The one-floor over-basement home can seem to be far larger inside than their modest appearance from the street suggests.
Photographer: Richard Conway/Bloomberg CityLab
How Dublin’s Modest Terraced Houses Came Back Into Fashion
The genteel Victorian structures formed the basis of a post-famine housing boom and speak to the city’s enduring love of low-rise buildings — a preference in the spotlight during a housing shortage.
(This article is part of Bloomberg CityLab’s series exploring the iconic home designs that shaped global cities. Read more from the series. Get the next story sent to your inbox by subscribing to the CityLab Daily newsletter.)
“Dublin is, and I mean literally and topographically, flat — so that everything is on a single plane,” novelist Alice writes to her friend Eileen in author Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You. “You might think that it’s a democratic way to organize a city — so that everything happens face-to-face. But it gives the sky a position of total dominance.”