Retail frontage

There are some fine buildings remaining around Dublin. Many of them are now retail premises which don't look very inspired at street level, what with their unsympathetically large expanses of display windows and their branding and their awnings and whatnot. Once you look above this, though, the former glory still remains to be admired. This is a case in point. It's Arnotts department store on Henry Street, the city's second-ranking shopping street after Grafton Street. Some other buildings along this street also reveal hidden glories, but Arnotts has long been a favourite of mine because of the quality of its façade. The elegant proportions, the brickwork, the decorative infill above the windows -- all combine into an impressive and highly satisfying whole.

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I worked late last night, so was later surfacing today than I'd intended. I'm determined to be fully up to speed in the morning for the client who's missed her own deadline for getting content to me. The schedule is very tight (it's a quarterly magazine, and much of the content in the next issue will make less sense if distribution is delayed). I'm certain to have a busy week ahead of me (beginning with the rest of today), so blipping will have to fit into the work routine for a while.