Limerick to get performing arts 'village'

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2004 / November 18 2004: Limerick to get performing arts 'village'

Plans were unveiled yesterday for a €14 million "Irish Performing Arts Village" to be built in the grounds of the University of Limerick campus. The "village", which is to be completed in 2007, will stand on the Clare banks of the river Shannon in the university's new north campus and will provide a new home for the Irish World Music Centre, which is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary at UL under the directorship of Prof Michéal Ó Suilleabháin. French architect Daniel Cordier, who won a two-stage international competition to design the village, yesterday unveiled a three-dimensional model of it at the university. Overlooking the Clare hills on the banks of the Shannon, the building will house dance studios, glass-fronted music practice rooms, a tented roof garden, a water fountain and even a Zen Garden, where students of chant can practise their levitation techniques.

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