Cork Marina €600,000 Landscape Design Contract Awarded to Dutch Firm

Contract awarded to: OKRA Landscape Architects from the Netherlands

The regeneration of Cork Docklands is a priority project for Cork City Council aiming to revitalise 162 hectares of brownfield lands to the north and south of the River Lee and adjacent to the city centre.

This project will involve the consolidation of approx 32 hectares surrounding an existing recreational area into a high quality city park to be known as Marina Park. The development of the park will provide for the active and passive recreational needs of the city including the riverside amenity area (Marina), Atlantic Pond, Showgrounds, lands surrounding Pairc Ui Chaoimh sports stadium and other lands to the east of the Docklands development area. The project aims to achieve the objectives of the South Docks Local Area Plan 2008 and its Public Realm Strategy.

Hortitrends posed the question to Cork City Council: How many Irish applicants for the contract? Any comment on the awarding considering levels of unemployment.

Answer: Hi Joseph - OKRA Landscape Architects from the Netherlands have been awarded the contract to design Marina Park. They are partnered with a number of Irish consultancies including Redscape Landscape Architects, O' Connor Sutton Cronin (Engineers), Howley Hayes (Conservation Architects), Fehily Timoney (Ecologists), Davis Langdon PKS (Cost Consultants) as well as UK based Modus Operandi (Art Consultants) and Dutch architects Venhoevencs. If you have any other queries let me know - Regards -Evelyn

Evelyn Mitchell,
Senior Executive Planner,
Strategic Planning and Economic Development,
Cork City Council, City Hall, Cork.

Source: etenders - Cork Marina €600,000 Landscape Design Contract Awarded to Dutch Firm

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