Anyone know the name and location of this building????
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Anyone know the name and location of this building????
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Hmm not sure of the name. Wilton Crescent or something. Its near the Peppercanister on Upper Mount Street
It’s the former Matheson Ormsby Prentice offices at 30 Herbert Street. Was built on the site of a small open space in the late 80s/early 90s. Ray Burke was implicated in the shenaigans surrounding it getting PP and it led to a change in how he Board of ABP is made up if I remember correctly. Am sure more on here will know more about it.
How pictures come full circle. They end up being presented back to you!
Spot on tommyt with all the details.
I think the late John Finnegan of Finnegan Menton and Brennan McGowan fame was also involved. I vaguely remember that he had acquired some Pembroke Estate lands.
I recall now that the space was known as ‘the plantation’ but I have never seen photos of this area. The whole saga gets a good write up in Frank MacDonald’s ‘Saving the City’ (1989 I think)which should be in all university libraries and still turns up in bookshops around town. I have also heard of the building being held up as a decent example of pomo architecture, which is debatable.
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