1973 – ACC House, Hatch Street, Dublin
On the corner of Harcourt and Hatch Street, this large office building was constructed on the site of the Court Laundry Co.,
On the corner of Harcourt and Hatch Street, this large office building was constructed on the site of the Court Laundry Co.,
Part of a proposed development called Wellington Square, St. Matthias’s Church was the only Irish church designed by Daniel Robertson.
Formerly ACC House, a 25 year old office building in need of total modernisation. Gilroy McMahon redesigned the building in its entirety –
Office building, on a site high above streetlevel adjacent to Harcourt Street railway station. Now demolished.
Large office development on a sloping site that allowed for underground parking. Finished with concrete aggregate panels that compliment the colour of the brickwork on Hatch Street.
The Leeson family owned this area but they let sites to John Hatch, after whom the street is named, in 1759.
Probably the strangest 20th Century building in Dublin and definitely the last hurrah of Victorian Gothic for a religious based institution,