Building on a curve

A BUILDING contracting firm has gone up the learning curve, opting for a contemporary styled crescent shaped project as its first ever development.

“It would have been a shame to waste a site as good as this trying to squeeze in 30 or 40 apartments or box townhouses,” says Mick O’Shea, third generation in the family firm that started off back in 1929 when a family member returned to Ireland Cork after the Wall Street crash.

The company is best known as a general contracting firm, and apart from new buildings has worked on schemes like the conservation of Cork’s Fota House, the re-roofing of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral and the conversion to art gallery of a granary on Cork’s Wandesford Quay.