1978 – Pennys, O’Connell Street, Dublin
Former British Home Store department store constructed on the site of the still-missed Metropole and Capitol Cinemas.
Former British Home Store department store constructed on the site of the still-missed Metropole and Capitol Cinemas.
A strong muscular almost brutalist facade treatment gives the Agriculture building a stern and forbidding appearance.
Design submitted to architectural competition for an Official residence of the Irish Prime Minister. It was intended to build a Taoiseach’s official residence and State guest house on the site of the former Apostolic nunciature in Phoenix Park,
Grim department store with equally grim frontage onto nearby Liffey and Abbey Streets. Terrible commercial infill.
Design submitted to architectural competition for an Official residence of the Irish Prime Minister. It was intended to build a Taoiseach’s official residence and State guest house on the site of the former Apostolic nunciature in Phoenix Park,
Rebuilt at a 90 degree angle after the original was demolished to make way for the Central Bank development. Originally the building crossed the pedestrian walkway to Crown Alley,
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.
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.
Facing Clery’s, Jim Larkin (1874-1947) is remembered on Dublin’s main thoroughfare for his dedication to worker’s rights.
Intended to be a building with a strong visual presence in the port and succeeds as such.
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