1968 – Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin
Built as an Arts faculty and containing lecture theatres and seminar rooms, libraries, an art gallery and administration and social facilities for over 200 staff and 3,700 graduates and undergraduates.
Built as an Arts faculty and containing lecture theatres and seminar rooms, libraries, an art gallery and administration and social facilities for over 200 staff and 3,700 graduates and undergraduates.
Perspective of the new technical college on Kevin Street.
Opened as the Curzon Cinema, and later the Lighthouse, the entrance foyer to this cinema was distinctly modern.
The Kevin Street campus of the Dublin Institute of Technology wass a large purpose built structure opened in 1968.
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.
Formerly in use as back-office accommodation for Allied Irish Banks. Demolished to make way for new office accommodation in early 21st century.
Another one of the horrific buildings in this area, Apollo House with its pseudo-greek lettering,
Thirteen floors of office space in a very sensitive location behind Fitzwilliam Place and on the banks of the Grand Canal,
Originally when completed, the window bands were fully glazed, with panels of clear glass. Later tinted panels were inserted to create a combination of glass and solid panels –
Office accommodation from the late 1960s, a rather grim exercise in concrete and projecting windows replacing a number of smaller Victorian commercial premises.
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