Small job should have large impact after renewal at Cork's 57 Oliver Plunkett Street

Architect behind salvation of corner shop No 57 has larger projects in the wings, so is there a belated turning of the tide of upper floor dereliction?

The former O'Connor's shoe shop on the junction of Oliver Plunkett Street and Princes Street, Cork, which has got a total makeover.

SWEET goods, in a small parcel — that’s the restoration success of 57 Oliver Plunkett Street, in the glacially-paced recovering heart of Cork city centre, a winning case study writ small of conservation of a commercial premises and delivery of a ‘Living over the Shop’, high quality apartment, both now up to let individually.

Glass act: Conservation saw the old green Vitrolite facade and fascia  matched and the mid 1900s mosaics underneath retained by builders Petram Construction