1971

1971 – 161 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Part of the Lombard complex of buildings that includes the Richardson tower, and the Fairmont Hotel,

1971 – 2643 Portage Ave., Winnipeg

Small scale brutalist building with vertical lines incised into the concrete and recessed windows.

1971 – Bank of Ireland Computer Centre, Cabinteely, Co. Dublin

Architect: Kenneth Kiersey & T.P. Bennett & Son

Designed by London-based architects T.P. Bennett & Son in conjunction with the Chief Architect of Bank of Ireland Group Kenneth Kiersey.

1971 – Bethlehem Abbey, Portglenone, Co. Antrim

Architects: Pádraig Murray / Murray and Beaumont

Large modern Cistercian monastery built in the grounds of an earlier Georgian country house from 1810.

1971 – Denver Art Museum, Colorado

Architect: Gio Ponti

This is a fortress for art – resembling nothing less than the keep of a medieval castle.

1971 – Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Burlington Road, Dublin

Architect: Stephenson Gibney & Associates

With a debt to Kahn’s theory of serviced spaces and services, the Institute for Advanced Studies has a solid spine containing stairs,

1971 – ESB District Offices, Portlaoise, Co. Laois

Architect: Robinson, Keefe & Devane

Including a service yard as well as an office building for the region, the use of concrete with brick is amongst the main themes of Robinson Keefe Devane’s work at the time.

1971 – Extension to Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire

Architect: Robert Creedon

This extension to the 1865 Victorian hotel was constructed by G. & T. Crampton in 1970-1971.

1971 – Former Dunlop Premises, Hatch Street, Dublin

Architect: Tyndall Hogan Hurley

Office building, on a site high above street level adjacent to Harcourt Street railway station.

1971 – IBM Building, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Architect: Mies van der Rohe

This is Mies’ last American building and his largest, faced with dark aluminum and bronze-tinted glass.The original plan called for a U-shaped building,