Frank McGahon

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.