed
as two distinct elements, and are linked by a glazed reception hall.
A 30m high telecommunications mast on a landscaped mound,
punctuates the resulting T-shaped plan.
The network operations centre forms the north leg of the T-plan.
Enclosed by granite walls, it is virtually windowless for security
reasons. This space is the hub of the network. It is manned around
the clock, and air-conditioned for comfort. A restaurant is located
at ground fl oor under the network operations centre, and a visitors’
gallery/demonstration area overlooks the centre. The technical
support offi ces in the other leg are open-plan and naturally ventilated.
The south façade is fully glazed, and is shaded by brise-soleil and a
colonnade. Six service towers act as ‘buffers’ between the motorway
and the technical support offi ces.
The building is energy-effi cient, using innovative passive and active
environmental control technology. Windows are openable, and the
interior planted garden atria create a stack effect which channels
warm air out of the building. A mixed-mode displacement ventilation
system, coupled with a heat exchanger, provides fresh or warm
air through the raised fl oor. Exposed concrete ceiling panels utilise
thermal-mass cooling to avoid the need for air conditioning.
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Commercial Offi ces
Set in a parkland overlooking the Grand Canal the brief called for
15,200m2 of offi ce space in 6 blocks ranging in size from 3,880m2 to
1,860m2. Each block is designed to accommodate a single tenant
but can be easily subdivided to suit multiple occupancy.
The buildings are arranged to create an architectural vista and ‘gate’
between 3 storey high granite walls leading from the entrance side
with carparking and access roads to the landscaped canalside
area.
The buildings are clad in granite and aluminium curtain walling
purpose designed by Scott Tallon Walker.
Millennium Park
Client Area
Bandenberry
15,200m2
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Civic Offi ces
Client Area
Dublin City Council
20,000m2
Commercial Offi ces
Dublin City Council held an international architectural competition
to complete their headquarters at Wood Quay. The existence of the
phase 1 buildings, completed in 1986, together with the remaining
archaeological artifacts on the site, made this a complex and
challenging brief.
Although the new building has a totally different character from the
original towers, it shares some of their architectural features – the
sheer granite cladding without mouldings, the prismatic geometry,
and the horizontal strip windows. Rather than turning its back on the
towers, the new building steps up towards them, and stretches out
a large wing that fi lls the space between them. The existing towers
are linked by a glazed atrium.
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West Pier Offi ce Development
Client Area
Cosgrave Brothers
13,000m2
Commercial Offi ces
The project at West Pier is located on an unusual site, to the north it
has stunning views of Dublin Bay and to the south a steep 15-20m
high escarpment bounded the site, so effectively is was at the base
of a cliff.
The design maximised the potential of the site providing naturally
ventilated car parking under a roof garden at the base of the cliff,
reducing its dominance over the site while giving optimum views and
orientation to the 12,000m2 of commercial offi ces provided in three
individual but connected blocks.
A natural limestone faced precast concrete panel was used
throughout with stone curved to make the characteristic rounded
form of the front of the buildings. The gables and other in-situ
elements were clad in the same stone, but hand fi xed.
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BSkyB New Contact Centre
Client Area
BSkyB
3,350m2
The development comprised the full “Cat A” and Cat B” fi tout to one
and a half fl oors of the recently complete Burlington Plaza, Block 1
Building for BSkyB, Burlington Road, Dublin 4, which involved the
establishment of a call centre including the partial relocation of their
existing Dublin business units into the building spread over the two
levels with options on expansion to fl oors above and below.
The facility has been designed to accommodate a 330 workstation
call centre with support staff in an open offi ce environment, a
number of cellular offi ces, a training centre, a restaurant and general
recreational breakout tea stations area on each fl oor. The facility
which operates between 7am to 11pm is manned on a fl exitime
shift basis and employs over 800 staff.
The total gross fl oor area of the BSkyB facility is 45,000ft2. Average
occupancy density including meeting, training and restaurant – 6m2
per person.
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Xerox Project Global Offi ces
Client Area
Xerox The Document Company
12,000m2
The complex of three new office buildings and the complete
renovation and extension of the existing Claris building at Ballycoolin
while in use has generated a facility to accommodate approximately
1700 staff for Xerox Europe against a very demanding budget and
programme of occupation.
