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Dublin Civic Trust

3 years

Dublin Civic Trust is delighted to receive a prestigious European Heritage Award/Europa Nostra Award for the conservation of #18Ormond Quay Upper. This accolade is for everyone who loves Dublin. @europanostra Please vote for us in the Public Choice Award!

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It is with regret that we announce the passing of what we've long held to be Dublin's smallest sash window, just off North Circular Road, dating to c.1880. The quantum leap in thermal gain bestowed by the PVC frame must be a sensation to behold. Rest in peace, little sashes.

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5 years

Ah, dear Dublin.

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4 years

This is the sensational transformation of 1 Capel Street, conserved to its seductive 1830s appearance as home to Warren bookbinders. All of Dublin should aspire to this standard. Well done #DanojDevelopments , contractor @TheNolansGroup , Kelly and Cogan Architects, Caomhán Murphy

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The distinctive green tint in the window sashes of ⁦⁦⁦ @tcddublin ⁩’s Examination Hall is caused by a concentration of iron oxide in the sand used to make its 1780s crown glass. The pinkish hue is the result of manganese used to counter the green tint. Magical survivors

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Thousands of visitors to Dublin and locals trooped home from Docklands at 00:05, visibly disappointed at the glaring absence of a civic celebration for #NYE . Our public bridges were barricaded and projections in George’s Dock were turned off. A terrible reflection of our capital.

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1 year

The Swan Bar introduces a blast of Roman sunshine to Dublin’s Aungier Street – an inspired colour choice from recent conservation works overseen by Lotts Architecture. Dating to 1897, the high Victorian public house likely incorporates fabric from the 17th and 18th centuries.

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This is the last intact house in the Spitalfields housing scheme in the Liberties, built in 1918 as part of Dublin Corporation’s efforts to relieve poor housing conditions. It retains its original slate roof, unpainted dashed upper facade, multi-pane sash windows and T&G door.

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Dublin Civic Trust

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Years under scaffolding, Dorset Street Fire Station has been revealed following @DubCityCouncil conservation, including brick repair and repointing. Spot the racy Art Nouveau stairs! Designed by City Architect C.J. McCarthy, it’s to become home to the Dublin Fire Brigade Museum.

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This radial pavement corner on John Street West, behind S.S. Augustine & John, is one of the last surviving granite fans in the city - most having been destroyed since the 1960s. It flanks an equally rare, untouched setted street surface, polished to a beautiful finish.

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4 years

There is no reason why Dublin should not aspire to streetscape excellence. These 18th and 19th century shop premises are its essential building blocks. They're not rocket science: they just require understanding of original design, materials, and basic good manners. #18Ormond

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Tucked down the side of the old Central Bank of Ireland are two of Dublin’s most architecturally significant houses, sandwiched in the middle of the surviving side of Fownes Street. Numbers 3 and 4 are important on several fronts. Firstly, they are early, dating to c.1720s 🧵

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4 years

North Georgian Dublin looking ravishing in the remains of the day.

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@dubcivictrust

3 years

Amazing seashell and sawdust 'pugging' was discovered under the floorboards of Leinster House during recent OPW work. Pugging was traditionally used for sound insulation and reducing vibration. In the 1740s-50s, the shoreline was much closer - roughly the site of the Grand Canal.

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Dublin Civic Trust is delighted to reveal our completely transformed merchant building at #18Ormond Quay Upper. It has been dramatically brought back from the brink, faithfully conserved and returned to its original 1843 appearance. Visit us on @CultureNight 2018 and learn more!

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3 years

This virtually untouched shop house in Blackrock is presently for sale. It is remarkably intact with a sombre frontage and a fine array of internal joinery, including this nimble staircase that manages to merge balustrades with a vernacular twist. Loving new owners only, please!

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6 years

Always worth giving an outing to this remarkable photograph of Annamoe Road in Cabra in the 1930s. Two worlds quite literally collide.

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@dubcivictrust

4 years

Planning permission has been emphatically REFUSED by Dublin City Council for demolition of Kildare Street Hotel collection of Georgian buildings. A well-considered planner's report and conservation officer's report rejected the proposals outright. Developer may now appeal to ABP.

