1959 – Insurance Corporation of Ireland, Dame Street, Dublin
Architects: Downes, Meehan & Robson
New modern facade placed on four existing buildings including their own 1936 head office designed by Vincent Downes.
1960 – Kayser Bondor Lingerie, 27 Wicklow St., Dublin
Architect: Stephenson Gibney & Associates
Modern shop facade by Stephenson Gibney to existing commercial building on Wicklow Street. Kayser Bondor were one of the largest suppliers of nylon stockings in the UK at this time and had a chain of shops throughout the UK and Ireland in the early 1960s.
1960s – The Pearl Bar, Fleet St., Dublin
Architect: Garry Trimble
Possibly built to designs of architect and sculptor Garry Trimble. Also believed that Signa, an Irish design group led by Michael Scott may have had some input into the facade and interior.
1961 – Restaurant, Brown Thomas, Grafton Street Dublin
Architect: Stephenson Gibney & Associates
One of a series of interiors by Sam Stephenson for Brown Thomas in their old location on the eastern side of Grafton Street.
1962 – Former Bord Failte, Baggot Street, Dublin
Architect: Robin Walker, Michael Scott & Associates
Designed to cost as little as possible, the former headquarters of Bord Failte (Irish Tourist Board) occupied a very important site at the Baggot Street crossing of the Grand Canal.
1962 – Hawkins House, Poolbeg Street, Dublin
Architect: Sir Thomas Bennett / O’Connor & Alyward
In a poll in 1998, this was voted the worst building in Dublin by the readers of Archiseek.
1963 – Nassau House, Nassau Street, Dublin
Architect: Lardner & Partners
One of three office blocks built along here by Norwich Union in the 1960s, destroying a collection of varied Victorian commercial buildings in the process.
1965 – Bank Of Ireland, Suffolk Street, Dublin
Architect: Robin Walker, Michael Scott & Partners
Miesian infill from Robin Walker of Michael Scott & Partners for the National Bank.
1965 – Former ESB Headquarters, Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin
Architect: Stephenson Gibney & Associates
Fitzwilliam Street once the longest expanse of intact Georgian architecture anywhere in the world was destroyed in the 1960s when the ESB a supposedly responsible semi-state body wantonly demolished twelve of the houses.
1965 – McConnell House, Charlemont Place, Dublin
Architect: McDonnell & Dixon
Described by Frank McDonald in ‘The Destruction of Dublin’ as “truly dreadful” and by Plan Magazine as “leggy piece of non-architecture….
