In strictly good-taste design terms, a good shopfront is going to be one that works with the building as a...
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Butcher’s shop, 105 Patrick Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin+
It’s always a tiny bit worrying to see a butcher’s with a designed shopfront. The butcher’s window is usually a...
Shopfront, 390 South Circular Road, Dolphin’s Barn, Dublin 8+
A.C. Boles Chemist occupies the northern corner of the junction between South Circular Road and Dolphin’s Barn. On the upper...
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...
Shopfront, 103 Ranelagh, Dublin 6+
Credit unions are part of the building-block shops in towns and villages, the basic kit of parts that’s enough to...
Shopfront, 14 Fownes Street Upper, Dublin 2+
Before the area’s transformation in the 90s, Temple Bar had a number of small businesses – crafts and trades, making...
Shopfront, 13-14 Sackville Place, Dublin 1+
In the middle of Sackville Place, a surprisingly quiet little street, the Hollywood Academy’s eye-bleedingly vivid cerise front stands out....
Tiles, Essex Street West, Dublin 8+
Smock Alley Court is tucked down at Temple Bar’s western edge, between Cow’s Lane and Fishamble Street. It was designed...
Tiled shopfronts, Errigal Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12+
These two shopfronts are in a terrace of fairly ordinary, small, local shops on Errigal Road near the junction with...
Shopfront, 2 Lower Fownes Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2+
Temple Bar isn’t kind to glass shopfronts. Though Regent Barbers (a father-and-son business) have been in Temple Bar since the...