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Park West () is a large business park within west Dublin, Ireland, notable for its public art and with some residential development. Over 300 companies, with over 10,000 employees, are based there.
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Park West () is a large business park within west Dublin, Ireland, notable for its public art and with some residential development. Over 300 companies, with over 10,000 employees, are based there.
Location and content
Located just inside the M50 orbital motorway in west Dublin, the development comprises several million square metres of office and retail space, along with a hotel, a private hospital, and three apartment complexes. Park West is in the administration of Dublin City Council, and Dublin postal districts Dublin 10 and Dublin 12, chiefly the latter.Art
Park West is home to Europe's tallest wind and water mobile sculpture, ''Wave'' by Angela Conner. It is a 39.3 metre (129 feet) tall sculpture made of polystyrene covered with layers of carbon resin. It is fixed into a 7.6 metre (25 foot) pit filed with 9.5 tonnes of lead.Sunday Times Magazine - A Life In the Day; 5 August 2007Transport
The campus is accessible by road (primarily the (New) Nangor Road, as well as Killeen Road and Cloverhill),bus
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...
(routes G1 and 151) and rail at the '' Park West and Cherry Orchard railway station''. Expressbus route 860 also serves the park at peak times and is mainly a shuttle service for workers in the industrial section of the park. At a moderate distance to the south is the Kylemore stop on the Luas red line
The Red Line () is one of the two lines of Dublin's Luas light rail system. The Red Line runs in an east–west direction through the city centre, north of the River Liffey, before travelling southwest to Tallaght, with a fork to Citywest and Sag ...
.
Environment
The Grand Canal passes through the business park, with filter beds for the drawing off of water.See also
''Rising Universe
''Rising Universe'', more commonly known locally as the Shelley Fountain, was a large kinetic water sculpture in Horsham, West Sussex, England. It was created by the sculptor Angela Conner and installed in 1996 to commemorate the bicentenary ...
'' - another Angela Conner sculpture.
References
External links
Park West Business Park