Across from Trinity

Is this the one you are referring to?

http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/grafton_street/foxes.html

If you look closer at this photo (top left), or even when you are next there, you will see a modern apartment put up on to the top of the building next to it. What I would give for that place! 🙂

And the one further down is this isnt it?

http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/college_green/former_aib.html

Both look like quite typical Victorian buildings to me, but I am sure someone else will know more details about them.

Ah my favourite Victorian in the city is that red bank. Really magnificent and I believe it’s got wonderful curved glass in some of the turret windows – it was finished in around 1895.
Recently restored it is now a swanky bar and restaurant.
Unfortunately its facade has been marred with a nasty silver strip of novelty lighting tacked up onto the frieze which looks awful.
What makes it even worse is the poor light emitted from it – pointless!

Often drooled over that apartment up there – imagine the views down Westmroeland St & over Trinity 😮 – not to mention the value of the place…

The design of the gold building really stems from Newenham who was something of a devout gothicist, but the other certainly has European influences alright – mixture of classical and Sylvanian Families 🙂

@Graham Hickey wrote:

Ah my favourite Victorian in the city is that red bank. Really magnificent and I believe it’s got wonderful curved glass in some of the turret windows – it was finished in around 1895.
Recently restored it is now a swanky bar and restaurant.
🙂

i may be wrong – when i visited it for the first time, it was not as i remembered – in my memory, the interior had a balcony around three sides of the space

still a nice bar though

Both buildings also display a feature where the tower base apppears to be ’embedded’ in the ashlar of the ground floor. A rare enough sight in Dublin, but very common in Glasgow where it is a hallmark of their Victorian heritage. Yes, I am very fond of it indeed.

Those ghastly lighting strips – not sure if I get unduly hot-headed about these things, but this case is particularly bad.
Don’t know how they got permission for it – it blatently affects the architecture: