former cinemas of ireland
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The Carlton Cinema redevelopment should only serve us to remember what a “pigs ear” they made of the front of the old Adelphi around the corner on Abbey Street. It used to have rather cool stainless steel tiles on the facade….
I’m mad that I never got a photograph before they hacked out the centre for a car park entrance.
Yep, you’re right Paul. Thank God there’s something left though.
Hope you had a nice holiday.
J
Who was the architect of the Adelphi. I know Robinson Keefe were the architects of the Carlton but I don’t think they were responsible for the Adelphi, were they?
The Adelphi was designed by W.R Glen in association with Robert Donnelly. Glen was an English architect.
Store on the Quays (Ellis Quay I think)….. what was it before a furniture store…. inside has curved balcony level reached by two staircases…. ornate plasterwork on the walls and ceilings… seems to be s lower or sunken area (possibly dancefloor) with four columns, one at each corner….
was it a dancehall or a cinema? the exterior is characterised by a small semi-circular window in the middle of the facade?
As far as I know or recollect it was once an old cinema of which I can’t remember the name just now …..Oh! was it ‘the Volta’, James Joyce’s little interest on the side?
The state of this building is in a bad condition…..It was owned by none other than Bargaintown those great cultural exponents and preservers of our architectyral heritage, but it recently change hands I think. Maybe the new owners will rightly give the place, particularly the outside a lick of paint.
I believe that there is a proposal for a significant development on that block (bargaintown site)
(about 80,000sq feet-v.big)I dont know the building you mention but…
The former Phoenix Cinema, with 850 seats, was on Ellis Quay.
I was in the irish Architectural Archive one day recently, and I attemptedx to look this up, but couldnt find any information on it.
Anybody able to help, as I’ve become very interested in it.
I do have some little information about the operation of the Phoenix Cinema, as part of a long term project I am slowly working on concerning cinemas but I have no information about the building, or the architect, and do not know where a photo of it might be available.
I saw in yesterdays IT Commercial property supplement that UCI group ar ein talks with Carlton Group over taking over the former Carlton Cinema on O’Connell Street to turn it into a multiplex….
What has happened to the proposed Millenium Mall etc……’Pie in the sky’ as a lot of other things no doubt…..and we’ll have a poor materialization of the original concept….as a lot of other things.
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Did something strange happen to the Academy on Pearse st. a couple of weeks ago?
It caught fire, the Fire Brigade were there. Couple of days later i saw a TV3 news van outside it.
I realise it’s probably a crap building really but was just curious.
Well Ward Anderson is in the process of demolishing most of it – see http://www.irish-architecture.com/news/archives.cgi?f=keyword&keywords=academy+cinema for stories
So perhaps it caught fire of partially collapsed during the work
Has a bit of history attached to it then. That’s sad really. Was the inside any good?
The outside just looks like cheap mock-palladian. Although, like the presbyterian church on Adelaide St., it’s still more picturesque than most of the cold, naked looking shells they build nowadays.
Think I passed by you yesterday Paul – wasn’t sure if it was you Were you on Pearse street with a Hodges Figgis bag?
John
A new page has been added to the Art Deco Ireland site about this cinema. I still do not know who designed it (Robinson & Keefe?) or when it closed. Can anyone help here with local knowledge?
Art Deco Ireland http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Salon/6941/deco1.htm
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