The Irish Times

A new icon for Ranelagh in the form of a triangular pavilion on the Triangle site goes for statutory public consultation soon. Every city has its SLOAP sites - "space left over after planning" - but Dublin has more than its fair share. So the City Architect, Jim Barrett, came up with an idea three years ago to do something with some of the more prominent ones, engaging bright young architects for each project. One of the most interesting and controversial interventions involves Ranelagh Triangle, even though it's not a classic SLOAP. It had been occupied for nearly a century by a vaguely neo-classical brick box containing public toilets and a taxi rank with an intermittently functional phone, standing on a traffic island