1965 – Blooms Hotel, Anglesea Street, Dublin
Built as a modern bedroom extension to Jury’s Hotel on College Green,
Built as a modern bedroom extension to Jury’s Hotel on College Green,
Engineers’ offices for M/s A. Guinness Son & Co.,
Fitzwilliam Street once the longest expanse of intact Georgian architecture anywhere in the world was destroyed in the 1960s when the ESB a supposedly responsible semi-state body wantonly demolished twelve of the houses.
Until 2021 in use as a branch of Bank of Ireland,
Built to replace the clubhouse of 1936 and designed by architect Desmond Ri O’Kelly who was a member and captain in 1960-61.
Definitely not the most popular building in Dublin but for many years it was the tallest,
An expressive hyperbolic paraboloid-roofed Catholic church built 1963-65 for the Dominican order.
Described by Frank McDonald in ‘The Destruction of Dublin’
Much hated building on a very important site,
Modern institution on a great site overlooking Bulloch Harbour,