The Irish Times

Two slender, eight-storey apartment buildings are set to form a "gateway" to the new Ballymun following Ireland's first architectural competition for higher-density residential development, won by a Scottish firm of architects. ARP Lorimer and Associates emerged as winners of the competition organised by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland on behalf of Ballymun Regeneration Ltd, the company set up by Dublin Corporation to re-plan the 1960s high-rise, lowdensity housing estate.

The winning design in the competition, which attracted 39 entries from Ireland, Britain and Europe, is intended to be built by private sector developers and will provide a total of 172 housing units on a 4.5-acre site - a density of 40 units per acre. The pair of eight-storey apartment buildings, each consisting of four duplex apartments, would be marketed as student accommodation for Dublin City University. Terraced four-storey buildings are designed to provide an edge to the new main street.