Re: Re: Department of Finance, Merrion Row – Grafton Architects

The join with the red brick terrace of Merrion Row.

The opposite end of the site deftly handles the awkward angle adjoining the Huguenot cemetery by means of a striking single-storey atrium.

However the side elevation is unfortunately as unsuited to its context as it was the day it was unveiled.

Busy, loud, dissrespectful to the cemetery, and lacking in understanding of the wider streetscape. A shame.

And purely for its own sake, it looks as though the elevations for two different buildings got mixed up and amalagamated.

By all means the side elevation is of merit, but not at this location.

A blemish on an otherwise supremely accomplished building, the artistry of which we have not seen in Dublin in quite a while.