The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on Grand Canal Square in the Dublin Docklands was designed by Daniel Libeskind, with RHWL of London and McCauley Daye O'Connell as executive architects. It was built to specifications of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. Groundbreaking was on January 9, 2007, and it opened on March 18, 2010 with Swan Lake by the Russian State Ballet of Siberia. The article names no style or materials.
It seats 2,111 and is called Ireland's largest fixed-seat theatre. Its stage can host major London West End shows. The reported cost was 80 million euros, including land.
It was originally the Grand Canal Theatre and took its current name on March 7, 2012.
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