1962 – Nos. 1-7 Fountain Street, Belfast
Constructed for Norwich Union in the early 1960s. A six storey retail and office building extending to c.37,000 sq ft. Along Castle Street,
Constructed for Norwich Union in the early 1960s. A six storey retail and office building extending to c.37,000 sq ft. Along Castle Street,
The building faces south and is a five story concrete and glass structure over a podium on a steeply sloping site.
On 3 October 1960 the new Radio Éireann Authority signed a £500,000 contract for the construction of the television centre and offices at the proposed location in Donnybrook.
Bult as a more than 76,000 sq.ft replacement for the previous Victorian store which had been destroyed in a massive fire in 1958.
La Tour CIBC measures 187 meters in height and counts forty-five storeys.This slender tower has only 1,400 square meters per floor.
Sir Basil Spence’s concept for the redevelopment of the St James area in 1962. The proposal involved the total obliteration of Leith Street and the construction of a subterranean motorway below Waterloo Place.
Designed by architect Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and controversial in its design,