A decade after completion, and having weathered the economic crash, Cork's iconic Elysian tower and its 211 flanking apartments are now fully occupied.

Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower in Cork city, is expected to fetch more than €100m when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower in Cork city, is expected to fetch more than €100m when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

DEVELOPMENT worth €160 million, spanning eight buildings and to include 237 apartments, a 136-bed hotel, 400,000 sq ft of offices and an acre of open plaza is coming on track on Cork city’s Horgan’s Quay.

A 50-acre tract of land is being sold for development at Cork’s Blarney Business Park, six miles from Cork city centre, on the N20 Mallow-Limerick road. It’s priced at €2.75m, or circa €55,000 an acre.

Global 21st-century tech giant Facebook, along with Chinese firm Huawei and US cyber security company Alien Vault, are to keep company with a repolished Cork pearl, the 18th century-founded Oyster Tavern, as the line-up for the city centre’s €50m Capitol shops, office and bar development is confirmed.

One half of these golden pair of exceptional semi-d’s has just come to the market, writes Tommy Barker.

Companies considering locating in Cork may be lured by favourable terms to accommodate staff in a new, purpose-delivered, build-to-let apartment investment, as part of a proposed, mixed-used city centre project at Horgan’s Quay.

AS THE very last section of shiny, white Techcrete cladding panels swung into place this week on Cork City’s rapidly-emerging €50m Capitol retail and office complex, a pedestrian passerby on Grand Parade observed “ah, the last piece of the jigsaw”.

Planning permission is today being sought for a €50m development that aims to be "a catalyst project for Cork city centre, a game changer".

Irish firm Wilson Architecture has won a major design contract in China for over 1 million sq ft of HQ, lab and R&D buildings, as part of an enormous new 8.5 million sq ft bio-pharma campus.

A hospital has pledged €150,000 to help establish a new suicide crisis centre in Cork.

A Cork-based architecture firm has beaten stiff European and international competition to land the tender to design a major new twin-tower 40-floor mixed-use development to be built in the north-eastern Chinese city of Dalian.

With the Shard in London — Western Europe’s tallest building — opening tomorrow, John Daly visits Ireland’s equivalent — in Cork City

A €10 MILLION extension to a university’s sports arena is poised to create up to 100 construction jobs and deliver a world-class sports facility for the south.

THEY thought about moving, they thought about going all contemporary on makeover and extension front – and eventually this couple of practicing architects went the seemingly modest route for their own family home.

HOVERING above the trees on Cork’s Maryborough Hill is the just-launching apartment scheme Elden — including five upmarket penthouses looking down on centuries’ old woodland and the Lee estuary.

THE first exclusive previews of the country’s tallest apartment building, Cork’s €150 million-plus The Elysian, took place yesterday.

ONE of the country’s largest development firms has been given the equivalent of a €1.7 million ‘cash back’ windfall thanks to An Bord Pleanála.