Our New Building!!!!

You might think it strange to get excited about a few slabs of poured concrete, but, well, that's the kinda gal I am! Since summer there has been progress on site of our new building, but it is not the kind of progress you could regard as glamorous. Piling, laying foundations and all sorts of other shiz that involves dust, dirt and men in hard hats and high-vis vests, but out of this a large concrete structure has been growing. At first it was surrounded with scaffolding.

In this state it had been gradually creeping higher and higher.

until it finally reached its five storeys height. 

Then as soon as the first piece of the steel structure was in place

 the scaffolding began to come down. 'What the..?' I hear you express. Well, the concrete structure you see in the photograph will house the elevator shaft and the stair well. The rest of the building will be made up of glass and steel. So very soon the remaining structure will start to be hung from that pretty plain and dull concrete slab. Rather unglamorous right now, as I say, but over the coming weeks passers-by will witness the incredible engineering feat of constructing a building from the top down!

Keep checking in here for more updates. It's only going to get more interesting!

To look at plans for our new building for the Arts in West Cork go to 

http://westcorkartscentre.com/documents/Plans%20and%20Elevations%20for%20New%20West%20Cork%20Arts%20Centre.pdf