1968 – Guardian Assurance, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Architect: McDonnell & Dixon
Designed for the Guardian Assurance Company,
Designed for the Guardian Assurance Company,
Formerly in use as back-office accommodation for Allied Irish Banks.
Small office block to front of an existing knitwear factory.
This complex of 850 flats,
Thirteen floors of office space in a very sensitive location behind Fitzwilliam Place and on the banks of the Grand Canal,
One of several large hotels constructed in a couple of years for the Ryan Hotel group by Stephenson Gibney &
Originally when completed,
Feel the white heat of a modernising Ireland in this cheerful John Hinde postcard.
Built on the site of the old Richmond Barracks,