Dublin Airport – Old Terminal Building

going to keep it ??? i would knock it

Information – on this site surprisingly 😉

http://two.archiseek.com/archives/11415

@Maskhadov wrote:

going to keep it ??? i would knock it

I assume you are thinking of the other terminal Maskhadov?

I quite like the way Pier D is wrapping around the original terminal. I think it will highlight it as a central feature of the airport again.

http://www.dublinairportauthority.com/images/965.jpg

The back of the ground floor of the old terminal building is used for boarding gates. If you’re travelling through the portacabins you walk through part of the old terminal on the way to the temporary gates but you wouldn’t realise it. The rest of the building is used by the DAA for offices, while the Met Office also has a small base there.

I think Phil is right – the new bridge to Pier D will bring the old terminal back into the public eye again as at the minute people don’t notice it at all.

Oh dear – much of the original glazing has been replaced with aluminium. Presumably this will be rectified come restoration.

@phil wrote:

I assume you are thinking of the other terminal Maskhadov?

I quite like the way Pier D is wrapping around the original terminal. I think it will highlight it as a central feature of the airport again.

http://www.dublinairportauthority.com/images/965.jpg

I have to say the above looks great

this should be pretty close to completion now ? SOM are architects, i think.

It’s nearly finished, and is kinda cheap-looking. The suspension pylons for the walkway aren’t white, they’re the ever-popular gunmetal grey.

@phil wrote:

I assume you are thinking of the other terminal Maskhadov?

I quite like the way Pier D is wrapping around the original terminal. I think it will highlight it as a central feature of the airport again.

http://www.dublinairportauthority.com/images/965.jpg

The new walkway privides a nice view of the terminal but it would be way better if the grassed over the car park in front of it.

@Peter FitzPatrick wrote:

this should be pretty close to completion now ? SOM are architects, i think.

SOM did pier D and the walkway. The suspension cables look a bit naff IMO. Unnessessary.

Agreed – rather gimmicky, and so 1992.

Otherwise a nice scheme. Yes the landscape treatment approching the terminal is arguably the most important of all; a sweeping lawn would be lovely.

The gardens in front of the old terminal are being landscaped at the minute and the lawn is being replaced.

The inside of the new terminal building is terrific, very airy and a has a nice atmosphere. It is quite a long walk up from the check-in desks but that its inevtiable.

They’ve done a very nice job with the new gates alright. BUT… the walkway that wraps around the Old Terminal Building.. it’s all glass but a strip of plasticky material that obscures the view down entirely from eye level!

I wonder if anyone knows if any in-depth research has been done on this building and, if so, could they point me in the right direction? I am interested in doing some research of my own but I would like to see what has been written already. I am a post graduate student and I would love to pursue this as my primary research topic.
All I have seen so far is the few pages in Sean Rothery’s Ireland & the New Architecture which was published in 1991.
Yours in anticipation of a reply!
Maud.

surprisingly not a lot shows up in thesis search
http://igs.ie/cgi-bin/theses/catalogue.cgi

Thank you Paul, that is a handy resource.

A pathe newsreel of it under construction
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=8100

@fergalr wrote:

They’ve done a very nice job with the new gates alright. BUT… the walkway that wraps around the Old Terminal Building.. it’s all glass but a strip of plasticky material that obscures the view down entirely from eye level!

Yeah!! What’s up with that?

A few views from one of Ryanair’s finest reclining seats….