Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, GOVERNMENT OFFICES
Name: | WEBB, ASTON (SIR) # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, GOVERNMENT OFFICES |
Date: | 1912-18 |
Nature: | With Thomas Manly Deane (second phase of Royal College of Science/Government Offices scheme consisting of front portion of quadrangle). Builder: McLaughlin & Harvey. Estimated cost: £123,350. |
Refs: | Drawings in NA, OPW collection, old ref. H.H.0; IAA, PKS 0133, 0958, 1233, A09 (Mar 1912); RA 1913, no. 1681; IB 47, 29 Jul 1905, 525; 54, 20 Jan,26 Oct,21 Dec 1912, 34,601,727; Building News 102, 14 Jun 1912, 864; 106, 2 Jan 1914, 5-8(illus.); AJ 59, 27 Feb 1924, 365(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 560. |
Name: | DEANE, THOMAS MANLY (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, GOVERNMENT OFFICES |
Date: | 1912-18 |
Nature: | With Aston Webb (second phase of Royal College of Science/Government Offices scheme consisting of front portion of quadrangle). Builder: McLaughlin & Harvey.. |
Refs: |
Drawings in NA, OPW collection, old ref. H.H.0; IAA, PKS 0133, 0958,1233, missing account book A02 (old ref. A/09(38)); RA 1913, no. 1681; IB 47, 29 Jul 1905, 525; 54, 20 Jan,26 Oct,21 Dec 1912, 34,601,727; Building News 102, 14 Jun 1912, 864; 106, 2 Jan 1914, 5-8(illus.); AJ 59, 27 Feb 1924, 365(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 560. |
Name: | SHEPPARD, OLIVER * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, GOVERNMENT OFFICES |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | ' The seated figure of Science [on parapet] over main portico and the figures of Rowan Hamilton (l.) and Robert Boyle flanking the entrance wer conceived by Oliver Sheppard but executed by others...' (Casey). |
Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 560. |