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2 years

Dramatic additions to Beresford Place: a phalanx of apparently Leyland Cypresses has been parachuted by @DCCParksBiodiv into the crescent that encircles the Custom House, lending a Roman formality to its 1780s south front. Such confident investment is rare, startling and welcome.

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The original, urban prairie-like setting to Heuston (then Kingsbridge) Station, terminus to the Great Southern & Western Railway. Theatrically composed as a continental opera house, architect Sancton Wood's design picturesquely evokes the romance and anticipation of lands beyond.

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The first exciting step towards completion of our Georgian facade on Arran Street East is moving a step closer with the strike of upper scaffolding. Lurking under the pebbledash is another Dublin brick beauty, dating to the 1750s. The 1840s shopfront is presently being restored.

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This Leeson Street sash window is in remarkable original condition, with handblown cylinder glass, concave horns, slender glazing bars and 'feathered' lime-rendered reveals. The delicate wrought-iron balconette features a repeating diamond pattern typical of the 1830s.

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The spectacular enfilade of oak and walnut doorcases in the National Gallery of Ireland was carved in the workshop of Carlo Cambi in Siena to the designs of Thomas Manly Deane, and shipped to Ireland c.1899. They were recently restored by Conservation Letterfrack in Co. Galway.

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Three months on from US President Joe Biden’s visit, entire streets of Dublin’s Scotch Standard lampposts are still trussed in ugly security straps. Worse still, @DubCityCouncil crews are now painting over them! Who in central government is responsible for paying for remediation?

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‘Big Jim’ Larkin’s unmistakable silhouette cutting through the chilly fog enveloping O’Connell Street. Sculptor Oisín Kelly, 1979.

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Clinging on by its fingernails: the last Dublin Corporation house on Harolds Cross Road in pretty much original condition, including its unpainted, beautifully crafted concrete boundary wall, wrought metal gate, and horizontally glazed, timber casement windows and door.

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The luxe Art Deco interiors of the former Department of Industry and Commerce, Kildare Street on view for this weekend’s #OpenHouseDublin . Built in 1938-42 to the designs of J. R. Boyd Barrett, the steel-framed structure hosts Australian walnut, brass and lino encrusted interiors

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This is possibly Dublin’s only pivoting fanlight in a Georgian house at 22 Gardiner Place, one of the ‘bookend’ houses of Mountjoy Square. It’s probably a 20th-century alteration of an original, multi-pane arrangement common to when the house was built c.1800.

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#TheGreatHouseRevival series is a terrible showcase for Ireland’s built heritage. Here’s why: 1/ Old houses are regularly gutted with little or no analysis of why the works are needed or are considered necessary. Most episodes involve shameful destruction of historic fabric.

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Dublin Civic Trust

@dubcivictrust

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Another day, another skip on Capel Street packed with early Georgian fabric, including paired staircase newel posts. Some of the thick timber joists and planking appear to be oak, likely dating from the late 1600s.

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6 years

The newly repainted Ha’penny Bridge looking resplendent in its new coat of off-white paint - the original colour on completion in 1816. Note the commonly overlooked ‘rustic’ granite abutments that the bridge springs from. A rare example of Dublin Regency aesthetic.

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A dash of Naples on Talbot Street. No. 2 straddles that intangible line between romantic decay and maintenance horror show. Either way, there is no excuse for such appalling neglect in the centre of the capital. This c.1840s Roman cement facade is crying out for conservation.

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This beautiful example of wrought ironwork on Pembroke Street is one of the last surviving 'lamp irons' in Dublin. Prior to (and after) the adoption of gas lighting in 1825, streets were illuminated with oil globes mounted on railings, filled daily by lifting the tin chimney hat.

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Dublin City Council has just granted planning permission for the demolition of one of the last protected mews buildings on Gardiner Street. It is worth comparing with beautiful accommodation created by @IrishLandmark at Merrion Mews. The northside has, again, been short-changed.

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We’ve been floored (ahem) by the outpouring of love and appreciation for Dublin’s historic paving - something @AnTaisce has been promoting for decades. The Fan Club has been born! Here’s one of the best, clinging on for life outside the former Knobs & Knockers, Nassau Street.

