1963 – St. Laurence’s Boys National School, Kilmacud, Co. Dublin

Although extended, the main portion of the building remains as completed in the early 1960s. Basil Boyd Barrett specialised in school building – he was chief schools’ architect from 1947 for the Office of Public Works – and his works are spread over the country. Part of his visual language for schools in the late 50s and early 60s was continuous glazing along the classroom exterior – each classroom delineated by a concrete fin or post.