The three new atrium buildings are stepped in plan and section to
maximise daylight and views. They can each operate on a stand-
alone basis but are linked at fi rst fl oor level to the centre building,
which contains the main entrance, canteen and other shared facilities.
They are designed for dense occupation using motorised windows
for natural ventilation and an exposed concrete slab as a heat sink.
Back-up ventilation is available through the raised fl oor and cooling
from a chilled ceiling installation, making it a uniquely sustainable
combination of natural ventilation and air conditioning.
Xerox Project Global Ballycoolin Innovation - Research & Development:
Use of advanced themal modelling of building air dynamics.•
Stack effect ventilation.•
Large chilled ceiling design.•
Use of themal mass of RC structure.•
Use of automatic motorised windows.•
Sun shading.•
Post tensioned concrete fl at slab design.•
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Bank of New York Mellon
The Bank of New York Mellon Regional Offi ces, Cork, occupies
both fl oors of a new development located a short distance from
Cork’s new airport terminal. The building was selected following a
due diligence process carried out in conjunction with the client on a
number of potential properties in the area. The site has commanding
views of Cork City and the Atlantic Ocean beyond.
The fi t out was carried out in two phases, beginning with the main
Reception area, executive meeting rooms, open plan and cellular
offi ce space. The second phase followed with the completion of
the open plan and cellular offi ce space, meeting rooms, main
Comms room and a staff restaurant. All aspects of the fi t out were
considered from the selection of furniture to the artwork, which was
sourced from a local collective.
The Bank of New York Mellon Regional Headquarters, Dublin, offi ce
fi t-out project occupies fi ve fl oors of a new developer’s shell building
on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin.
Locations
Client
Cork & Dublin - IrelandHarbour Exchange, Canary Wharf, South Quay Plaza, Mastmaker Court - London, UkBank of New York Mellon
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Arthur Street Offi ces - Belfast, BT1, UK
ClientArea
Michael Kelly
1935m2
The site is in a tight urban environment in central Belfast, with listed
buildings to the west and north. The aim of the design was to provide
a modern building to stand alongside the listed Trustee Savings Bank
and the State Building.
Arthur House, with its distinctive white steel-framed structure and
fourth-fl oor pergola, is a dramatic contrast in style, colour and
materials to its listed brick, terracotta and stone neighbours. It
also anticipates the scale and architecture of the proposed Erskine
House on the adjoining site, and it steps down the scale from the
new building to the State Building. The pergola provides a bright
roof terrace, accessed from the building’s fourth fl oor, with dramatic
views across the city.
The structure is entirely steel frame, with pre-cast concrete staircases
set within the structural frame. The structural grid was dictated by
the locations of the original pile foundations, as these were reused
within the new scheme.
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Point Village District Centre
Value Client Area
Point Village is located on a 3.5 hectare site at the most easterly
part of the Dublin Docklands development. The name is taken from
the Point Theatre which occupies a 19th century train terminus on
the site.
The scheme is designed around a major new public square, Point
Square, which is bounded by a shopping and leisure complex, the
reconfi gured Point Theatre and the landmark 130 metre high tower.
It includes a District Centre (with shops, cafes and bars), a multiplex
cinema, 250 bedroom hotel, 10,000m2 of offi ces and a shopping
centre. A core urban ‘place making’ element includes a terminus of
the extended Dublin tram system (the LUAS). This District Centre,
fronting onto Point Square, is designed that the boutique shops,
cafes and bars will animate the square.
£212 Million
Crosbie Property
120,000m2
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Lapp’s Quay Development
Value Client Area
£51.5 Million
Howard Holdings PLC
10,000m2
The 191-bedroom, four-star Clarion hotel occupies the western
block. Inside the hotel a generous atrium space provides open
access to hotel facilities and overhead suspends an array of
sculptures. A glazed bridge lightly spans across Anderson Street
linking the hotel to a popular conference centre.
The 6,900m2 six-storey City Quarter Offi ce building, comprises of
ground fl oor bars and restaurants providing daylong vibrancy to the
boardwalk with fl agship offi ces overhead. A two-level basement
accommodates the hotel’s leisure centre, underground car-parking,
and numerous back-of-house facilities.
