Timely guide to Dublin design

Tommy Barker looks at a new Gandon Editions book on Dublin’s top modern builds by young Cork architect, Séan Antóin O Muirí.

Dubliners can be surprisingly nonchalant, ambivalent, or even downright dismissive about their city’s built environment, ready to pour scorn on almost anything built after the Georgian period in the city centre, or during the Victorian or Edwardian eras in the suburbs.

Mention ‘contemporary architecture’ to a Dub, and you might well be met with a sneer. Even the more generous citizens of the capital will be hard pressed to come up with a dozen exemplars of modern builds in the country’s capital.