1973 – Western Tangent Ring Road, Dublin
Illustrations to demonstrate the effect of the Western Tangent Road as suggested by the 1973 Central Dublin Traffic Plan by R.
Illustrations to demonstrate the effect of the Western Tangent Road as suggested by the 1973 Central Dublin Traffic Plan by R.
Massive and obtrusive, Agriculture house is a large office block of concrete aggregate panels shoehorned into a tight site on Kildare Street.
One of the ugliest buildings to ever grace the city centre of Dublin,
Horrific office development that took the place of one of Dublin’s celebrated Findlater’s groceries store. Sold by the Findlater family in 1968 to the Lyons Group who had the buildings demolished in 1972 and this piece of rubbish erected by 1974 to their own designs.
Masterplan by Ronnie Tallon of Michael Scott & Partners, later Scott Tallon Walker, for a new broadcasting campus at Donnybrook.
Unbuilt proposal for the Moore Street facade of the Irish Life constructed shopping mall known as the ILAC – Irish Life Assurance Company.
The site at Wood Quay had been earmarked as a site for the headquarters of Dublin Corporation since the 1950s.
One of the oldest such centres in the greater Dublin area, Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre opened on Upper George’s Street in 1976,
In the 1970s, Córas Iompair Éireann, the state transport company, bought up many buildings in central Temple Bar with a view to building a large modern central bus station on the site.
A commercial headquarters on a US campus-style model with its heavily landscaped grounds, the AIB Bankgroup building was developed on lands belonging to the Royal Dublin Society across the road.