Plans for a €30m landmark shopping centre in Galway have been unveiled by the architect.

The building is located on the eastern boundary of Galway near Galway racecourse, at the Briarhill roundabout.

The scheme will acts as a gateway to the city for traffic coming from the airport, Dublin, Limerick and Cork.

It was the energy and innovation that Paul Dillon brought to his first projects around Galway that promptly led to him receiving the commission for the Briarhill Shopping Centre with a relatively large budget of €30m.

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It's three floors of 14,887 square metre area houses shop units adjoining the anchor tenant Dunnes Stores plus a series of office units and rooftop apartments.

The apartments arranged along each side of a central rooftop "street" benefit from a system of natural light and unusual amount of outdoor space in the form of courtyards and terraces.

"The building understands its place, taking responsibility in the context of a major urban interchange on the edge of the city by embracing the roundabout and the reality of the car culture, reclaiming a functional piece of road engineering as part of the urban fabric of the city," said the architect.

(PR/JM)