‘A vanguard of modern design’ – Should the North Terminal be demolished?

The original North Terminal building at Dublin Airport is a “vanguard of modern design” and should not be demolished, a leading journalist has said.

It is currently the home to a Garda Station at the airport and its future is up in the air in light of Dublin Airport’sEnvironment Editor Frank McDonald said many people are “unaware” the building even exists.“It's like a monument to the romantic era of air travel and I’m old enough to remember the lovely atmosphere that it had.”Mr McDonald said it was originally built to cope with the “growing demand of air travel” in the 1950s.

“Lots of famous people would have gone through the North Terminal over the years and it also served Irish troops going on UN missions overseas.”Mr McDonald said it was designed in the 1950s by the Transport Department’s chief architect Leo Carroll. “It’s seen as being of architectural, social, and cultural significance at the vanguard of modern design, comparable with the airport's original terminal building and other modern icons like Busáras on Store Street,” he said.

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