Pearse Street Hardware’s signage is handpainted in brown and cream, inverting them so that the primary sign stands out in...
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Shop – 1930s
Available now: A self-guided walking tour around some of Dublin’s 1930s highlights.
Shopfront, 6 College Street, Dublin 2+
The Irish Yeast Company opened in 1894 as wholesalers to Dublin’s baking trade, and still exists as a retail supplier...
Stephen Court, 18-21 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2+
Sitting in a Georgian terrace on the north side of Stephen’s Green, Stephen Court reads from the street like a...
Takeaway sandwich bar, 14 Montague Street, Dublin 2+
It’s strange looking at the exterior of the former Milkbar, because the image of the project I have in my...
Entrance, Upper Hatch Street, Dublin 2+
On the Hatch Street side of the National Concert Hall, there’s a rarely-used door in the side of the three-storey...
Zig-zag roof, Berkeley Library, Trinity College, Dublin 2+
On the Fellows’ Square side of the Berkeley Library, there’s a small projection with flat, porthole-style windows (which are described by...
Doorbells, 21 Leeson Street Lower, Dublin 2+
It’s not the most well-maintained door on Leeson Street – the crumbling bases on the ornamental columns are a little...
Signage, 1, 2 & 3 Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2+
The convention for numbering addresses spanning more than one building seems to be ‘1-3′, but this sign makes a good...
Agriculture House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2+
Kildare Street is dominated by state and institutional buildings, and for me, that’s a context in which Agriculture House sits...
Windows, 46-7 Dame Street, Dublin 2+
The Dame Street facade of the former Crown Life Insurance Building (Thomas Newenham Deane, 1868) is in such a chaotic...