New building on Dame Street

Madam, - As a Dubliner I am fairly immune to the third rate, spiritless architecture that is springing up in the city

Madam, - As a Dubliner I am fairly immune to the third rate, spiritless architecture that is springing up in the city. But in our vast pantheon of woeful architecture the latest building on Dame Street is a new star.

Here the architects have taken a holistic approach - managing to offend the eye, the heart and the soul. It is not often that a building can in itself be so ugly and in equal measure vandalise the vista of its beautiful surroundings. - Yours, etc,

JOHN DEVLIN, Erne Terrace, Dublin 2.