The pedestrian timber boardwalk is delicately cantilevered from the
reinstated stone quay wall though the use of a carefully detailed
and refi ned steel framework. This reclaimed landscaped public
realm features ‘Reed pod’ a site specifi c major public sculpture, two
glazed café kiosks, fabric canopies and glass lifts to the basement
below. This creative ‘place-making’ at City Quarter is recognized by
numerous architectural awards.
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Hospitality
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Hospitality - Introduction
Hotel and leisure projects provide the opportunity to combine our
skills in architecture and urban design with our extensive experience
in providing innovative interior designs.
Each building design is developed in response to the specifi c nature
of the site and to create highly fl exible spaces and uplifting interiors
to suit the needs and budgets of our clients within the hospitality
and leisure industry. The specifi c design of each project is carefully
considered in a response that transcends fashion and aims to
produce a hotel experience that will last the test of time.
Every scheme is based on sound and experience-driven design
principles and is developed in close collaboration with the client to
always provide an innovative and bespoke solution, in an always
evolving and adaptive industry.
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Gibson Hotel - Point Village
Value Client Area
£56 Million
Crosbie Property
17,800m2
The 120,000sq.m Point Village development is located on a 3.5
hectare site at the most easterly part of the Dublin Docklands
development to the north of Dublin’s River Liffey. The scheme is
designed around a major new public space, Point Square, whcih
also provides the terminus for the extended Luas Red Line. The 3.5
storey basement of the scheme with capacity for 850 cars extends
beneath the Luas terminus, which required particular co-ordination
at construction stage.
The 8 storey over triple-basement scheme comprises a District
Centre (with shops, cafes and bars), a 6 screen multiplex cinema,
252 bedroom hotel, 10,000m2 of offi ces and 20,000m2 shopping
centre - one of the largest mixed use schemes ever constructed
in Ireland. The triple-height entrance foyer of the hotel features a
spectacular curving glazed wall supported by glu-lam beams, whose
elegant and dramatic form belies the extensive design challenges
overcome to realise the vision.
The Point Village was a fi nalist at The 2010 World Architecture
Festival and was Commended in the Sustainability category of the
2011 RIAI Awards.
The project also included the detailed design of a landmark 130m
tall 32 storey residential tower. Construction of this project has since
been placed on hold, but the design has addressed and resolved
the many specifi c issues encountered with tall buildings.
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Clarion Hotel
Value Client Area
£11 Million
Howard Holdings PLC
17,800m2
The 191-bedroom 4 star Clarion Hotel, which occupies the
western block of a €60 million mixed development at Lapp’s Quay
designed by Scott Tallon Walker Architects. The hotel’s reception
area is accessed from the high profi le entrance on the corner of
Lapp’s Quay and Clontarf Street, which was developed to provide
maximum visibility through the use of projecting balconies and an
entrance canopy. The spaces within the reception area are created
by overlapping screens, creating anticipation prior to entering the 6
storey atrium, with its sculptural mobile (created by Pat Scott), the
gallery and balconies. The differing moods and characters of the
atrium lounge, the restaurant and the bar were created through the
use of bespoke furniture, fi ttings and lighting, much of which was
designed by Scott Tallon Walker. A Bremen blue-grey marble fl oor
runs from the reception into the atrium and restaurant, broken by
islands of soft brown carpet, which creates a quiet and understated
background. The bedrooms are designed using carefully detailed
bespoke white oak furniture and fi ttings. The colour palette is once
again predominantly quiet, with splashes of colour introduced
through large striped scatter cushions.
Hospitality
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Hospitality
Sports
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Sport & Event Design - Introduction
Scott Tallon Walker, with HOK SVE, won the international competition
for the design and delivery of the new Aviva Stadium at Lansdowne
Road, which was completed in April 2010. The business model for
the new stadium requires its 63,000 sq.m. of internal accommodation
to compete with purpose built conferencing and event centres,
enabling the broad experience base within Scott Tallon Walker
from University facilities, to theatres and hotels through to television
and radio studios to be applied to the creation of multi use fl exible
spaces suitable for creating an effi cient backdrop to most event
requirements.
The broad base experience within Scott Tallon Walker, as well as the
most recent specifi c knowledge in sports stadium and conference
centre design, will enable us to provide clients with the optimum
design solution.
