Penrose Dock meeting tall order

The tallest office building so far developed in Cork City, Penrose Dock next to Kent Rail Station at up to nine storeys, is setting an even more impressive record: its first core and lift shaft is up to full height, less than a year after the €125m project on the city’s north quays first applied for planning permission.

In an extraordinary scale and speed of development, plans were only submitted for the 250,000sq ft office development, being built in one single phase and capable of hosting 2,500 workers in two blocks, in May of 2018.