Shopping avenues win prestigious building awards

TWO new landmark shopping areas on Cork’s main street have won the top awards in a prestigious building competition.

The Opera Lane and Half Moon Street retail district, developed by O’Callaghan Properties, has taken first prize in the Better Building Awards New Development Category.

And the revamped Dunnes Store building a few yards north secured the Judges Choice Award for the design and scope of the new store which was developed on the site of the first Dunnes Store shop, established in 1945.