An Oige Hostel, Dublin City (Old St Joseph's Convent)

I recently attended a course in the An Oige youth hostel in Dublin.  It's a funny location for a work course in my opinion.  While the room was perfectly adequate (good size conference room) that it was in a hostel was just not to my liking.

Youth hostels tend to be classed as budget accommodation for a reason - they are rough and ready - perfect for youths, independent travellers and budget conscious travellers.  

This particular hostel is located in the old St Joseph's convent and it very much 

reminded me of my old school!!!!

One thing that I liked was the dining facilities which were in the old church.  

The Gasworks building Dublin

The Gasworks is a structure which from approx 1895 housed a gasometer which supplied gas across Dublin.

I believe it would have last been functional in the 50's/60's.  By replacing the metal internal wall with glass, the structure was converted into a pretty cool residential building around 2006.

It's a very impressive building in my opinion.



The atrium in the centre.  The entrances to each apartment is via here.



I like the industrial look stone used in the courtyard/atrium.



Another exterior shot.  Check out the foundations of each pillar/post.

Cool cool building!  I'd LOOOOOOVE to live in one of those apartments!

Except for one reason (time for a rant!!!!!):

There is a serious amount of stupid signs all over the complex. The management company seem to have gone completely flathiulach on the signage????



How to ruin a nice courtyard with a beautiful tree - stick a load of signs below it.



Seriously???



In my opinion the sheer volume of these signs detract from this cool building/complex.
BUT I would still like to live here! 


Edit.
If you liked this blog post I think you will very much like my blog post on my very cool upcycled cocktail bar/drinks cabinet project! :-)