1952 – St. Luke’s Cancer Hospital, Rathgar, Dublin
Part of the modernisation of the Irish healthcare system in the 1950s when larger specialised hospitals were constructed including sanatoriums and orthopedic units.
Part of the modernisation of the Irish healthcare system in the 1950s when larger specialised hospitals were constructed including sanatoriums and orthopedic units.
This is a singular work in Le Corbusier’s oeuvre in that it departs from his principles of standardisation and the machine aesthetic,
The church that launched a career. Liam McCormick, born in Derry, was working as an architect and planner at the Ballymena Urban District Council when he won with Frank Corr (1917 -1986) a RIAI organised competition for a new church at Ennistymon in 1947.
Begun in 1954 by Father Philip Ruh, the Grotto is both a religious centre in its own right,
Modern residence constructed on a steeply sloping site in Killiney using the site topography to clearly build a low two-storey house.
During the early years of the Irish Republic, the government using import tariffs made it prohibitively expensive to buy any car which was not assembled in the country.
From a souvenir book published by the Leinster Leader for the opening of the chapel.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the Ladies Committee of the Civics Institute set up two nursery schools –
Fine 1950s convent complex still largely intact. The main architectural feature being the nuns small chapel which is expressed externally in the massing and with its large stained glass window clearly visible,
A new cinema by Odeon (Ireland) Ltd. to replace the former Phibsborough Cinema on the same site near Doyles Corner.