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These two historic buildings on Abbey Street were demolished by @AXA under the guise of a 'temporary' permission for a garden, green wall, seating, paving, planter boxes, 26 bicycle parking spaces and 7 parking spaces. It has been used as a van site ever since. What's the story?

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4 years

How to vent in the public realm (aside from on Twitter): 19th-century style and 21st-century style. O’Connell Street Upper, Dublin.

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Dublin’s glorious brick tradition, marshalled cliff-like along the hill of Belvedere Place towards Mountjoy Square. The sharp differential in house size denotes changing economic climates, from the gentrified era of the 1790s to the emerging middle classes of the 1840s.

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45 St. Stephen’s Green must host one of the oldest Virgina creepers in Dublin, its massive knarled trunk sprawling up the soft bricks of its 18th-century façade for the best part of a century. This curious house, belying hipsterisation, is wonderfully intact beneath the leaves 🧵

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This type of scene from #NYE 2017 should never be repeated in Dublin; citizens excluded from their own party. We must aim for inclusive celebrations, coordinated by all the relevant authorities to showcase our city to best advantage - by us, for us, and for visitors to our shores

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By coincidence, I just came across these pics I took on the night. What a miserable sight.

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This delicate neoclassical fanlight on Gardiner Place, Dublin 1, survived the trend for Victorian plate glass and later replacements. It dates to the original construction of the house around 1795, designed as a complementary pairing with the cut stone swag frieze underneath.

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3 years

An Bord Pleanála has lost the plot, granting full planning for this monster of a 9-storey hotel wedding cake in the Capel Street Architectural Conservation Area against the advice of its own inspector and a refusal by Dublin City Council. The City Development Plan is worthless.

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Dublin Civic Trust

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4 years

This is of the few surviving integrated fanlight lanterns in Dublin, on Pembroke Street, dating to c.1815-20. These remarkably delicate lamps, surrounded by lead or zinc enrichments and mounted with a (possibly tin) hat, once hosted a tallow candle or two accessed from inside.

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In two decades of observing public realm schemes in Dublin, we’ve never seen a delivery as fast and professional as the Liffey Street project. Hats off to Cairn Construction, suppliers Ryanstone and the design team. Beautiful Leinster granite has been set down in recent days.

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4 years

Before + After. The Wyatt window to the rear of 4 Castle Street, fomer Barnwell's shoe repair shop, meticulously conserved for us by the late Paul Lawrence, an exceptional master joiner. Note the incredibly fine sash members and handblown cylinder dating to the early 1800s.

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We have reported this gratuitous advertising by @eir on Henry Street to Dublin City Council. It has been in place for almost two years, right next to the GPO. The banners are drilled into ceramic-faced decorative faience which was only recently conserved. Dublin deserves better.

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3 years

House restoration was a shocking act of uncalled-for goodness and generosity

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3 years

Dublin Civic Trust has objected to the closure of the ESB Number 29 Georgian House Museum for proposed conversion into apartments. The dismantling of the museum, without stakeholder consultation or adequate replacement, is unbecoming of a semi-state entity

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Ulster Bank, Lower O'Connell Street (soon to become history as per the Hibernian Bank before it) is one of those rare breeds to undergo architectural atonement. Its 1923 lower facade, butchered c.1980, was faithfully reinstated by Consarc Design Group 15 years ago. A fine legacy.

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The Christmas illumination of O’Connell Monument is, incredibly, the first time this nationally significant public sculpture has ever been lit. It vividly demonstrates how effective soft white illumination would be year-round, lending the civic recognition and dignity it deserves

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2 years

The elegant restaurant seating on Palace Street, unbranded and unenclosed, is a model for the entire city centre. Yet it is almost the only example of its kind and a far cry from the shanty aesthetic now engulfing Dublin’s streets, which needs to be firmly arrested by regulation.

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Our beautiful riverscape was partly blocked with Harris fencing while the public strained to ‘borrow’ one minute of pyrotechnics from a distant, ticketed concert stage - all supported by public funds. Dublin deserves so much better than this.

