Designed by Derek Tynan Architects the Printworks consists of 10 apartments and 4 studio/retail units. The design is generated by an interest in the physical grain of the city and the creative use of the existing buildings and gap sites to increase the residential population.The model of the raised court, as a sectional means of reinhabiting the upper floors of the city fabric, is used to adopt the block for this intensification of residential use.

The site for the project is an 'L' shaped section of the Temple Lane /Eustace Street block, with frontage onto 2 Streets. Elements to be retained were the existing 2-storey early 20th century facade on the Temple Lane and the majority of the 18th century building from part of the frontage onto Essex Street.