1963 – Filling Station, Merrion Road, Dublin
Architect: Niall Montgomery
Montgomery was responsible for a few filling stations for Shell around Dublin. They had similar characteristics - long flat roofed buildings with clerestory windows, simple signage, and the maintenance or lubrication bay wit
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1958 – Petrol Filling Station, Rathmines, Dublin
Architect: O'Brien, Morris, & McCullough
The golden years of modernist filling stations in Ireland as the population entered the automobile age - when some of the leading Irish architects of the day designed filling stations. This is a smaller station in Rathmines, although wit
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1956 – Filling Station, Ashford, Co. Wicklow
Architect: William Maguire
Small country filling station designed for Esso, possibly by an inhouse architect. A softer form of modernism that was quite common around Ireland in the 1950s including some local stone as a foil for the flat roof aesthetic.
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Architect: William Maguire Small country filling station designed for Esso, possibly by an inhouse architect. A softer form of modernism that was quite common around Ireland in the 1950s including some local stone as a foil for the flat roof aesthetic.
1958 – Filling Station, Fortfield Rd, Terenure, Dublin
Architect: Niall Montgomery
Wainsfort Filling Station, designed by architect and poet Niall Montgomery at a time when companies were increasingly aware of their visual appearance and identity.
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Architect: Niall Montgomery Wainsfort Filling Station, designed by architect and poet Niall Montgomery at a time when companies were increasingly aware of their visual appearance and identity.
1958 – Filling Station, Clonskeagh, Dublin
Architect: Michael Scott
Stylistically linked to their Bridgefoot Street flats for Dublin Corporation (demolished 2006) and the offices for Stewart and Lloyds from around the same time. In 1950s Ireland, architects were increasingly being hired to design filling st
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Architect: Michael Scott Stylistically linked to their Bridgefoot Street flats for Dublin Corporation (demolished 2006) and the offices for Stewart and Lloyds from around the same time. In 1950s Ireland, architects were increasingly being hired to design filling stations or garages as the oil companies aspired to a cleaner modern image. Scott’s office also designed
1955 – Huntsman Service Station, Long Mile Road, Dublin
Architect: Adrinus Sjoer
Bright and airy polygonal service station with a mostly enclosed canopy for the pumps. At what was to become a major junction, this service station for Esso sadly no long
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Architect: Adrinus Sjoer Bright and airy polygonal service station with a mostly enclosed canopy for the pumps. At what was to become a major junction, this service station for Esso sadly no longer exists. Adrinus Sjoer was an architect with an address in Clondalkin.
From the "to read" pile comes The Construction Historian winter 2022.
Interesting article on the evolution of the concrete filling station canopy.
Rather disappointing article in the George Wimpey & Co No Fines system of housing. I read it believing that the "No Fines" system was going to be something socially radical that current house builders and planners might learn from. It turns out to be a type of concrete.
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