1962 – Former Bord Failte, Baggot Street, Dublin
Designed to cost as little as possible, the former headquarters of Bord Failte (Irish Tourist Board) occupied a very important site at the Baggot Street crossing of the Grand Canal.
Designed to cost as little as possible, the former headquarters of Bord Failte (Irish Tourist Board) occupied a very important site at the Baggot Street crossing of the Grand Canal.
In a poll in 1998, this was voted the worst building in Dublin by the readers of Archiseek.
One of three office blocks built along here by Norwich Union in the 1960s, destroying a collection of varied Victorian commercial buildings in the process.
Demolished in 2001, Downes Meehan & Robson’s headquarters for the Irish Life Assurance Company was one of the earliest office development outside of the city centre,
Miesian infill from Robin Walker of Michael Scott & Partners for the National Bank.
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.
Described by Frank McDonald in ‘The Destruction of Dublin’ as “truly dreadful” and by Plan Magazine as “leggy piece of non-architecture….
Built to replace some Georgian houses that were in use as office space for the print works behind, this modernist building was demolished in the late 1990s.
Designed as a quick fix for social housing needs, and constructed by 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising, the towers were named after the seven leaders.
Nineteen story office building constructed by the Post Office as a base for the telephone network –