hussey architects
  • Profile
    • Office
    • People
    • Contact
    • Location
  • Projects
    • Healthcare
    • Hospitality
    • Commercial
    • Culture
    • Leisure
    • Residential
  • News
    • Newsfeed
    • Architecture Ireland 311
    • Architecture Ireland 255
    • RUM

National Leprechaun Museum Cafe

The National Leprechaun Museum was established in March 2009 by Tom O’Rahilly at Twilfit House, Jervis Street, Dublin ( www.leprechaunmuseum.ie ). It is the world’s first Leprechaun Museum and is housed in the ground floor of a former corset factory. The northern facade of the building presents a blank frontage to a major public open space in Dublin, Wolfe Tone Square. The proposed cafe will animate the southern edge of this square and provide the museum with a highly visible public interface.

The leprechaun was a mythological figure in Irish folklore who could lead one to treasure buried at the end of a rainbow. The proposed cafe design interprets this by forming a canopy lit by fibre optic cable cycling through the colours of the rainbow.

 13 Gilford Road, Sandymount, Dublin, D04 HR59, Ireland | telephone: +353 (0)1 5241480 | email: ​​info@husseyarchitects.com
Hussey Architects Ltd trading as "hussey architects" is a private company limited by shares registered in Ireland. Reg. No. 471494 
  • Profile
    • Office
    • People
    • Contact
    • Location
  • Projects
    • Healthcare
    • Hospitality
    • Commercial
    • Culture
    • Leisure
    • Residential
  • News
    • Newsfeed
    • Architecture Ireland 311
    • Architecture Ireland 255
    • RUM