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Attached seventeen-storey glazed office block, built 1965, with two-storey hall attached to west. Designed by Desmond O’Kelly as headquarters for trade union. Zigzag mosaic tiled cantilevered canopy to recessed top floor surmounted by copper-clad lift-shaft projection. Horizontally glazed to all four sides with fifteen aluminium windows to each elevation having fluted panels and continuous floor panels of mosaic tiling, now painted over. Tower supported on eight structural columns, mosaic tiled to the ground floor. Recessed ground floor set on stone-clad plinth with aluminium-framed glazing, with some panels filled-in with red brick. Aluminium glazed entrance screen to east elevation with concrete canopy extending to north in gentle curve with red brick wall and clerestorey glazing. Door opens onto granite paved platform and two steps. Further entrance to west elevation set back from street, also serving auditorium. Glazed entrance screen with recent wave-form canopy and glazed bridge above connecting first floors. Double-height auditorium to west with set-back zigzag copper-clad canopy, glazed as clerestorey over main body of building. Concrete panels to projecting front walls with asymmetrical large aluminium stairhall window. Red brick walls to walls behind projection below concrete coping. Four shop units to ground floor with steel roller shutters, full-span canopy and clerestorey windows above.
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