OPW's biggest eyesores to be given a facelift

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 1999 / August 4 1999: OPW's biggest eyesores to be given a facelift

Waterford's biggest eyesore is to be given a facelift for the new millennium. For more than two decades, the government building on the Glen has dominated the skyline in one of the most prominent entry vistas to the city, and an attractive sight it is not. The decision to give the property a facelift is part of a millennium project being undertaken by the OPW to improve the appearance of what it considers the three least attractive State buildings: Hawkins House in Dublin, headquarters of the Department of Health and Children, and the government building on Sullivan's Quay in Cork being the other two.

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