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Dublin City Council, transport and private crews are already completing the monumental clean-up operation on O’Connell Street today. It’s a huge credit to all, including the Gardaí, that our main thoroughfare was back open so early this morning, defying the thuggery of last night

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Glowing in evening light, Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge is immaculately maintained by @DubCityCouncil . Following a scourge of ‘love locks’, stickering and general grubbiness in recent years, it’s clear that a new maintenance regime on the city’s Regency landmark is really paying off.

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After 800 years of habitation by the St. Lawrence/Gaisford-St. Lawrence family, Howth Castle's irreplaceable contents are being distributed to the four winds by auction this week. If ever there was a key historic property for State acquisition, Howth Castle ticked all the boxes.

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3 years

While Insta+Facebook get in a flap, let's have a look at some north Georgian streetscapes. The view from Gardiner Place to Mountjoy Square is exceptional, framed by serried ranks of window reveals and the great plume of lime trees from the public park. The kink adds some kink.

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Almost 1,500 square feet of cement-based pebbledash were removed from the facades of #18Ormond Quay by our contractors @TheNolansGroup . They immaculately reproduced the ochre-toned wigged pointing based on an original sample that survived behind a street sign. #EuropaNostraAwards

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This beautifully composed group of shop houses at Westland Row and Merrion Street is one of the last works of the Wide Streets Commission, dating to the 1840s. It features granite and stucco enrichments (a rare win), fragments of old shopfronts and rare surviving paved platforms.

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4 years

An unbelieveable application has been lodged by Ternary Ltd, developer of the Setanta Centre, for mass demolition of the late Georgian terrace that comprises The Kildare Street Hotel. A developer deeming such an outlandish plan even worthwhile is seriously concerning Ref: 4414/19

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@dubcivictrust

4 years

Surely a human eye did not fall on the compliance drawings for these new shopfronts on Westland Row? This is the very worst design practice for shopfront treatment, where the design bluntly straddles two handsome Victorian premises of differing proportions. What a shame.

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3 years

Hallelujah! We can see Clerys now the crane is (almost) gone. As the scaffolding descends, gleaming white Portland stone frames glowering masses of double-height, bronzy-toned iron windows. O’Connell Street hasn’t looked so good since the late 1920s. A refreshing new bar is set.

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A shimmering symphony of handblown cylinder glass in the newly conserved facade of Meaghers of Eden Quay. Every single one of the original sash window panes survives in this quietly sophisticated little building, reconstructed after 1916 to designs of architect Thomas J. Cullen.

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2 years

Plans for the @3olympiatheatre include erecting oddly Art Deco signage on what is a high Victorian music hall. Is anything not in the modernist oeuvre beyond the scope of the architectural profession? Proposed joinery work and tidy-up are welcome, but Three Shades of Grey... zzzz

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This is the scandalous new facade of @PointAHotels Parnell Street, which was supposed to have a high grade, honed, pre-cast concrete finish but is clad in revolting fibre cement rainscreen panels. An insult to the north Georgian core, how did this get through planning compliance?

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2 years

Casino Marino is one of Ireland’s architectural jewels and a masterpiece of European neoclassicism, perched on a grassy plot in the midst of north Dublin suburbia. Now fully reopened, plan your summer visit with superb free guided tours & exhibition. @opwireland @TheCasinoMarino

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The dramatic scene behind 61-62 Thomas Street where a new office building is being gingerly stitched around a pair of hugely significant late 17th-century buildings. 61 was 'The Golden Last' inn and its astonishing, rare surviving 1680s beamed interior has been recently revealed.

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J. Dempsey, Dorset Street Lower was one of the most historically redolent shop premises we'd ever inspected back in 2014 - virtually untouched since the late 19th century. Sadly, it was entirely demolished behind the shopfront in recent years. Not even the upper facade survives.

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This is one of Dublin’s last 1903 Scotch Standard lampposts to retain its original pulley wheel in its holder near the shaft collar. This was used in the days before mechanised hoists to lower the original globe lamp to access its carbon arc rod, which needed regular replacement.

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Great to see the facade of Connolly Station finally undergoing conservation works after years of patching up and strapping. Built in 1844-46 at a cost of £7000, the terminus’s Italianate tower was designed by architect William Deane Butler to be visible from the Nelson Pillar.

