Petition to stop UCC's planned  demolition of classic 60s architecture to allow Tyndall extension

North Mall building  facing the chop is not listed, but was designed by Modernist Cork architecture  icon Frank Murphy

Bottling it? North Mall's Cork Distillers' bottling plant's designer Frank Murphy was a mid 20th century modernist and conservationist. UCC, who now own the Distillery Fields, aim to build a four to seven storey research building, linking to the existing Tyndall Institute by the Mardyke/Lee Maltings site via a new €65m bridge

A PETITION has been started to persuade UCC not to demolish a disused industrial building off Cork’s North Mall. The college wants to  to clear a site for a major new nanoelectronics research Tyndall National Institute building facing the current Tyndall centre which employs 600, and generates €30 million a year in research grants.

File pic of previous Tyndall extension in 2009. Picture Dan Linehan