Friday, March 15, 2013

Green Doodles Around the World

In honor of St. Patrick's day, not only does Dublin go green, so does the rest of the world.


According to the Irish Times today, "[t]he latest has been the 'Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas' sign on the edge of the Nevada desert which turned green last night and will remain 'greened' until next Monday evening."

Here are the buildings in Dublin that are "going green" -- I will post some of my own pix as they come!

• Christchurch
• Trinity
• GPO
• O’ Connell Bridge House
• Rotunda
• Heuston Station
• The Mansion House
• Phoenix Park – Wellington Monument & Phoenix Monument
• Áras an Uachtaráin
• Farmleigh – Water Tower
• Iveagh House
• War Memorial Park (Cross and 2 Fountains)
• Bank of Ireland, College Green
• Meeting House Square
• Leinster House (Merrion St side & Kildare St side).
• Dept. Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation (Kildare St.)
• Government Buildings
• Dublin Castle Lower Yard (Part of the Chapel Royal & Palace St. Entrance)
• Dublin Castle Upper Yard (2 Statues & Clock Tower)
• Dublin City Hall
• Dublin Civic Offices
• Dublin Bus Building, O’ Connell Street
• The Custom House
• Collins Barracks (Front facing River Liffey)
• Royal Hospital Kilmainham (RHK) – Clock tower
• National Gallery (Merrion St. side)
• Natural History Museum
• National Wax Museum
• National Concert Hall
• Dublin Airport: The “Spirals” on Terminal 1, the underpass at Terminal 2 & the original 1940s Terminal Building
• Cork & Shannon Airports
• Convention Centre
• The Jeanie Johnston
• Casino Marino
• St. Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre
• Entrance to St. Stephen’s Green (Grafton St. Corner & Shelbourne Hotel Corner)
• St. Stephen’s Green Member’s Club
• RDS
• Marlborough Street Complex
• Dublin Bus Building
• Irish Stock Exchange
• Four Courts
• National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street
• Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square
• Irish Architectural Archive
• Dublinia
• Guinness Store House
• O’Callaghan’s Hotels
• The Gibson Hotel
• Grand Canal Hotel
• The Odeon Bar
• The Exchange
• Dicey Reilly’s
• The Generator Hostel, Smithfield
• O’Connell Tower at Glasnevin Cemetery
• County Hall, Marine Road Dún Laoghaire
• Stillorgan Obelisk Tower
• Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown: Town Hall
• Ross Castle, Co. Kerry
• Cahir Castle, Co. Tipperary
• Rock of Cashel
• Trim Castle, Co. Meath

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