The design of Casino Marino, which is sited at Northside town of Marino, in the city of Dublin in Ireland, was created by Sir William Chambers, the famous Scottish architect for the first Earl of Charlemont, James Caulfeild, from the later years of the 1750s to almost 1775. It is a small but excellent representation of Neo-classical architecture, which is placed in the gardens which contain the charming Marine House. Chambers did not ever succeed to explore Casino Marino after the completion of its construction in spite of his boasting of the design, as had to work continuously in England.
Casino Marino derived its name from the Italian words that actually mean “The small house by the small sea”. Casino Marino, considered extensively as the best embodiment of Neo-classical architecture in Ireland, covers a very area, and measures 50 square feet only to the columns in the exterior of the building. According to the plan Casino Marino appears in the shape of a Greek Cross, which contains two columns for supporting each projecting facade.
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Apparently, Casino Marino appears as a one-roomed building with a big wainscoted door on the northern rise and only one big window on the other facades. All this is a misapprehension as Casino Marino contains in fact 16 rooms that are distributed on its three floors. Two panels in its door only open for permitting entrée, whereas the glass panes in the big windows are delicately curved, which hide the partitioning that permits it to appear like only one window opening to a number of separate rooms.
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Several other tricks have been used across the entire building for maintaining the visible plainness of the design of Casino Marino. The four columns encircling the building are actually hollow pipes that were utilized for draining rainwater from its roof whereas the funerary urns of Rome present at the roof served as the chimneys.
Inside Casino Marino a basement level along with several connecting rooms and a kitchen, a floor containing reception rooms, and a storey above it containing a State Bedroom and servant rooms, are present. Casino Marino also contains intricate ceilings featuring plasterwork and detailed parquet floors of hardwood. Primarily Casino Marino was connected by a secret tunnel with the Marino House. But the tunnel has been now closed up because of the construction works in that area.
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