The Goethe-Institut

Project: The Goethe-Institut - Adaptation, Refurbishment and Extension of Existing Buildings
Location: 36 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Client: The German Federal Government Office for Building and Regional Planning
Completion: 2018
Photography : Fionn McCann

In collaboration with Henchion Reuter Architects, Shaffrey Architects provide design services relating to the existing building which houses offices, library, public reception rooms and basement café. Works also involve a new extension to the rear to accommodate classrooms led by Henchion Reuter. 

The original house has been restored extensively. The new build consists of a sub-parterre level over most of the site with a split level three-storey mews above. It is designed to service the existing building and forms a single functional unit consistent with the Georgian plot arrangement of House/Garden/Courtyard/Mews/Courtyard. A new garden on the podium level connects both the old and the new in line with historical precedent. 

Bespoke design solutions developed; furniture/fittings – high quality; conservation works revealed historic finishes as well as imaginative/creative interpretation of finishes informed by research and analysis.

This a German Public Works contract, designing under SHWW.