Six-storey extension plan shows Crawford's designs on long future

The plans also hope to reinstate the main entrance onto Emmet Place, as it was in its earliest Custom House days.

Artist impression of the gallery from Popes Quay. Picture: Grafton Architects

Cork's Crawford Art Gallery building is no stranger to change, after all, when it was built in 1724 as a Custom House, it overlooked a tidal dock in the marsh city core, at what’s now Emmet Place Plaza.

Artist impression of Emmet Place. Picture: Grafton Architects