Architect Ronnie Tallon s award-winning home in Foxrock for €3 75m irishtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irishtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In an obituary for the renowned architect Ronnie Tallon in this newspaper, in 2014, it was noted that he pioneered radical environmental engineering concepts and that his âapproach to architecture was indebted. to the American works of the former Bauhaus director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the founders of the modern movementâ. It also notes that he âcreated a handful of glorious housesâ, and one of those rare gems, a family home in Dangan, close to Galway city, has just come on the market through DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard, with an asking price of â¬1.2 million.
Tallon designed the house at Chestnut Lane in 1973/â74 for friends, one of whom worked very close by at NUIG; Tallon was a partner in the architectural firm Michael Scott and Partners that designed the universityâs library and science buildings completed in 1973. (In 1975 the practice was renamed Scott Tallon Walker and it has maintained a long relationship with the university,
DNG Maxwell Heaslip and Leonard has recently been favoured with the executor sale of one of the most impressive detached properties to come to the Galway market in recent years. Located on Chestnut Lane, one of the city’s’ most desirable addresses, this magnificent property is being offered for sale by private treaty and is sure to catch the attention of all those who have even the slightest interest in modern Irish architecture and design. Built in 1974, this single storey residence was designed by renowned architects Scott Tallon Walker, which has a reputation for modernism, and is responsible for a multitude of important civic and private buildings throughout Ireland.