Fitzwilton House

Fitzwilton House
General information
Status	Demolished
Type	Office
Architectural style	Brutalist
Location	Wilton Terrace and Cumberland Road, Dublin, Ireland
Coordinates	53°20′00″N6°15′02″W / 53.333318°N 6.250522°W / 53.333318; -6.250522
Elevation	50 m (160 ft)
Construction started	1967
Estimated completion	1969
Renovated	2003
Demolished	2018
Height	30 m (98 ft)
Technical details
Material	concrete and steel
Floor count	12
Floor area	75,000 square feet
Design and construction
Architects	Ronald Lyon Estate Architects and Emanuel Schoolheifer & Don Burley
Developer	Basil Goulding
Main contractor	G&T Crampton
Renovating team
Architect	Scott Tallon Walker
References
[1]

Fitzwilton House was a brutalist concrete and steel office block in Dublin, Ireland completed in 1969 and demolished in October 2018. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

The block was developed by Basil Goulding and for many years housed the Embassy of Australia, Dublin as well as a number of businesses run or owned by Goulding. ^[6]

The building included a number of commissioned works by notable Irish and British artists including Robert Ballagh, Barrie Cooke, Anne Madden and Michael Farrell, some of which have since been transferred to the Trinity College Dublin Art Collection. ^[7]

History

One Wilton Place in 2023.

Planning permission for the building was received in 1964, just 3 weeks before the new planning laws were brought into force. ^{[8] [9]} The structure replaced 6 classical style houses which faced on to the Grand Canal and Wilton Terrace and sat adjacent to the grounds of Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club while overlooking the triangular Wilton Square park.

The name was a portmanteau of "Fitzwilliam" and "Wilton", references to the Fitzwilliam estate for which Fitzwilliam Square and tennis club were named as well as the adjacent streets named Wilton such as Wilton Terrace, Place and Square.

The office was constructed for Fitzwilton Securities, a company mainly owned by Tony O'Reilly via its takeover of W. & H. M. Goulding. ^{[10] [11]}

In 1982, the building was acquired by IPUT. ^[12]

One Wilton Park

A new office developed by IPUT real estate and designed by Henry J Lyons named One Wilton Park replaced Fitzwilton House in 2022. ^{[13] [14]} As of 2023 the building housed some of the Irish offices of LinkedIn. ^[15]

In October 2025, it was announced that One Wilton Park was going to form the Global Headquarters of Stripe with LinkedIn moving to offices at nearby Wilton Place. ^[16]

External links

• 1. UCD Library images of the building (1969)
• 2. UCD Library images of the building (1969)

References

1. McDonald, Frank (1985). The Destruction of Dublin. Gill and Macmillan. ISBN   978-0-7171-1386-6 . Retrieved 7 November 2023.
2. Casey, Christine (1 January 2005). Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park. Yale University Press. ISBN   0-300-10923-7 . Retrieved 7 November 2023.
3. Ward, Brian; Pike, Michael; Boyd, Gary (11 December 2019). Irish Housing Design 1950 – 1980: Out of the Ordinary. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-315-44238-9 . Retrieved 7 November 2023.
4. "Fitzwilton House, Dublin 2 | Built Dublin" . Retrieved 7 November 2023.
5. O'Connor, Amy (3 January 2018). "An insider's tour of Dublin in 6 much-maligned modern buildings". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
6. "Fitzwilton House". paddi.net. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
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8. "1969 – Fitzwilton House, Wilton Place, Dublin | Archiseek - Irish Architecture". 10 February 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
9. Book (eISB), electronic Irish Statute. "electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB)". www.irishstatutebook.ie. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
10. "Goulding, Sir William Basil | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
11. "The Rise and Fall of the House of Fitzwilton | Magill". magill.ie. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
12. "Annual Report 2018 - Fitzwilton House" (PDF). www.iput.com. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
13. "One Wilton Park, Dublin". Henry J Lyons. 6 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
14. "Iput gets green light for €45m redevelopment of Fitzwilton House". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
15. "IPUT lets Wilton Park building to LinkedIn on 25-year lease". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
16. O'Donovan, Brian (9 October 2025). "Stripe opens its new Dublin headquarters" . Retrieved 9 October 2025.