Great Palm House – Botanic Gardens

It looks great. Interesting article in The Irish Times some time ago.

http://www.irish-architecture.com/news/2004/000102.html

Saw this in the Times on Saturday.
The Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland are hosting a lecture and tour of the wonderful glasshouses in the Botanics.

Saturday, 16th April
11.00 – 12.00 Conserving ironwork: The curvilinear glasshouses and palm house
Speaker: Ciarán O’Connor, Assistant Principal Architect, Office of Public Works
12.00 – 13.15 Tour of Glasshouses & Palm House

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The palm house is amazing… my favourite place in Dublin after Iveagh Park in Summer 😉

@Deadonarrival wrote:

Was in the newly renovated great palm house in Glasnevin at the weekend – an amazing space..they haven’t filled the main area with plants yet – really worth a visit..

The great Palm house was just an off the peg greenhouse apparantly… but one thing you notice when you go is the economy of the engineering… the opw did a fab job on restoring it… the exterior walkway works also as a retaining ring beam…. v cool.. I’m sure they won’t mind me posting these….

PS I can’t understand why it’s being used as a musical venue at the mo…. those kind of curves are a nightmare for accoustics..

Wow! That restoration has been magnificent.

Keep those silly plants out I say 😀

Too late Graham – the plants are already going in.

And yes the acoustics in the empty house are poor, I was at a meeting there while it was empty and it was very hard to hear the speakers, even from a few rows back.

absolutely fabulous restoration – was a rotting mess before

a photo i took before restoration