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3 years

We're finally starting facade works to 67 Arran Street East, building on our sash window reinstatement earlier in the year. The building is a curious remnant from the 1760s and has much to reveal over the coming months. Supported by @HeritageHubIRE celebrating @HeritageWeek 2021.

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We may have needlessly lost the handsome Twilfit House at the corner of Middle Abbey Street and Jervis Street for yet another incoming hotel development, but a silver lining is the exciting archaeological dig currently taking place on the footprint of the 1920s factory 🧵

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Tucked among the plane trees of Drumcondra Road Lower are these sensational Greek revival railings, their stern piers bristling with anthemion motifs. They defend a trio of late Georgian houses, c.1820 - forming part of a seemingly aborted terrace, later infilled with Victoriana.

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The entrance loggia of Dublin City Hall, sheltered beneath its principal portico terminating the vista along Parliament Street, is one of the most sophisticatedly wrought spaces in the capital. It was designed by architect Thomas Cooley at the astonishingly young age of just 28.

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The shimmering blown cylinder sheet glass in the windows of the former Sick & Indigent Roomkeepers Society on Dublin’s Palace Street is always a delight to behold, dating from an 1850s upgrade of this late Georgian building as originally built under the Wide Streets Commission.

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This is the most important development in decades for the north side of the city. An international calibre project that respects Dublin's grain and rhythm, providing an outstanding social facility. Parnell Square new library and plaza approved @IrishTimes

Parnell Square plan with new library and plaza is approved

Development is expected to cost about €110m - almost double its original estimate

www.irishtimes.com

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Pandemics are no match for the essential work of Dublin's PVC merchants. These beauties have just landed in a Protected Structure overlooking the 18th-century Rotunda, replacing timber sashes. Parnell Square & North Frederick Street are out of control in planning non-compliance.

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The truly horrible new detailing to Commercial Buildings unfolding on Dame Street. Unbelievably, the matt silver framing - redolent of a 1990s Beko TV set - was granted permission as a change from anodized bronze! Also permitted was misalignment of transoms with string courses.

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An Bord Pleanála has rightly refused a planning appeal proposing the demolition of Quinn's pub in Drumcondra, noting the contribution the historic pub makes to the character of the area. It's a blow to the systematic attrition of old houses on this site for well over a decade.

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New landscaping and tree planting at the north end of Capel Street/Ryder’s Row by @DCCParksBiodiv , bounded by new Leinster granite kerbs. It marks the beginning of the Capel Street interim public realm enhancement, to be delivered along the entire street by the start of summer.

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9 Merchant's Quay was one of the first buildings brought back from the brink by @dubcivictrust in conjunction with @DubCityCouncil . The late Georgian facade cloaks a pair of conjoined houses, one likely of late 17thC origin. The granite rustication is one of the joys of the quays

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We were treated to a fascinating study morning on the pioneering conservation works being undertaken for the @defenceforces at McKee Barracks by Shane Nolan of @nolansgroup and Taylor McCarney Architects on this Victorian architectural extravaganza of moulded brick and clay tile.

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Last of a kind. A relatively untouched villa, c.1850, NCR. Expensive two-over-two sash windows with improved cylinder glass at upper ground floor level, older-fashioned eight-over-eight sash windows at basement level. Restrained fanlight over bracketed doorcase. Gorgeous granite.

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This doorcase on Nelson Street may have seen better days, but it is beautifully intact. It retains its original 11-panel door, the panels recessed in the restrained fashion of the opening years of the 19th century. Above, a spiderweb of delicate glazing fills the fanlight...

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Former Fay’s Dancing Shoes on Great Denmark Street is being sympathetically conserved, revealing the late Victorian Roman cement make-up of the shopfront and historic fascia lettering - once a post office. It forms part of a consciously designed trio of shops with superb joinery.

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A fascinating discovery has been made at the former The Quill pub, now @copperandstraw , at 1 Arran Quay. The Roman cement parapet cornice, added to the building c.1886, was built up using sandstone paving drainage channels, almost certainly salvaged from the nearby Ormond Market.

