Hmmm.
Looks like Dublin somewhere.
Hmmm.
FUPP!
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
“It was the Christian Science Library on Baggot Street [built in 1928] which was pulled down over a bank holiday weekend in 1974. Concerned citizens who saw the beginning of the demolition were unable to contact anyone from Dublin Corporation, by the time the staff returned after the bank holiday weekend it was too late. Replaced by the Bord na Mona now O2 building (above) designed by F
ianna Fail architect in residenceSam Stephenson. “
Temple or glass thing?
You decide.
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Far from the worst thing Sam did. All of Dublin’s worst eyesores were designed by him (except the litter problem).
ESB offices – Ruined the best Georgian street in the world
Wood Quay – A horrible building instead of a world class research and tourist amenity.
Central Bank . A huge white-headed pimple on the face of Dame Street.
*Civic offices was designed by Scott Tallon Walker
Yep. We should have left the architecture to the Brits.
best bad link yet!
on topic , we are a country full of idiots, no wonder it was pulled. look at the s**t we are left with, central bank for one, civic offices, stupid anglo shell should be demolished also! grrr
speak for yourself
seen any good decisions lately?
Ah the old demolish on a Bank Holiday tactic. Happened to a listed Mill in my home town a few years back. They got away with it too.
You mean – they didn’t rebuild it after being found out?
The same thing happened to Archer’s garage on Fenian St. Dublin, in 1999. DCC forced the developer to reinstate a replica, which may have served to reduce the attractiveness of this type of stunt to developers. Which goes to show that listed status is only useful if the relevant authorities have the powers to ensure that any unauthorized changes are penalised harshly, and the willingness to exercise those powers. As DCC showed, the powers seem to be in place now, the willingness of all local authorities to exercise them against wealthy developers is more doubtful.
We are a design illiterate nation. We’re not taught art appreciation in school so we don’t know what we’re looking at most of the time.
This wasn’t a lack of knowledge on the finer points of Doric columns – this was greed and vandalism in the name of same.
Don’t let them off by blaming their education.
Yeah. They don’t have opportunistic developers in other countries. Buildings just spring up like mushrooms.
Yeah, but s**t on a pavement comes from an ass!
This is so true, and furthermore – civics is not properly taught either so large sections of the population have no concept of civic pride.
Built 1928. I’d be surprised if it was built to the high standards of other examples of neo classical architecture which rightly have been preserved.
On the money, just because it has a few columns doesn’t make it a Greek temple or a Roman portico..low grade neo classical stuff, not worth getting the knickers twisted. Now Sam’s pièce isn’t exactly a thing of beauty either.. But, I am veering towards it.
Christian Science? That sounds Protestant! Tear it down! Or it’ll be off to the Industrial School with ye!
1. O2 moved down to the docks in 2005
2, O2 IRL is no more really, it’s 3IE
3. Building is supposedly haunted (from the handyman who knows that building better than Sam)
4. There’s a small car park around the back, used to be a turf hopper, heating back in the BnM days
5. Nice building to work in actually