https://t.co/r7rVnKvB59 Coleraine 45. Finally to 2012 and the Giant's Causeway visitor Centre just outside this area. Designed by Henegan Peng Architects after an international competition.
https://t.co/r7rVnKvB59 Coleraine 44. The Council Offices
Completed in 2000, award winning, plenty of glass symbolising a new era after the end of the Troubles.
https://t.co/r7rVnKvB59. Coleraine 43. New University of Ulster, as built between 1968 and 1977. View of Diamond Hall (1968) before recladding and Riverside Theatre (1976).
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Coleraine 50. Portstewart Town Hall. Built in 1934/35 following a competition. Modernist influences, probably reflecting the seaside architecture of other resorts and lidos across the UK and Ireland at that time.
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Downhill Tunnels. Constructed between 1845 and 1852. These were among the first of the type on the island and were important engineering feats for the time.
https://t.co/r7rVnKvB59. Coleraine 37. St Patricks Church.
On a site associated with the saint, St Patrick's was significantly rebuilt in the 1880's with an elegant gothic tower added.
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Coleraine 35. Portrush Railway Station. 1890, in a half-timbered Elizabethan style. This was not a mere transport hub but a place that reinforced and sold a dream of leisure time by the sea.
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Coleraine 34. The Town Hall
Opened in 1859, the sandstone town hall is in an Italianate classical style taking pride of place in the centre of the Diamond. It reflects the confidence of the town at this point in its history.
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Coleraine 34. The Old Courthouse
Built in 1852, it functioned as the town court for 133 years until its closure in 1985. On a commanding position at the top of Waterside Street looking down towards the Bann Bridge. Now converted to a bar and restaraunt.
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Coleraine 33. the Irish Society School
Another institutional building in the gothic style is Coleraine's former Irish Society School. Constructed between 1867 and 1869 it is a picturesque jumble of pitched roofs, cupolas, turrets and tall chimneys.
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Coleraine 32. The work house on Mountsandel Road. originally designed for 700 extended during Famine to take another 60 with a fever hospital along side. Only the front block remains.
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Coleraine Market Yard. Constructed in 1829 to the same classical rules as buildings constructed 70 years earlier. Elegant proportions reinforcing the character of an important space for commerce.
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Coleraine 28. The Mussenden Temple.
Dramatically located, the Mussenden Temple has a motto: ‘SAUVE MARI MAGNO TURBANTIBUS AEQUORA VENTIS’ – ‘Tis pleasant to watch from land the great struggling of others when winds whip up the waves on a mighty sea’.