Favourite Buildings

the british and american embassies in dublin.

American embassy ok, but the British embassy? it looks like a glorified fire station

The Holy Trinity looks fantastic, and would appear to be the only decent floodlighting job in the country going by the picture.

Favourite classical:
Bank of Ireland, College Green, its irreplacable. Solid, restrained, streamlined, beautifully balanced & proportioned.

Favourite ‘modern’:
The way the Carrolls Building in Dundalk spreads out idilically on the rolling landscape is fantastic, again restrained and well balanced, its clean lines contrasting with the (artificial) hills and the many architectural trees & plants.
I saw it on a winters morning with the landscape shrouded in mist, and wrapping around the building, it was spectacular.
I was raging I did’nt have my camera!
(Suffice to say, my favourite building)

The Carrolls building is really great, it’s a pity it’s been sold to the adjoining DKIT. I can’t see its pristine quality surviving many semesters!

Another PJ Carroll’s property, prior to “improvements”, used to be my favourite Irish building: their office on the Grand Canal. It satisfies the original post’s criteria in that it had greater qualities as a building to be observed from without than within. The elegance of the portland stone clad elevations, the undercroft and the curved brick wall – which could be imagined to enclose some Stirling-esque lecture theater for induction in the arts of tobacco marketing even when you knew it was just a store – all lent a Corbusian quality, along with the similar Penguin house further down, to otherwise drab surroundings.

Favourite of the older stock would be
The Museum building in Trinity followed by the Town Hall in Dun Laoghaire.

Favourite modern:
Restaurant Building UCD and Bank of Ireland Baggot Street.

catching a sight of spectacular new croke park from a way away fills me with pride I’ll have to say….also guinness original storehouse building looks incredible, and uniquely i think, is so reminiscent of turn of the century new york which is a pretty cool feeling to get in normally damp and shabby old dublin.

Chimneys at pigeon house – they’re normally the first thing I see coming home. They make Dublin recognisable from the sea and air.

Hang your head in shame!