Street art, bike bunkers and pollution fighting plants – meet the man behind Dublin City Council’s ‘Beta’ projects

Former architect and entrepreneur Shane Waring on his mission to ‘solve urban problems’

Shane Waring with one of the Dublin City Council bike bunkers. Photo: Conor McCabe

Around 1,000 electricity boxes have been repainted under the Dublin Canvas brand.

A contract to scale up the bike bunker project has now been signed

A free public cooktop has been installed on a trial basis in Herbert Park in Ballsbridge

Public bodies are not often associated with building experimental projects on a shoestring budget, but there’s one small Dublin City Council (DCC) department that has been doing just that.

DCC Beta, founded and headed up by former council architect Shane ­Waring, has b

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