Bus Éireann chief executive says the building ‘is arguable the greatest Irish building of the 20th century’
More than 70 years ago, The Irish Times published an artist’s impression to illustrate the “bulk” of the “new pile” of a “factory-like” bus station that was planned for a site on Dublin’s Store Street.
Its architect Micheal Scott did not agree. Eight months later, and following the initiation of legal proceedings by Mr Scott, the newspaper published an apology, saying it had not intended to give the impression that its sketch was “completely accurate” and it was “no more than a rough idea, without any pretention to architectural details, of our conception of the height and bulk of the CIÉ’s new building”.That was in 1947.
Part of The Irish Times front page from June 14th, 1947, featuring an apology to Busáras architect Michael Scott The writer was right on this last point at least, on its 70th anniversary Busáras caters for more than a million passengers a year. “Busáras continues to operate exactly as it was intended to do,” Stephen Kent, Bus Éireann chief executive, said. “It keeps the nation moving every day. Last month we carried more passengers than we ever did in our history.”
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