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Have you gone into the Irish Architectural Archive on Merrion Square?
If it is the building that I am thinking of, No.2 Grafton Street (No.1 being the Provost’s House) according to Williams: a ]sandstone and matching brick neo-Tudor by L McDonnell from 1902.
Personally I dont think it is Tudor, as a cursory glance shows three doors.
(joke based on LA Story)
I think calling that park a dead area is wrong. Before the corpo closed it, it was always busy, people sitting around, and in the summers you couldnt see the grass for people.
Has this project died?
The house is now more derelict looking than before with most of the windows open to the elements.I believe that its the same Paul alright.
Originally was intended to be a HQ for CIE, but then after escalating costs, was annexed for the Department of Social Welfare and a proposed women’s dole office. I believe Flann O’Brien made comments about it being known as a bust station if that came to pass.
I think this fashion for removing railings from railed spaces is madness. Sure open the gates, but do not remove the railings, the buildings need the railings as a buffer zone at night etc otherwise we’ll have people pissing and puking against the walls of these buildings.
Yes Bertie wants to be photographed with the carriages so as to get the commuter vote in the new year.
From AJPlus
Construction is about to begin on the £17.5 million extension to the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, designed by Benson & Forsyth. The design, which had to be changed considerably to accommodate a listed building, is in three parallel zones running north to south. The most easterly of these houses the larger portion of the temporary gallery on the upper levels with ancillary accommodation below. The central zone comprises a full-height orientation space plus the bulk of the building’s circulation. In the westerly zone is a full-height conservatory space plus coffee and resturant facilities and additional gallery space above.You know if you used sentence case instead of all caps, we could actually read this easier and may be inclined to do so.
There has long been a feeling in Dublin Corporation and councils around the country that civic space = a few trees
I follow ya. I do quite like the austerity of the building myself. Most of the galleries in the current gallery are completely uninteresting spaces so hopefully this new extension will add a focus / people space for the ensemble.
A city needs contrast and Clare Street is reasonably intact (with the exception of the rather bland pastiche Gov Dept building) but South Leinster Street is full of bland uninteresting buildings – think of the two awful blocks before the Georgian building. I think it will act as a full stop to the street just as it runs into Clare Street.
Greg, with galleries you do not want a whole lot of natural light. Direct light isnt great for the paintings.
Really James? I was in the building years ago when it was Maptec and the Drawing Centre was underneath. Upstairs was in poor enough condition even then. What are they going to do with the building now? Administrative offices?
Declan, it does to me also, but remember until the conservation lobby had their way, the victorian building next door was to be demolished and the facade was to be longer. It was saved to protect the small Georgian ballroom to the rear of the house which i now believe is going to be a small pavilion inside the new gallery space..
