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GLEN, WILLIAM R. #
- Born: 1885 Died: 1950
Architect, of Glasgow, specialising in cinema design,(1) who designed the Savoy Cinema, Dublin, with FREDERICK CHARLES MITCHELL , 1928,(2) and the Adelphi Cinema, Dublin, with ROBERT DONNELLY , 1937-38.(3)
References
(1) Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), II, 733.
(2) Advertisement in AAI Green Book (1930), 9.
(3) IB 79, 11 Dec 1937, 1101; 80, 17 Sep,1 Oct 1938, 788,840; Rothery, 187; Eve McAulay, 'The Temples of the new Entertainment': the architecture of the Irish picture house', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 14 (1998), 172,173(illus.).
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Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 019 (SAVOY CINEMA) |
Date: | 1929a |
Nature: | New cinema, for Associated British Cinemas Ltd. Marble work by C.W. Harrison & Sons. |
Refs: | Advertisement in AAI Green Book (1930), 9 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET MIDDLE, NO. 098-101 (ADELPHI CINEMA) |
Date: | 1937-38 |
Nature: | With Robert Donnelly. On site of old Plaza. Builder: E. Stone & Sons. Opened 1939. |
Refs: | IB 79, 11 Dec 1937, 1101; 80, 17 Sep,1 Oct 1938, 788,840; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 187; Eve McAulay, 'The Temples of the new Entertainment': the architecture of the Irish picture house', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 14 (1998), 172,173(illus.). |