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Ocean Buildings

Architect: Young & Mackenzie
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One of the great commercial buildings on Donegall Square and built between 1899-1902 in a Gothic Revival style. The building in red sandstone has a tall pinnacled corner tower and a three-tiered oriel window.


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The building has a series of fine shopfronts around its base, with beautiful decorative stone filligree-work around the windows.