Holding court for all its new admirers

The district courthouse extension on Anglesea Street is a limestone beauty and a welcome addition to Cork city, says Tommy Barker

THE architecturally muscular block that is Cork city’s new suite of court rooms, cells, and services, off Anglesea Street, was created to look “like a single element of limestone was extruded from the earth, and hewn to a design to accommodate the complexities of the court,” say its designers.

Yet, the many thousands of tonnes of pale, limestone cladding, so fastidiously brought together in the building (it goes into service in April) originated in the Lecarrow quarry, in Roscommon.