Busaras
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Busara's monument in Dublin's Docklands |
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| Busáras, 2008 (rear view) | |
| Alternative name: | Áras Mhic Dhiarmada |
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| Registration number.: | 7852 |
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| Address: | Store Street |
| District: | 1 Dublin |
| Coordinates: | 53 ° 20 '59 " N , 6 ° 15' 7" W |
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| Construction time: | 1945 - 1953 |
| Client: | Bus Éireann (CIÉ) |
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| Architectural style: | modernism |
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| original and current use: | Bus station, Institute for National Welfare, cinema |
| Interim use: | from 1956 to the beginning of the 90s also theater |
Busáras (pronunciation: [ ˈbˠʊsˠˌaːɾˠəsˠ ], Irish neologism for bus building ) is the central bus station in the Irish capital Dublin and the seat of Bus Éireann , the company of which - given the marginal importance of Irish railways outside of the city connections - the main one Part of the national public transport in Ireland. The listed building, which was built in 1946–1953, is located on Store Street in Dublin. The bus station is used by the Bus Éireann (CIÉ) company and the office space above houses the Ministry of Social Protection .
location
The bus station is centrally located in the north of Dublin city center, about 5 - 8 minutes' walk from O'Connell Street and O'Connell Bridge over the Liffey . Busáras is served by the Luas' Red Line ; Connolly train station is also relatively close .
history
The Busáras bus station was designed by Michael Scott 's architectural firm as one of the first modern buildings in Dublin after World War II. The contract to build the Busáras was placed by the Bus Éireann (CIÉ) company in 1945. The design team consisted of Wilfrid Cantwell, Kevin Fox, Robin Walker, Kevin Roche , Pat Scott and Ove Arup and was the first team in Ireland to combine architecture and art.
The construction phase extended from 1945 to completion in 1953. The Busáras in Dublin was to be the prototype for other bus stations planned throughout Ireland; however, he did not receive this function. This may also result from the fact that Busáras met with violent public protests because of its modern exterior, the (apparently) functional design and the exorbitantly high total costs of over Ir £ 1 million at the time.
Scott tried to set many artistic accents in the construction of Busáras and, in addition to Portland stone, also used materials such as brass, copper and bronze in addition to mosaics and exotic woods. The flat roof is clad in faience and the attic is enclosed with a copper parapet. Glazed walls are to the north and south walls of the main block. The eastern and western portions of the south block are decorated with overhanging portland stone clad aprons.
The seven-storey building with a four-storey extension on the south side and a two-storey roofed station hall set at the angle to the front indentation heralded the age of international modernism in Ireland and cost over a million Irish pounds. The complex is modeled on the style of buildings such as Le Corbusier , Maison Suisse and the Cité de Refuge in Paris in the early 1930s and won the gold medal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland in 1955. The actual name of the station is Áras Mhic Dhiarmada named after Seán MacDermott , one of the signatories of the Easter Proclamation in 1916, but the station is commonly known as Busáras. The building was used in 1946 as the national bus station and as the headquarters of the national bus and train transport office. The bus station, with its small windows distributed over the north side and a roof tiled with mosaic stretching from the west end to the south, housed the office of the Institute for National Welfare, the terminal bus station and a cinema when it was completed. From 1959 until the early 1990s, the ground floor of the station was also the venue for the small Eblana Theater .
Rather unusual for bus stations, the outside area in which the buses pick up passengers is very small overall and requires - also due to the expansion of the offer after the strong economic boom in Ireland - that the bus drivers have to maneuver down to the centimeter during the daily “ rush hours ”. Buses to major Irish cities such as Cork and Galway or to Belfast often depart every hour on weekdays during the day. A special feature is that passengers are never left behind during the official departure times, but instead another bus is used if necessary.
In 2006, Bus Éireann (CIÉ) decided to renovate the complex. The renovation work was carried out by Collen Construction and completed in 2007. The cost of the work amounted to 1.7 million euros. The bronze glazing and the stone work on the ground floor were renewed and cleaned. The west-facing entrance hall received new entrances, on both sides, with bronze-glazed automatic sliding doors.
The government of Ireland has owned the Busáras since 1950, as the bus company Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) sold the complex to the government due to its high debt. Today, the main tenants of the Bus Éireann (CIÉ) bus station and the office space above are the Social Protection Department. Bus Éireann has the sole right to lease the bus station for 200 years, this was stipulated in a lease with the government on October 19, 1953.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ (Monument number: 7852) Dublin City Council (ed.): Record of Protected Structures in Dublin City. Retrieved May 13, 2016
- ↑ a b c Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (eds.): Busaras, Store Street, Beresford Place, Dublin, Dublin City: Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, Reg. No. 50011216. Retrieved May 13 2016
- ↑ RIAI GOLD MEDAL WINNER 1953-1955.
- ^ Morgan, Edel: Exterior upgrade planned for Busaras. In: The Irish Times, March 16, 2006, accessed May 13, 2016
- ↑ Paul Clerkin: Fifty years of Busáras. In: History Ireland - Ireland's History Magazine, 20th-century / Contemporary History, Features, Issue 2: 2003, Volume 11, accessed May 13, 2016.