1887 – Greek Orthodox Church, Arbour Hill, Dublin
Architect: George Smith A former National School, the small building is now the home of the Greek Orthodox congregation in Dublin. An external mosaic icon has been added to a closed up window,...
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1851 – St. Michan’s Presbytery, Halston Street, Dublin
Architect: John Bourke A fine presbytery house sited next to its church. Now facing across the public park created on the site of Newgate Gaol. Shame about the nasty uPVC windows that have...
1877 – Nos. 12-13 Cornmarket, Dublin
Architect: McCurdy & Mitchell Large stone-faced commercial building with a rather grim facade.
1930 – Dunlop Building, Stephen St., Dublin
A fine building on a gently curving site with Art Deco detailing added as offices to existing factory. The single bay building with bay window marks the entrance to the main factory, which...
Dream buildings, drawn in bed
Liam McCormick (1916-1996) was close to being Ireland’s Alvar Aalto. Like the great Finnish architect, he was a committed but not doctrinaire modernist who found inspiration in the context of place and produced...
“Bikes-for-Billboards” scheme exposes major planning flaws
It sounded like a fairytale, yet what was initially hailed as “free bikes” has become one of the biggest planning controversies to hit the capital in years. The so-called “metropole” plan – whereby...
Rooms with views and wind-fighting walls
Holiday homeowners want their retreats to have a different spirit to their normal homes and that comes out in the brief to architects. “It is all about the views, as well as capturing...
Bord Gáis Networks – National Distribution Control Building Competition
The RIAI (Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland) is administering a competition on behalf of the competition promoters, Bord Gáis Networks (BGN). This is an open, two stage competition for the architectural...
Grangegorman: all in by 2010
The development of the 73-acre Grangegorman site that will provide a new home for the Dublin Institute of Technology represents the single largest educational project in the history of the state. Provisions being...