Architectural practice Perkins and Will is opening a new office Dublin in the next few weeks.
The office will be co-led by Justin Treacy, who recently joined the firm as principal, and Lydia Collis, an associate principal and recent MBA graduate of the University College Dublin’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.
Under Treacy’s and Collis’s joint leadership, the architectural firm will establish a bricks-and-mortar design studio and begin to expand the practice’s staff to support a growing number of clients, projects, and opportunities.
The move comes as a number of investors have started piling into the city in response to the buoyant real estate market. This week has already seen two major transactions in Dublin. Global Student Accommodation has bought five schemes from its joint venture partner Harrison Street for €400m, and KKR and Palm Capital are forward-funding two logistics warehouses at Greenogue Business Park with an end value of €85m (£72m). The latter deal is thought to be the largest logistics forward-funding commitment in Dublin since the financial crisis.
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