1979 – Marks & Spencer, Mary Street, Dublin
Architect: Scott Tallon Walker
Grim department store with equally grim frontage onto nearby Liffey and Abbey Streets.
1979 – New Ireland Assurance Offices, Cavendish Row, Dublin
Architect: Campbell Conroy Hickey
“New Ireland Assurance Co Ltd topped out their latest property investment in Dublin last month at 7/8 Cavendish Row,
1979 – School of Agriculture, University College Dublin
Architect: Rooney Associates
A strong, muscular almost brutalist facade treatment gives the Agriculture building a stern and forbidding appearance.
1979 – Shortlisted Design for Taoiseach’s Residence, Dublin
Architect: Lindsay Johnston
One of 15 entries shortlisted from 98 submissions to design a residence for An Taoiseach and state guesthouse at the Phoenix Park in Dublin.
1979 – Unbuilt Design for Taoiseach’s Residence, Dublin
Architect: Zaha Hadid
Design submitted to architectural competition for an Official residence of the Irish Prime Minister.
1980 – Commercial Buildings, Dame Street, Dublin
Reproduction building after the original was demolished to make way for the Central Bank.
1980 – Former Central Bank of Ireland, Dame Street, Dublin
Architect: Stephenson Gibney & Associates
Another one of Sam Stephenson’s buildings that was to attract a lot of criticism both for its height and original roofline (in contravention of the Planning Permission) and for its brash appearance in Temple Bar.
1980 – Irish Life Centre, Abbey Street, Dublin
Architect: Andrew Devane, Robinson, Keefe & Devane
A large development by Irish Life Assurance Company on the old Brooks Thomas yards consisting of blocks of various heights around courtyards both at street level and raised.
1980 – Jim Larkin Statue, O’Connell Street, Dublin
Sculptor: Oisin Kelly
Facing the former Clery’s department store,
1980 – Roches Stores, Henry St., Dublin
Architect: Newenham Mulligan and Associates
Originally designed in the late 1950s by the same firm of architects (NMA),
