1913 – Dublin Municipal Offices Competition
The placed entries in a competition to design new offices for the then Dublin Corporation on Lord Edward Street,
The placed entries in a competition to design new offices for the then Dublin Corporation on Lord Edward Street,
With its giant Ionic order, this former theatre (the Pillar Picture House) is now sadly in use as a fast food restaurant.
With separate entrances for boys and girls,
Probably the strangest 20th Century building in Dublin and definitely the last hurrah of Victorian Gothic for a religious based institution,
Suburban cinema with its main entrance fronted by a cast iron and glass porch flanked by two commercial units.
Sketch design by the architect Horace T.
A small building with elaborate gable and unusual window arrangements.
According to the Irish Builder,
Plans entered in the Dublin Town Planning Competition of 1914.
Opened in 1914, the cinema sat 630 people and was originally known as the Manor Cinema.