How well do you know Dublin?
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I guessed as much. Lovely views of the Green from the offices – it feels like a Recency London square from up there, even if seen through pre-cast concrete units 🙂
As I once heard a resident of some Brutalist London tower block say, part of the beauty of living in the building was not having to see it from outside.
When I worked in No. 51 St Stephen’s Green a few years ago, my boss had a top floor window overlooking the park- very envious I was.Just uploading some pictures from today, and I thought I’d put one here. Any thoughts? If not the exact lamppost, then the place from which the picture was taken, perhaps?
Beside the Liffey 😀
Looks like the view from the James Joyce House looking over towards Ellis Quay…
Spot on- damn you, Hickey!:)
The James Joyce House is fantastic- it was my first time in it. If anyone hasn’t yet gone, go soon before the work is completed. It’s amazing to see it in a state of semi-undress.
Another view from the top floor of the Joyce House on Usher’s Island, showing the same lamppost (this one’s not a test:) ):
Is this the only distinctively sloped Georgian street in Dublin aside from North Great George’s St?
🙂 It was the slope that made me think of it straight off, so I admit I was chancing my arm! I’ve cycled up it many times. I suppose it also doesn’t look quite as polished now as North Great George’s St does.
I’m also wondering about G.
At the very top of the picture is a building with an extended skylight of sorts – I’m sure there’s a proper term for it – an elevated section of the roof which is made up almost entirely of windows. Stack A style.
I seem to remember seeing something like that around the Earlsfort Terrace / Hatch Street area. Can’t place it though. But it might put the doll’s house around that area.
It is on middle abbey street..I recognise the streetlamp attached to the building. Only used on Abbey Street. Is it the Hotel Capri?
Damn you streetlamp! Sorry I keep forgetting to reply to this – G is indeed on Middle Abbey St:
…though to be honest haven’t the faintest idea what premises it is – not Hotel Capri anyway. It’s sited just behind M&S, almost terminating the view down (Middle) Liffey St.
The Moyne Institute is an excellent guess for E as it too is sandy-rendered and has some surviving steel windows, but it’s not it :).
As is F a good guess, but the Chapel facade behind is of rubble stone, so can’t be it either…The carmelite church is rendered with some exposed calp to the rear not cut stone;
is F the Pidgeon House?
B is the Archbishop Plunket monument on Kildare Place
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is F the carmelite church on Aungier Street?
Well spotted – kind of obscure.
As is poor old Plunkett on Kildare Place (B):
F should be fairly easy – some high quality masonry going on there…
Is F the Westmorland / College St. side of Trinity ?
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