1913 – Baldoyle Racecourse, Dublin
Illustration from The Building News showing the reinforced concrete stand under construction,
Illustration from The Building News showing the reinforced concrete stand under construction,
Also known as the Adelaide Memorial Church.
The placed entries in a competition to design new offices for the then Dublin Corporation on Lord Edward Street,
With its giant Ionic order, this former theatre (the Pillar Picture House) is now sadly in use as a fast food restaurant.
The site was previously occupied by the old county gaol which was built in the late 18th century.
Un-assuming little building built as the Court of Petty Sessions –
With separate entrances for boys and girls,
Domestic house by English architect William Whymper,
Probably the strangest 20th Century building in Dublin and definitely the last hurrah of Victorian Gothic for a religious based institution,
Suburban cinema with its main entrance fronted by a cast iron and glass porch flanked by two commercial units.