“The latent motif of these Brutalist buildings is that they don’t give much away of the interior from the exterior.” Terminal One Dublin Airport Turns 81 this week.

A diminutive speakeasy that’s fallen in and out of favour with the cultural elite over the past century.

When the candy striped Poolbeg Towers were built in 1969 and 1977 respectively they fast became an indelible landmark on the city’s coastline

The Rotunda hospital is the apex of an incredible part of the city, lush with history like a microcosm of Irish life.

They’re gone now, committed to memory for those of us lucky to have seen them. But if Mark Wickham wins the lottery a sauna and public bath by the sea would be top of his list.

Founded by the Danes in 1095 St Michan’s Church, tucked away in Smithfield, is a building that has to be one of the most mythologised places in the city.

A curved building with tiered floors to mimic the lines of an ocean liner it was heated by turf and catered for 100,000 passengers a year.

The creation of Terminal Two set new standards for sustainable terminal design and made Dublin airport one of the most energy efficient airports in the world.

Its somewhat clandestine location and world-class programming makes this diminutive space a particularly rewarding discovery.

Happened upon on trips to the sea, the modernist concrete structure can seem an anomaly on a road of otherwise higgledy-piggledy residential grandeur.

The first major work of architecture in modern Ireland, Busáras was symbolic of a forward facing Ireland that was brimful of passion and ideas.

The most iconic house in world literature.

The Palm House was a flat-pack glass house, built in Paisley in Scotland and shipped to Dublin to be erected in 1884.

Henrietta Williams’ favourite building, the old Victorian fruit and vegetable market in Smithfield, was happened upon in the early mornings while walking to college, and at the tail end of wild parties that continued with the opening of the market’s early houses.

With its façade built of Portland stone, an ode to the city’s grandest buildings, it is completely different from anything around – Orla O’Kane

From the rubble of Marlborough Street, Cathal Brugha Street emerged when the St. George’s and St. Thomas’ Church was rebuilt in 1932. It was on this street that Robinson Keefe were commissioned to design St. Mary’s College of Domestic Science in 1939, now known as DIT Cathal Brugha Street.

What makes this building so unique and so remarkable was the way in which it was constructed, from the top down.

Now called Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Charlemont House admirably represents how a building can be sympathetically adapted and extended without disrupting its integrity.