{"id":415122,"date":"2026-04-24T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415122\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:43:11","slug":"dublin-to-take-irelands-tallest-building-title-from-cork-with-30-storey-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415122\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin to take ‘Ireland’s Tallest Building’ title from Cork with 30-storey tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leeside may only have crown for a year<\/p>\n

09:38, 24 Apr 2026Updated 10:47, 24 Apr 2026<\/p>\n

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What the Parkgate Tower will look like<\/p>\n

It looks like the Dubs couldn’t let Cork have it – and we may now be in a race to build bigger, taller and faster with the capital as plans for 30-story plus towers are being advanced in both cities.<\/p>\n

The 25-story Railyard Complex tower has shot up on Cork’s south quays over the past few months, with the central ‘spine’ of the building now in place.<\/a> It is currently the tallest structure in Ireland (and more importantly, when finished, it will have over 270 affordable & social housing apartments).<\/p>\n

However, that title may only stay in Cork until the end of this year as construction is now starting on the long-awaited Parkgate Street Tower in Dublin in August. The main 30-story tower opposite Heuston Station will be 102m tall, making it the tallest building on the island of Ireland.<\/p>\n

The project will mirror Cork’s Railyard Tower with quick-build Vertical Slipform Construction, where platforms are used by construction workers to build floor-by-floor, placing steel reinforcing rods ahead of concrete and moving up quickly, constructing a central spine of the building for lifts, stairs and utilities. In Cork, which saw the Railyard ‘spine’ fly up 25 stories in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n

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The Railyard Apartments. Picture: Drone Solutions Ireland<\/p>\n

Developer Joe O\u2019Reilly\u2019s Chartered Lands is behind the project in Dublin, which is on the site previously occupied by Hickey\u2019s Wholesale Fabrics warehouse, across the river from Heuston Station.<\/p>\n

Substructure works for this element of the scheme will start on August 13, with the tower set to be built over a two-and-a-half year period from September. Demolition works have already started on the long derelict site and the existing wharehouse will be down by the end of May.<\/p>\n

All three blocks of the scheme are scheduled to be complete in April 2029.<\/p>\n

There have been proposals for even taller towers in Cork – with one massive 35-story sky-scraper proposed for the site where the old Marina Power Station still stands on the banks of the Lee.<\/p>\n

Should one of several 30-story-plus proposals get the green light, Cork could be reclaiming back the title in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeside may only have crown for a year 09:38, 24 Apr 2026Updated 10:47, 24 Apr 2026 What the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,14641,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-415122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-cork-city","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}