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O'Connell Bridge House

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425: 38: 354:. At the time it was first opened, the lease on the Guinness sign took in more revenue than all the office space. The construction took 500 tons of structural steel, 90 tons of steel-reinforcing bars, and 7500 tons of concrete. Upon completion, it was 145 feet tall. It contains 45000 square feet of office space, but no car parking. The planning laws requiring one car parking space per 500 square feet of office space were waived for this development. The original plan was to build a matching block on the opposite side of the river, on the site of the 51: 416: 434: 389: 443: 407: 398: 58: 372:
declares that, "the design of this 12-storey building is the epitome of its time, when new commercial schemes generally showed no regard for site or context. However, because of its scale and location, O'Connell Bridge House makes probably the single most brutal intrusion into Dublin's urban design -
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outside the rear exit door of the Film Centre Cinema, at O'Connell Bridge House, injuring 40 people.
355: 388: 342:. On its north face is a clock and a large advertising space; it has in the past bore the names of 282: 139: 108: 83: 549: 442: 589: 579: 496: 433: 119: 625: 313: 406: 368: 335: 675: 374: 302: 274: 397: 306: 196: 98: 531: 168: 155: 593: 465:"Geograph:: O'Connell Bridge House, or the Heineken... (C) Stephen Sweeney" 573: 351: 343: 464: 487: 322:
Having been the primary tenant since the completion of the block, the
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20th-century architecture in the Republic of Ireland
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O'Connell Bridge House is located in Central Dublin
O'Connell Bridge
Topped-out
Modernist
D'Olier Street
Dublin
Republic of Ireland
Coordinates
53°20′49″N 6°15′30″W / 53.346841°N 6.258253°W / 53.346841; -6.258253
IR£
John Byrne
office block
Dublin
Republic of Ireland
Carlisle House
John Byrne
Irish pounds
Des Traynor
loyalists
planted a bomb
Department of the Environment
Portland stone
Desmond FitzGerald
Guinness
Sony
Heineken
Ballast Office
The Irish Times
Liberty Hall

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