Perfect location for apartments

Tommy Barker profiles a well-designed student block in the city centre.

The S50 student accommodation development on Rutland Street is an aesthetically pleasing conversion of an old stone mill building with complementary yet contemporary new annexe.

And, right behind Reeves Hall, work on the architecturally striking new €12 million St John's College, a Further Education VEC college, is in the final throes of construction. Eye-catching features of the college building include the green copper-clad roof sections and break-out windows in the four-storey building due for completion next month (perversely, students here won't qualify for S50 accommodation).