1969 – Phoenix House, South Leinster Street, Dublin

Office accommodation from the late 1960s, a rather grim exercise in concrete and projecting windows replacing a number of smaller Victorian commercial premises. Originally supposed to be larger, the site included No.6 South Leinster Street which was restored instead of being demolished. Larger than it looks, it extends backward as a H-plan building. Badly damaged in the May 1974 bombings of Dublin when a car bomb was detonated across the street, blowing out most of the glazing. The facade has been remodelled.

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