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Scarlet Row

• Location: Temple Bar
• Architect:   McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects
• Completed: 2001

This mixed-use building on Essex Street West, known as Scarlet Row, was designed by McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects and forms part of an integrated development in Temple Bar Dublin. The accommodation comprises 38 apartments, 6 retail units, car parking and a café.

The building comprises three blocks of accommodation around a central hall. The blocks are the 7 individual brick three-storey elements onto Essex Street containing two duplexes each, a five storey range onto the Courtyard containing one bedroom south-facing apartments, and a four storey over plinth element on Fishamble Street containing two bedroom dual aspect apartments.  Horizontal access on each floor is by open balcony within the central hall. The hall has a south-facing sky light and one large west-facing window. The plinth contains an outer perimeter of shops with a cafe on Fishamble Street beside the Handel Archway. Behind the shops is a small car park.

Access to the apartment is along open galleries which overlook the four storey hall. The roof of the hall opens in the summer to allow the building to cool; its glass roof maximises solar gain in the winter.

Apartments are varied in size and type; single-storey one-bedroom south-facing, two-storey two-bedroom duplex with internal living room volume, two-storey penthouse duplex with west light, three bedroom south facing penthouse with terraces on two levels.