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Aviva Stadium - Lansdowne Road
Value Client Area
Lansdowne Road, Dublin is the site of the world’s oldest international
rugby ground, with the fi rst international matches having been played
there in 1878. Lansdowne Road has been the traditional home of
Irish Rugby for over 150 years, international football has been played
there since the 1970’s, with the new stadium being a joint venture
between the two sporting organisations.
In late 2004, Scott Tallon Walker and HOK SVE (Populous) came
together to enter the international competition to act as architects
for the creation of a new international stadium for rugby and football,
to replace the aging stadium at Lansdowne Road. The bid was
successful, and the team was appointed in April 2005.
During the design development stage, Scott Tallon Walker worked
closely with both the IRFU (Irish Rugby Football Union) and the FAI
(Football Association of Ireland) in developing a scheme that suited
the requirements of both parties. The players’ facilities can be quite
similar, the business plans of each organisation and for the stadium
operator differed. Both organisations have their own requirements
for their supporters and the experience that they wished to create,
and each had a different offering, particularly for corporate guests.
In addition, the requirements of the stadium operator had to be
incorporated into the designs, to ensure that the stadium, as a venue,
competed within the conferencing, catering and event market .
£207 Million
LRSDC
63,000m2
Sports
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College of Sports Science and Physical Activity - King Saud University, Riyadh
King Saud University is the largest and most prestigious university
in the Middle East. Established in 1957, the university has currently
over 60,000 students. In late 2010 Scott Tallon Walker Architects
were appointed architects to design and deliver the new academic
buildings and sports campus, which are part of the ongoing
expansion and upgrading of academic facilities at the university.
The College of Sports Science and Physical Activity has two primary
elements – the College Building, to accommodate the academic
activities of the Faculty, and the Sports Campus.
The College Building opens off the shaded street that is the main
spine of the college campus. The Sports Campus is on an elevated
site to the rear connected to the College Building by an enclosed
pedestrian bridge. The sports campus includes an arena with 10,000
seats for spectators suitable for both athletics, to international
standards, as well as acting as the University’s Aula Maxima.
Other facilities in the campus include a 50m Olympic standard
swimming pool, with separate diving and 25m training pools, halls
to accommodate racquet sports, gymnastics, ball sports and
marshal arts, a dedicated gym facility as well as associated teaching,
conditioning and changing rooms.
Sports
ValueClientArea Completion Date
Confi dential
Saudi Bin Laden Group
65,000m2
2012
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UK Projects - Other Sectors
Clinical Sterile Services Department, Eastman Dental Hospital, LondonNational Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen’s Square
University of Surrey, 5G Centre
St. Andrew’s Healthcare, Birmingham
Proton Beam Therapy Centre - University College London Hospital
Proton Beam Therapy Centre - The Christie, Manchester
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DirectorsDr. Ronald Tallon - KSG BArch FRIAI RIBA
Niall Scott - DipArch FRIAI RIBA (Chairman)
Michael Tallon - BArch FRIAI RIBA (Managing Director)
Peter Dudley - BArch FRIAI RIBA
Eoin O’Morain - BArch FRIAI RIBA
Bryan Roe - DipArch BArchSc FRIAI RIBA ARB
Padraic Halligan - DipArch Tech. MRIAI RIBA ARB
David Cahill - DipArch BArchSc ARB DipProjMan
Donal Blake - BA (Hons) BArch (Hons) MRIAI RIBA
David Flannery - BArch MRIAI
Ronan Phelan - BArch MRIAI
Sheila Carney - DipArch BSc MRIAI RIBA ARB
Dr. Ronald Tallon Niall Scott Michael Tallon
Peter Dudley
Padraic Halligan David Cahill
Ronan Phelan Sheila CarneyDavid Flannery
Donal Blake
Eoin O’Morain Bryan Roe
Dublin19 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: +353 (1) 669 3000
Fax: +353 (1) 661 3300
Email: [email protected]
London10 Cromwell Place, London, SW7 2JN, UK
Tel: +44 (207) 589 4949
Fax: +44 (207) 225 1005
Email: [email protected]
RiyadhAl Akariyah 2, Olaya Street
P.O. Box 34183, Riyadh 11468, Saudi Arabia
Tel: +966 (0) 1 419 1992
Email: [email protected]