1964 – St. Stephen’s Green House, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin

Architect: Boyle & Delaney

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Constructed on the site of the Magdalen Asylum on Lower Leeson Street after an architectural competition in 1960. The winning design was bt Liam Boyle and Seamus Delaney, both housing architects at Dublin Corporation at the time. They set up in private practice on the strength of this commission for the Irish Sugar Company. The building spans the corner between Lower Leeson Street and Earlsfort Terrace, looming over a couple of Georgian buildings on the corner to St. Stephen’s Green.

During the early 1990s, two small office buildings were completed as part of a development to Earlsfort Terrace that masked the podium and reduced the building’s impact to the streetscape.