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….
1967 – Carrisbrook House, Northumberland Road, Dublin
Architect: McDonnell & Dixon
Grim office block on an important corner site in Ballsbridge, Carrisbrook House was built on the site of a large Victorian house.
1967 – Standard Life Assurance Co., 59 Dawson Street, Dublin
Architect: McDonnell & Dixon
A restained modern insertion into a Victorian streetscape replacing a building of 1867 by Alfred G.
1968 – Guardian Assurance, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Architect: McDonnell & Dixon
Designed for the Guardian Assurance Company, this five-storey office building terminated an important vista from Earlsfort Terrace as well as being the last building along the Shelbourne Hotel side of the Green.
Joseph Vincent Downes (1891-1967)
Joseph Vincent Downes studied at University College Dublin and as an apprentice with O’Callaghan & Webb, graduating 1920. Worked in London with Herbert Baker,
