Everything you are looking for, millennials, Dublin has it
TECHNOLOGICAL TOURISM
The vacuum after the great crisis at the beginning of the century was so great that any corner of Dublin was likely to become an office. Hence, there is no geographical delimitation that establishes the borders of this Silicon Valley. However, this prosperity 2.0 has indeed made the Docklands complete their urban reconversion and go from being a battered free zone and port to being consolidated as an international business center. This brings with it modern buildings, salad bars, fast pulses and several bike paths. but also u We have a few corners that make following the course of the River Liffey worthwhile.
The great icon of this new era is the last euro of the old. That is to say, the ** Convention Center and its particular form of pint lying down ** that has succeeded in succeeding the Spire as the most representative postcard of contemporary times. Even more so if you visit at night, when the exterior lights are illuminated with the colors of the Irish flag or with others depending on the symposium that is being held. Although the tourist on foot can only access its hall, the view inside is amazing, with a tangle of escalators and a glass slope that gives a much more naked view of this Kevin Roche design. As a curiosity, each floor has a pub, which makes Ireland not far from each auditorium.
Outside, the other leg of the postcard awaits. The Samuel Beckett Bridge, designed by Calatrava, was the first inhabitant of the new millennium in the area . It is still a modern classic, but the fact that it opens up like an arm that shrinks to let in the heaviest boats when the tide allows it is an incentive, in addition to being a very good partner with the ultra-modern convention center.
The Convention Center, which paints lying down
Behind it, The Ferryman pub survives like a brick hero and Gaelic music. The building-sculpture hunt guides the steps to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, the neighborhood's temple of culture and a kind of free bar of shapes and lines . His creativity is spread by the Grand Canal square and its surroundings, where only a few red sticks 'spoil' the metallic panorama. It is a memory, a nod to the past of an area where the city's leper colonies were located . The current scenery space The Lir (headquarters of the audiovisual school) and the **AVIVA stadium** are the last stops on a tour in which the boats lazing on the canal and the teenagers practicing paddle surfing are the best companions.
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, cultural epicenter of the neighborhood
However, the city has not missed the opportunity to open an attraction with which to finish off this new neighborhood. The EPIC visitor center covers the basements of a shopping mall choked by turn-of-the-century decay and t try to explain Ireland's influence on the world through immigration. Regardless of whether it is interesting or not (the museum is designed for those descendants who visit Ireland in search of their roots), the fact of being a technological display with tables more typical of Minority Report than of the year 2016 It is in itself an incentive and a pleasant surprise.
Ireland, immigration and the world
THE ORDAGO OF DESIGN
Ireland celebrated its year of design in 2015, 365 days dedicated to the vindication of young creators and artisans that simply gave visibility to some firms that the new generations already had in mind. An evidence born of necessity, of the hard blow of the famous crisis that he pushed many twenty-somethings to the beans with his ideas and sketches. Today they are almost a wonderful plague, benefiting in part from the prosperity of the city and also from its consolidation as a shopping destination.
For this reason, Millennial purchases cannot ignore large cooperative spaces such as T he Design House , a garishly colored Georgian house where each room is a showcase of jewelery cabinets, dress donkeys and hat mannequins. A hodgepodge born in 2013 from the mind of Bébhinn Flood, its founder and main 'curator', who daily receives and seeks new talent whose only requirement, apart from quality, is to be and/or live in Ireland. Following this example, other spaces such as the LA Irish Design Shop, Designist, or Cow Lane act as cooperative showcase of different artists and designers located in the most commercial areas of the city.
Showcase of different artists
EAT, DRINK, HACK
Dublin's generation Y is not disgusted by the old, which is why they are on their map the classic pubs of Temple Bar or the delicious Fish and Chips of Leo Burdock. However, it also has its flirtatious bars and clubs where you can have fun that inherit the spirit of the Hack Nights, evenings that once brought together programmers, designers and any bloke from the new professions in a kind of non-stop nerd networking. A good one route through the new leisure in Dublin has some essential cultural stops such as escarceo por the museum of modern art IMMA , a look at the Temple Bar Gallery either an exhibition at The Science Gallery .
Also his reading corner spectacular precene in The Winding Stair before letting himself be carried away by the gastronomic modernity. Or what is the same, **the hamburgers at Skinflint ** , the tables to share at Featherblade , the **potato pasta oddities at Boxty House ** and the coffee at 3fe or Indigo & Cloth (before or after buying) . Also their 'Googlesque' pizzas at Slatterys and his copichuelas in the hypnotic and already mythical The bar with no name.
Books + wooden tables = The Winding Stair
WHISKEY IS THE NEW GUINESS
This umbrella of new stimuli has also reached beer and whiskey, which have not resisted reinvention and revision. That is why pubs like The Beer Market, where only artisanal barley juices made on the island are sold. Or that the mythical Guinness has dared with a hoppy blonde ale that's making waves across the country called Hop House 13 and to show it, along with other creations, in a speakeasy located near his famous Storehouse (only Thursday and Friday afternoons).
However, although it sounds old, whiskey has become the drink par excellence thanks to the new distilleries that threaten to completely change Dublin. The pioneer of all of them is Teeling, in whose stills some young heirs have begun to tinker and create daring coupage from barrels that previously cured Sherrys, Ports and Cabernet Sauvignon, among others. Its new headquarters is in the old 'Golden Triangle' and its tourist potential is such that the tourist bus lines have been diverted to bring and bring the intrepid tasters.
Who said whiskey is old fashioned?
THE PROMISED HOTEL
All these intangibles of fun, creativity, technology and general good vibes are found and multiplied in The Dean. It is an establishment 100% Dubliner that boasts of being global by exploiting the local. A catchphrase that translates into details such as all rooms having USB ports (to fight against the empire of adapters), Marshall speakers to 'plug in' your mobile or iPod , mini Smeg bars, a record player or handcrafted bath soaps. In addition, on television there is not the classic list of international channels. Only local channels and Netflix, which is accessed with the hotel's own account.
You'll want to stay and live in his bar...
Its common areas continue with this locurón. All works of art on display are by contemporary artists of the city , a task commanded by James Early and his study Input Out. In addition, some comfortable Swings liven up the wait for the elevator and the best terrace in the city shines on its roof. At Sophie's the gastronomic experience is overshadowed by the heady scent of her to Place to be, although its homemade oven, its pizzas, its anti pasti and its successful wine cellar are a guarantee of success.
Rooms with a retro touch that makes you fall in love