1913 plans of gallery on River

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    • April 4, 2006 at 7:21 pm #708550
      ConK
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      has anybody seen the plans for the Art gallery with was to be built spanning across the Liffey. An incredible looking thing. I saw a picture of it in the Freemans Journal June 1913 while doing some other research. I expected to see it in the “unbuilt” section of the website.

    • April 4, 2006 at 7:52 pm #776477
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Is that the Edwin Lutyens one? I think that is in Ireland and the New Architecture 1900 to 1940 by Sean Rothery, but I don’t have it to hand to make sure that is where I saw it. If it is not in that it could be in Reinventing Modern Dublin by Yvonne Whelan. I am also pretty sure I have seen it on line somewhere, and thought it was on this site.

    • April 4, 2006 at 8:44 pm #776478
      damnedarchitect
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      Yeah it was Lutyens. Project went under when Lane went under with the Lusitania. I think it sounded great.

    • April 4, 2006 at 8:52 pm #776479
      a boyle
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      It did look great , but the gallery was to replace the haypenny bridge. People disliked the bridge at the time ,as it was made of metal . A bit the spike , or the eiffel tower !

    • April 4, 2006 at 9:37 pm #776480
      damnedarchitect
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      @phil wrote:

      Is that the Edwin Lutyens one? I think that is in Ireland and the New Architecture 1900 to 1940 by Sean Rothery, but I don’t have it to hand to make sure that is where I saw it. If it is not in that it could be in Reinventing Modern Dublin by Yvonne Whelan. I am also pretty sure I have seen it on line somewhere, and thought it was on this site.

      Would anyone know where a layperson would get hold of these books?

    • April 4, 2006 at 10:07 pm #776481
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      Hodges Figgis on Dawson Street

    • April 6, 2006 at 11:02 pm #776482
      GrahamH
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      Yes. They’ve always been good, but are even better of late. What once was a small bookshelf on Irish architecture and built environment has gradually enveloped that whole corner over the past two years.
      Their Dublin section is also expanding.

    • August 30, 2006 at 6:57 pm #776483
      archfan
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      @damnedarchitect wrote:

      Would anyone know where a layperson would get hold of these books?

      Both of them are available in the new bookshop in the Hugh Lane too if you happen to be Northside.
      Pretty good on the Architects monographs as well.

    • August 30, 2006 at 7:06 pm #776484
      GrahamH
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      Indeed the original sketches, and some watercolours too I think, of this proposal and that for the Gallery of Modern Art in St. Stephen’s Green are on display in the Hugh Lane itself. They’re in the first right-hand ante-room of the central gallery axis.

    • August 31, 2006 at 12:16 am #776485
      hutton
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      Frederick O’ Dwyer’s “Lost Dublin”, (Gill & Macmillan published 1981,82,85)) has a full A4 page devoted to it on p142 also showing 1 drawing. Lost Dub is probably available in Ilac or Pearse St Libraries – hope this helps! H.

    • September 4, 2006 at 5:05 pm #776486
      Telemachus
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      One here if you’re interested but you’ll pay dearly for it. A nice piece of work. Incidentally, I went along to an IGS talk FO’D was delivering earlier this year with the intention of thanking him for the pleasure the book had brought me and to request a signature but he wasn’t really up for it which was disapointing. 🙁

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