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The newly planted boxes on O’Connell Bridge have made an enormous impact, generously scaled, full of movement and packed with pollinators. The elegant paint scheme is transformative: finally erasing the pastel horrors of the past few years. A major thumbs up to @DCCParksBiodiv

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4 years

A rare surviving example of a Dublin coal hole cover where the circular drainage channel and outlet to the gutter remain in perfect alignment. The cast-iron cover decoration is polished almost to oblivion. A shame about the cement strap pointing. Merrion Street, Dublin.

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4 years

This gorgeous dark slab of chocolate is a whimsical take on a Georgian bedroom door, serving as the western entrance to Blessington Street Basin. Amazingly, it has survived since its likely installation 210 years ago, protecting the city's water supply. How? It's solid cast iron.

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Dublin Civic Trust

@dubcivictrust

3 years

The outstanding success of this @DubCityCouncil pedestrianisation firmly points to the need to keep it, expand it and execute it elsewhere in the city. The embracing of Grattan Bridge and the wider Liffey crossing for unfettered public amenity has been the real star of the show.

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@DubCityCouncil

3 years

Over the last 11 weeks, more than 300,000 people have experienced the traffic-free streets of Capel St & Parliament St. This weekend is the final scheduled weekend so be sure to check it out! #Dublin #CityRecovery #Pedestrianisation

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Merrion Street projects a quiet governmental grandeur with Georgian brick facades confronted with Edwardian bombast. It's one of the few uncluttered streets in Dublin: no bollards, litter bins or signage. Historic granite paving and Hammond Lane lampposts uphold a civic standard.

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Dublin Civic Trust

@dubcivictrust

9 months

Heritage groups urge State to buy last great Georgian mansion built in Dublin

Call comes as permission expires for Aldborough House office redevelopment

www.irishtimes.com

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Dublin Civic Trust

@dubcivictrust

3 years

The Pillar Room underneath @GateTheatreDub is one of the overlooked public interiors of Georgian Dublin. Completed in the early 1790s to the designs of Frederick Trench and Richard Johnston, it formed part of the 'New Assembly Rooms' complex which is still remarkably intact.

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Dublin Civic Trust

@dubcivictrust

4 years

O'Connell Street Upper was first laid out by developer Luke Gardiner c.1748 as an elongated residential square named Sackville Mall. Oliver Grace's perspective view, c.1750, (deceptively still incomplete) shows the grandeur of the houses and the central obelisk-lined promenade.

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Dublin Civic Trust

@dubcivictrust

2 years

This unusually large, ten-over-ten window on Dublin’s Baggot Street retains most of its original handblown glass. Windows of this size tended to take a Wyatt formation, divided by mullions, to reduce strain on the opening sashes. The slender profiles achieved here are remarkable.

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Dublin Civic Trust

@dubcivictrust

1 year

The beautifully restored facade of @copperandstraw , formerly The Quill, is released from scaffolding on Arran Quay. Its c.1840 facade has been expertly pointed by @MichalKosciak of Magee Conservation using traditional Irish wigging and its 1880s Roman cement cornice repaired.

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Dublin Civic Trust

@dubcivictrust

3 years

This impressive stretch of 'metalled' surfacing - cobbling - has been newly revealed as part of the preparatory works for the redesign of Wolfe Tone Park - formerly the graveyard of St. Mary's Church. It appears to be sited in the middle of Stafford Street on Rocque's 1756 map.

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@dubcivictrust

1 year

The distinctive lavender-toned glazed lanterns flanking the portico of Iveagh House, St. Stephen’s Green, are amongst the best surviving historic lamps in Dublin. Originally powered by gas, the quirky dash of colour is one of the better legacies of c.1980s design intervention.

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Dublin Civic Trust

@dubcivictrust

2 years

The historic north Liffey quays captured in the limelight of a November evening. “They are the frontispiece to the city and the nation: grand, yet human in scale, varied yet orderly, they present a picture of a satisfactory city community” The Architectural Review November 1974

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@dubcivictrust

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Tucked behind the great London plane trees of the North Circular Road is arguably the best-finished apartment building erected in Dublin city centre in the past decade. The Schoolyard development of 61 apartments was built by I-RES as an extension of its existing Baker’s Yard 🧵

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