15 Bachelor’s Walk, an early 18th century terraced house on Dublin's Quays, is being renovated for use as a radical pied à terre for CityArts, a community based arts organisation with outreach projects all over the city. The building will be a place to meet, where art begins from ideas and discussions, where new ways of tackling art in the city are generated. The rere of the old house is built up with a periscope of new rooms overlooking the river; a theatre/forum space is formed in a box lodged between ground floor and basement. The forum box is open to all; videos, film and live performance can be projected against the rere wall, visible across the Liffey to the city behind the original shopfront.