ADVENTURES IN DUBLIN - PART III

i am in the happy position to announce that, i will be attending my very first lecture at nyu, and my first tour of the department i'll be in as of late august this year!
this is the happy news that has been taking up time from blogging, that i can now share with you, and also let you in on why the posts have been a bit slower lately. soon they will be back on schedule, but in the meantime wish me luck with all the work that has come up!
of course, i had promised more stories from my trip to dublin and today, i'll be following through with that. last weekend, i finally got around to saving and organizing my photographs. since my trip was of educational character, there was a ton of design and architectural research - the place is a treasury for that! so, while organizing it all, i uncovered my collection of images depicting beautiful brick buildings.

dublin has magnificent specimens of brick work all around the city. they pop out in bright red or dark, almost bark-like colors around st. stephen's green especially where i got to admire ivy's effects on the facades (it grows on everything and almost always looks magestic).

one of my favourite things was looking at all the townhouse facades and their colorful doorways. near the main parks of merrion square and st. stephen's green, they create a beautiful architectural collage of traditional vicorian and georgian styles with splashes of color and lots of green.

the above picture was taken on my last day there, when i decided to walk to the print museum. unfortunately the museum was closed but not the georgian house one, nor the little muesum of dublin where i ended up having so much fun as i mentioned here.
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a little to the south of temple bar,

where i discovered an amazing, slightly hidden disc shop (with awesome pink floyd vinyls) was this amazing building. it took up a great deal of space on the urban grid and seemed to combine medieval artistry and forms with latter architectural references unlike any other i have seen. it blended in perfectly next to more contemporary buildings and smaller residential ones, and the small string lights just tied everything together in sheer festivity. it was like walking in 3d history.

the details on the brick buildings were also worth noting. after all, it is the smaller, more minute things that pull everything together to form a whole image. this little balcony detail above was charming. the day i bumped into it was a bit gloomy, and it looked like a book illustration against the grey-ish skies and the still naked trees of the background. i think this may have been the moment i knew i was in love with the city; this little balcony.

of all the doors i saw, this may have been my most favourite. the details of the casing and framing of the door, along with the contrasting, dark green against the traditional red brick was just beautiful.

i hope you all enjoyed another walk through dublin with me.
my next post on the trip will be a shopping one. it is time i believe to move from architecture to home design and all the best places to shop at!

all right, off to bed now for me!

xoxo

p.s. all photographs in this post are mine you can find them on my flickr account here. they were taken in the period of my trip, from my own camera. if you wish to use them please refer back to me. thank you!