The developer has acquired the Busaras bus station and wished to turn it into a multi-activity Cultural and youth center in the very connected location that is the station.
The center is to accommodate everyone; it is to have a large number of activities and spaces. The design of the spaces have a focus on an immersive education experience for the visitors about the environment, recycling, technologies, a healthier lifestyle, and to connect with each other. The space is designed to accommodate every gender and identity creating a safe environment.
The center is to accommodate everyone; it is to have a large number of activities and spaces. The design of the spaces have a focus on an immersive education experience for the visitors about the environment, recycling, technologies, a healthier lifestyle, and to connect with each other. The space is designed to accommodate every gender and identity creating a safe environment.
Busáras was designed by the architectural firm of Michael Scott between 1946 and 1953, the design team included Wilfrid Cantwell, Kevin Fox, Robin Walker, Kevin Roche and Pat Scott (mosaics), with Ove Arup as the consulting engineer. Located on the northeast segment of Beresford Place crescent, with its blank limestone facade continuing the line of the crescent. It began in 1946 as a national bus station and headquarters of the national bus and rail transport authority, CIÉ. By the time of its completion in 1953, it housed the offices of the Department of Social Welfare, the bus terminus and a small theatre. Stylistically it relates to the early 1930s Le Corbusier buildings, Maison Suisse and the Cité de Refuge in Paris. Busáras is widely considered the building that announced the arrival of International Modernism in Ireland.
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