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- Architects: ABK Architects
- Location: Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
- Area: 1600.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Paul Tierney, Courtesy of ABK Architects , Robin Wallace
- Client: Tipperary County Council
- Civil And Structural Engineers: Punch Consulting Engineers
- Environmental Consultants: Homan O’Brien Associates
- Cost Consultants: AECOM Limerick
- Landscape Architects: Stephen Diamond Architects
- Main Contractor: P.J. McLoughlin, Sons Ltd.
- Value: €2.25 million
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The existing building had been developed over the years since an external swimming ‘tank’ was enclosed with a simple portal frame building in the 1960s. It is located on an ‘island’ site defined by the River Nenagh and an overflow channel adjacent to the Dublin railway line embankment on the outskirts of Nenagh.
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Site Plan
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The project involved the renewal and reorientation of the building to address the new park to the east and the creation of an entrance that reconciled the different functions of Swimming with Gymnasium and Aerobics.
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The reception was located centrally with views through to the pool and access to wet changing and dry changing on either side. The old changing rooms were remodelled into a modern changing village. A new aerobics suite and the extended gym now look out over the parkland. A jacuzzi and sauna suite were introduced. Internal finishes were upgraded and the pool tank was completely retiled.
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