Back to the future for Dublin's Dylan Hotel

IT’S soaring in popularity as an urban pastime and crane-counting was very firmly on the agenda when I took up a challenge to find out just how much I could pack into a 24-hour architectural and interiors fact-finding mission in Dublin.

Of course, Cork’s own skyline is drawing all eyes upwards at the moment, so those of us Wildlings who breached the Wall to storm the capital were determined not to be completely agog. But our knowledgeable Pied Piper, architect Louise Finlayson, and the architectural gems themselves charmed even the most hardline out-of-towners among us as well as enchanting the homegrown Dubliners in the group.