Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PEARSE STREET, NO. 001-8 (POLICE HEADQUARTERS)
Name: | BURKE, MARTIN JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PEARSE STREET, NO. 001-8 (POLICE HEADQUARTERS) |
Date: | 1912 |
Nature: | With H.G. Leask and Andrew Robinson for OPW. |
Refs: | Drawings formerly in OPW, Stephen's Green, now(?) in National Archives, Office of Public Works collection (not in online catalogue); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 453-4. |
Name: | LEASK, HAROLD GRAHAM |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PEARSE STREET, NO. 001-8 (POLICE HEADQUARTERS) |
Date: | 1912-1915 |
Nature: | New headquarters replacing former headquarters in Exchange Court.; 'the building of which perhaps he[HGL] was most proud' (Oibre). With A. Robinson and M.J. Burke. Design criticised as being too austere in Irish Times. |
Refs: |
Drawings formerly in OPW, Stephen's Green, now(?) in National Archives, Office of Public Works collection (not in online catalogue); Irish Times, 8 Jan 1916; Oibre 7 (May 1969), 11; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 453-4. |
Name: | ROBINSON, ANDREW |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PEARSE STREET, NO. 001-8 (POLICE HEADQUARTERS) |
Date: | 1913 |
Nature: | New. In course of erection, Aug 1913. Designed with M.J. Burke and H.G. Leask. Walls of Co. Dublin granite with Ballyknockan grantie dressings. Contractor: J. & R. Thompson, Fairview.. |
Refs: | IB 55, 2 Aug,8 Nov 1913, 502,708,722(illus.); Building News 105, 8 Aug 1913, 203; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 453-4. |