1879 – Dairy Cottage, Highfield, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Architect: Treasure & Son
Perspective including ground & Chamber Plans as published in The Building News, Febraury 7th 1879.
1979 – 360 Main, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Smith Carter
At 117 metres and 31 floors, this tower decimated the surrounding streetscapes at construction, removing a variety of commercial buildings.
1979 – Agriculture Block, University College Dublin, Co. Dublin
Architect: Scott Tallon Walker
A strong muscular almost brutalist facade treatment gives the Agriculture building a stern and forbidding appearance.
1979 – Design for Taoiseach’s Residence, Dublin
Architect: OMA
Design submitted to architectural competition for an Official residence of the Irish Prime Minister. It was intended to build a Taoiseach’s official residence and State guest house on the site of the former Apostolic nunciature in Phoenix Park,
1979 – Entrance Block, Tara Hotel, London
Architect: Stephenson Associates
Originally a railway depot and goods yard, the Tara Hotel was constructed over 1971–1973 to a design by Building Design Associates and formally opened in February 1973.
1979 – Marks & Spencer, Mary Street, Dublin
Architect: Scott Tallon Walker
Grim department store with equally grim frontage onto nearby Liffey and Abbey Streets. Terrible commercial infill.
1979 – New Ireland Assurance Offices, Cavendish Row, Dublin
Architect: Campbell Conroy Hickey
“New Ireland Assurance Co Ltd topped out their latest property investment in Dublin last month at 7/8 Cavendish Row,
1979 – Royal Bank Plaza South, Toronto, Ontario
Architect: WZMH Architects
The two Royal Bank Plaza towers are connected by a 39-meter (130 foot) tall glass Banking Hall.
1979 – Shortlisted Design for Taoiseach’s Residence, Dublin
Architect: Lindsay Johnston
One of 15 entries shortlisted from 98 submissions to design a residence for An Taoiseach and state guesthouse at the Phoenix Park in Dublin.
1979 – St Patrick’s Church, Clogher, Co. Tyrone
Architect: Liam McCormick, McCormick Tracey Mullarkey Architects
Paul Larmour described St Patrick’s Church in ‘Architects of Ulster 1920s to 1970s’
