Busáras is the Central bus station and hub for inter-city and regional bus services on Bus Éireann in Dublin, Ireland. The Bus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ... Bus Éireann, or Irish Bus, provides bus services in Ireland outside Dublin. ... Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ...

Simultaneously loathed by the populace and loved by architectural purists (then and now), the building was designed by Michael Scott in an International Modern style between 1945 and 1953. Michael Scott (1905 - 1989) was an Irish architect whose buildings included the Busáras building in Dublin and the Abbey Theatre. ... Le Corbusiers Villa Savoye, 1929-30: The modern style is noted for its rigorous geometrical forms, and became adopted internationally, though not without continuing controversy Modernism in the cultural historical sense is generally defined as the new artistic and literary styles that emerged in the decades before 1914 as...

One of the first modern spaces in Dublin that attempted to integrate art and architecture, utilising elements like glazed facades and a controversial pavilionised top storey, the building won the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland (RIAI) Triennial Gold medal in 1955. Great Museums in the World (Louvre, Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, Picasso …) CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum Very large website with good reproduction quality scans of thousands of paintings Goetia Fine Art - Surrealism Art History With biographies and Works of the Surrealist Masters Art-Atlas. ... Architecture (in Greek αρχή = first and τέχνη = craftsmanship) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ... An anniversary is a day that commemorates an event that occurred on the same day of the year some time in the past. ... This article is about gold medal, as an award or prize. ...

Aesthetics aside, if you're travelling into or out of Dublin, this is where you get your bus.

( The word Busáras is a mixture of Irish and English, and may be translated simply to "Bus building". )

External Sites

• irish-architecture.com - extended article (http://www.irish-architecture.com/busaras/)