CHQ Building

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CHQ Building
monument in Dublin's Docklands

CHQ Building

CHQ Building
Alternative name: Stack A, New Tobacco Store
Protected Structure in Dublin
Registration number.: 2094
location
Address: Custom House Quay
District: Dublin 1
Coordinates: 53 ° 20 '55.9 "  N , 6 ° 14' 53"  W Coordinates: 53 ° 20 '55.9 "  N , 6 ° 14' 53"  W.
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history
Construction year: around 1820
Restoration: 2005, costs 45 million euros

CHQ Building

Crimean War Banquet Print1856
architecture
Building construction: pure steel construction
use
original use: Tobacco and wine warehouse
current usage: Retail, restaurant, exhibition space, co-working areas

CHQ Building

Location around 1840

The CHQ Building (RPS 2094), formerly known as Floor A, is one of the last remaining warehouses in Dublin's Docklands. It was restored in 2005 for 45 million euros and is now a listed building .

history

Stack A (CHQ Building) was one of two warehouses built at the same time: Stack A was called the New Tobacco Store and Stack B, today's AIB Trade Center, was called the New West Store. Tobacco was stored in the northern part of the Stack A building, and tea in the southern part . Another storey was built under the northern storage rooms, consisting of nine vaulted passages, in which up to 45,000 wine barrels could be stored. The rooms and a. through glass lenses set in iron in the floor of the floor above.

A special feature of the building is that it was one of the first buildings that, for fire protection reasons, was built entirely without wood, but exclusively as a steel structure. It was built on the model of John Rennie , a Scottish civil engineer, who became known for his then novel concept (steel / iron - instead of wooden structures as a foundation), and whose father also designed the "skin floor", the tobacco Warehouse in the London Docks. The steel structure of the roof is supported by three rows of cylindrical metal pillars, 26 in each row, which stand on granite pillars that reach down into the vaults .

As a special event, Stack A warehouse was used in 1856 for the historic Crimean War Banquet, an event to celebrate the return of Irish soldiers who fought in the Crimean War from 1854 to 1855 , and to commemorate the fallen soldiers.

“On the day of the banquet, 22nd October, the newspapers described the reaction of Dublin people to the event, as overwhelming: 'The entire length of the quays from Kingsbridge terminus to the Custom House, and the various streets leading towards the scene of the coming banquet were thronged with groups of people, awaiting the first arrival of the military guests. '"

- chq Dublin ltd . : The Crimean War Banquet: Paragraph 8.

In 1884 the building (45 m wide, 150 m long) was shortened by approx. 4.8 m through construction measures in order to expand the Custom House Quay.
In 1934 a new tobacco store was built, called Stack G and which could be integrated into Stack A on the eastern side.

During the Docklands' major transformation process, the DDDA (Dublin Dockland Development Authority) acquired the building in 1987 and began restoration work in 2005. The DDDA aimed to use it as an artistic and cultural center, but at the same time envisaged the need for mixed use with retail stores in order to guarantee the long-term preservation of the building. The restoration was carried out by the architects Michael Collins and Fitzroy Robinson and was extremely complex: the vaulted walkways had to be drained, the Victorian flood protection devices repaired and the roof structure had to be derusted and insulated. The original idea was to turn Stack A into either an interactive science museum, a contemporary art gallery or a national museum for cultural studies. However, it turned out that, despite the drainage of the vaulted walkways, use as exhibition space is only possible to a very limited extent due to the damp building climate and the proximity to the Liffey .

Due to a vacancy rate of 82 percent in the retail space, the building, which was restored for 45 million between 2005 and 2007, was sold in 2013 to the former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell for just over 10 million euros. Additional seats in the central hall and free W-LAN led to an increase in customer frequency and a revitalization of the building. On working days, the building now looks like a large cafeteria for the International Financial Service Center in Dublin Docklands. It offers numerous good food restaurants, WIFI, co-working areas and exhibition space and is a popular meeting place in Docklands.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dublin City (Ed.): Dublin City Development Plan. 2011 - 2017. Record of protected structure. URL: http://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/content/Planning/DublinCityDevelopmentPlan/Documents/Dev_Plan_-_Vol_3_-_Record_of_Protected_Structures.pdf , accessed on April 27, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (ed.): CHQ Building, Custom House Quay, George's Dock, Dublin, Dublin City: Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. URL: http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DU®no=50010003 , accessed April 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d Burnbury, Turtle (2009): The Docklands - The chq building. URL: http://www.turtlebunbury.com/published/published_books/docklands/custom_house_docks/pub_books_docklands_chq_stacka.html , accessed April 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c Chq Dublin Ltd. (Ed.) (2014): Restoration. URL: http://chq.ie/history/restoration/ , accessed April 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ Chq Dublin Ltd. (Ed.) (2014): John Rennie. URL: http://chq.ie/history/john-rennie/ , accessed April 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b c Chq Dublin Ltd. (Ed.) (2014): The Crimean War Banquet. URL: http://chq.ie/history/the-crimean-war-banquet/ , accessed April 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ Reflecting City Team (ed.) (2008): CHQ (Formerly Stack A). North Walls. URL: http://www.reflectingcity.com/docklands/project-detail/chq-formerly-stack-a/ ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 26, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reflectingcity.com
  8. ↑ Buckley, Donal (2013): “Former Coca-Cola chief seals deal to buy CHQ for € 10m” in Independent.ie (ed.). Dublin. URL: http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/former-cocacola-chief-seals-deal-to-buy-chq-for-10m-29390632.html , accessed April 28, 2016.

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