The spiral parking ramps at Dublin Airport’s Terminal 1, which opened in 1972, are under threat of demolition as the airport undergoes renovations.
Angela Rolfe, president of the Irish branch of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, has sdaids they should be preserved due to their representation of 20th-century architectural culture.
Two other examples of such architecture in Ireland—the Eavan Boland Library at Trinity College Dublin and the Ulster Museum in Belfast—are currently protected.
Planning permission for a terminal revamp was secured by DAA in 2020, but the original proposal did not include plans for the demolition of the spiral ramps.
The car park was never used as it was calculated a security risk at a time British forces and paramilitaries were bombing infrastructure in Dublin, and it was calculated a strategically placed bomb could bring down the entire terminal.
