A Tale of Two Meeting Rooms
Studio GBM : Project Management of Commercial & Hospitality Interiors
Meeting Room 1 : The Clare Suite
Images of before, the inspiration and the finished project.
The Client : Radisson Blu Hotel
The Brief : Create branded murals for the walls in two of the hotel’s busy meeting rooms that would reflect their location on the Limerick and Clare border, stay in line with their brand colours and be scale appropriate to the room size.
Our Solution : Tell the story of the Shannon Scheme. A national project connecting Limerick and Clare and telling the story of energy; one of the subjects for many business meetings taking place not just in these rooms - but in all meeting rooms over the coming decades.
The Process : One of our company’s strengths lies in the ability to build a good collaborative strategy. When projects are multidisciplinary like the Radisson Blu job, each team member is important, and good communication and scheduling is key to project success.
Research-based storytelling.
Acquiring permissions from ESB Archives to use the selected images.
Photographing the Port of Limerick buildings to infill some of the details missing from the original archive image.
Commissioning Limerick artist Kathy Tiernan to interpret both archive images in a pen and watercolour style.
Designing components to give an aesthetically interesting mural.
Printing to Antalis Coala heavy duty 350grm non woven sustainable wallcovering.
Installing the pre cut panels on site.
Meeting Room 2 : The Limerick Suite
Images of before, the inspiration and the finished project.
Our Thanks goes to Brian Harrington of the Radisson Blu and his team for their belief in the concept, Shannon Foynes Port Company for allowing on site photography of Limerick Docks, ESB archives for their support, our inhouse Research & Design team for their vision and hard work, artist Kathy Tiernan for her skill, and our Installation Team who always get it ‘just right’.
The Story : The Shannon Scheme was a massive 1920s civil engineering project by the Irish Free State to harness the River Shannon. It created the Ardnacrusha Power Plant in County Clare, launched national electrification, and led to the creation of the Electricity Supply Board (ESB).
During the construction of the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme in the mid-1920s, the Port of Limerick served as the primary entry point for over 90 ships carrying roughly 30,000 tons of heavy German machinery and equipment.
From Limerick docks, the equipment was transported via a specially constructed standard-gauge railway link running from Longpavement in Limerick city out to the building site at Ardnacrusha in County Clare, while some massive excavators traveled slowly by road under their own steam.
Historical Background :
