1963 – Former Intercontinental Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin
Constructed for the Intercontinental Hotel chain, designed by their architect William B.
Constructed for the Intercontinental Hotel chain, designed by their architect William B.
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.
Demolished in 2001, Downes Meehan & Robson’s headquarters for the Irish Life Assurance Company was one of the earliest office development outside of the city centre,
Beautiful interior space to this mid 1960s church designed by Andrew Devane. The uninterrupted clerestory windows are worth noting as the chapel roof is supported by the interior columns.
Carroll’s of Grand Parade was designed and built in 1962-64 which was a period of great modernisation in Ireland both of society and of the city of Dublin.
One of the better buildings of the 1960s in Dublin is the office headquarters for the New Ireland Assurance Company on Dawson Street.
Constructed on the site of the Magdalen Asylum on Lower Leeson Street after an architectural competition in 1960.
A fine example of modern architecture in the heart of leafy Ballsbridge, the three storey over basement United States Embassy blends in well with the Victorian architecture of the area.
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.
Definitely not the most popular building in Dublin but for many years it was the tallest,