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Rani Ishar

Associate architect at OKRA Landscape Architects (Utrecht, NL), one of the lead designers of Cork's Marina Park flood-resilient public park in Ireland.

Oct 1, 2026

5:05
Here's Rani Ishhar of OKRA.
5:07
You know, kind of when we came in 2000 and, I think, '12, uh, Cork actually kind of recognized the important of the docklands development and the important to develop kind of, uh, an important public realm next to it.
5:23
So the Marina Park is part of the larger development of the city and larger development of the docklands, developing the green kind of lung of this development.
5:35
So Cork has established a, a international competition, and we've won it together with a multidisciplinary team of local engineers and heritage and ecologists.
5:48
And it took kind of, um, a process of, I think, this year we're kind of opening the last area of the park, so it took almost 15 years for this to happen.
6:00
So first, we kind of worked together with Cork to get the master plan of the park, and then devised a plan how to deliver it.
6:09
In three different particular stages.
7:11
Obviously a huge amount of time, but seems like it's a, a great success story, Roni, so far, isn't it?

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