How well do you know Dublin?
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- Graham Hickey wrote:So poor J languishes at the bottom of the pile 🙁
Come on, it’s hardly that difficult. At least Foster Place is getting warmer in that with that level of decoration it’s clearly Regency or 20th century classicisim. But which? And where?J
(and shut up Devin – you always have to spoil everything)
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I think this building is on O’Connell Street. Is it the one that is on the East side of the street, just to the north of Clery’s? (next door)
Correct!
I thought the lime tree was handing it up on a plate, but clearly not!Don’t have a wide view of the building but the capital depicted is up at the top of the ground floor anyway 🙂
A strange building that isn’t particularly attractive as a whole; pompous neoclassical, highly embellished ground floor, austere neo-Georgian above, and then capped off with a modernist parapet and pediment! An excellent monument to changing times though.You can see in the picture that Plan B has been called into action by Paddy Power – they’re seeking to let the building upon adapting it for retail requirements via a planning application for glazed interventions to the front, amongst others.
It won’t surprise many to learn it was lodged two days before Christmas Eve :rolleyes:Gotcha! No 7 annoyed me enough to look through the Buildings of Ireland section on Dame Street. I was close:
Interesting watercolours of Dublin street scenes by David Browne
http://www.molesworthgallery.com/Browne%20link%20page.html4 – North Terminal Dublin Airport
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/collinstown/north_terminal.html5- Arbour Hill Church
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/arbour_hill/arbourhill4_lge.html6- St Audoens
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/high_street/st_audeons_portlester.html7- A corpo building on Lord Edaward Street
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/lord_edward_street/corporation_centre_lge.htmlany takes for 1,2,3?
1. New Ireland Dawson Street
2. (A Guess) Embassy House in Ballsbridge
3. Powerscourt South William Street
1 looks like it could have been that bit on the wall of the old Pelican House on Mespil Road. But that’s gone now, so has it been reassembled somewhere else?
think i agree with Seamus on number 1 – Pelican House ?
2; Microsoft in Sandyford ?Yes, it looks like a business park building, but Microsoft is a bit far out of the city…
How very silly to get 3 mixed up with the Green building (though they are very close by) – it is of course the Mercer Hospital 🙂
#1 was a trick question, it was the mosaic on the rear of Pelican House…
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/ballsbridge/mespil_road/pelican.html#3 is the old Mercer Hospital
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/mercer_street/mercers_hospital.html#2 looks very like the office block beside Herbert Park Hotel – but I’m not sure whether it has an internal corner like that or not…
I think #9 is on Green Street East, between Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and Hanover Quay.
I was wondering about the mosaic on the Pelican House. I remember as a very small boy being at a pantomime in that building – given by staff of the Irish Life whose building it was at the time. There was a hall with what looked liked a purpose-built stage. I wonder was the mosaic there as a “backing” for the stage, i.e., to provide a window-free section in the building.
(between that and the lego, this is a real trip down memory lane):)
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