1978 – 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Architect: Scott Tallon Walker
Previously a georgian house with a large shopfront in use as a showroom by the ESB.
1978 – Allied Irish Banks Headquarters, Merrion Road, Dublin
Architect: Andrew Devane, Robinson, Keefe & Devane
A commercial headquarters on a US campus-style model with its heavily landscaped grounds,
1978 – Clancourt, Mount Street, Dublin
Architect: Austin Murray
Grotesquely offensive scheme whose long bland elevations and repetitive detailing do much to deaden Mount Street.
1978 – Clanwilliam Court, Mount Street, Dublin
Architect: Austin Murray
One of the schemes that kick-started the wholesale destruction of Lower Mount Street,
1978 – Design for St. James Hospital, Dublin
Architect: Moloney O’Beirne Guy & Hutchinson Locke and Monk
The history of St James’s stretches back to 1703 when an Act was passed to build a workhouse on its site.
1978 – Martello Mews, Sandymount, Dublin
Architect: Denis Anderson, Diamond Redfern Anderson
A small site approximately one acre contains fifteen town houses,
1978 – Matt Talbot Bridge, Dublin
Architect: De Leuw, Chadwick and O’hEocha Consulting Engineers
Planned for many years to create a clockwise traffic flow up and down the quays,
1978 – Miesian Plaza (Bank of Ireland), Baggot Street, Dublin
Architect: Ronnie Tallon, Scott Tallon Walker
The former Bank of Ireland headquarters in Baggot Street is most notable for two things other than its architecture: the amount of Bronze Manganese used in its construction –
1978 – O2 (Formerly Bord na Mona), Baggot Street, Dublin
Architect: Stephenson Gibney & Associates
Designed as the headquarters of Bord Na Mona,
1978 – Pennys, O’Connell Street, Dublin
Architect: W.H. Byrne & Son
Former British Home Stores department store constructed on the site of the still-missed Metropole and Capitol Cinemas.
