1972 – Canada House, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin

Replacing four Georgian houses, Nos.65-68, which were demolished in 1968. Canada House was designed by Tyndall Hogan Hurley and so-named due to its major tenants – the Canadian Embassy, Canada Life, and the Bank of Nova Scotia. Within a decade, the concrete precast panels were breaking down, and it needed massive repairs by 1988 – the architects of these works were Burke-Kennedy Doyle. Indeed the developers Hardwicke ended up claiming against the original architects and engineers Ove Arup. This building no longer exists, demolished 2013, and replaced with another office building in 2016.

Image G. & T. Crampton Photograph Archive, UCD Library, University College Dublin

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