The building as it currently is, was built in 1988 and features cast iron, painted white over the glassy facade to give the appearance of an older building. 

Previously, over decades the old Georgian buildings on the site here were bought and allowed to become derelict so that the current building could be erected, so the old streetscape would have been one much more typical of Dublin. 

The artist's impression for the new development, if it is accurate to any plans, looked so generic to me I decided to do a Google image search on it and here are some of the results that came up: Sheffield, Nottingham, some buildings in Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, Prague, Edinburgh and so on.

If the word gerenicity exists (I checked and it does - but it probably shouldn't) this seems to be the logical consequence of all these developments. One street, one suburb, one city all looking more and more like the next.

As a photographer of many things; streetscapes and architecture amongst them, I enjoy the individuality of each place and lament the loss of the distinct.

And yes, I understand the economics and necessity of modernisation but it's important to record what went before.