It’s all about the location at 40 Hanover Dock, a two-bedroom corner apartment on the fifth floor of an eight-floor building overlooking the very contemporary of Grand Canal Square.

Its wraparound terrace, sheathed in glass panes to create a winter garden, can slide open to let in warm air currents but can equally and cleverly shut out the biting winds that can blow in off the river.

From here you can peoplewatch day and night to your heart’s content – relatively undetected for the most part thanks to the reflective nature of the glazing used. You can also see the Dublin mountains.

The two-bedroom, two-bathroom property is owned by Conor Kinsella, an architect with the practice O’Mahony Pike, who designed the building along with the adjacent Bord Gais Energy Theatre and the Marker Hotel. Both properties can be seen through the walls of glass that frame two sides of the livingroom.

A pair of concrete pillars add a modernist architectural touch to the living diningroom.

The galley kitchen while compact includes clever features including a sizeable utility, the perfect place to hide drying clothes from sight and plug sockets affixed to the base of kitchen cupboards as opposed to blighting the uncluttered look of the tiled splashback. The property has two light filled bedrooms, each with access to the terrace. The master has an internal shower ensuite bathroom. The property is currently rented and would achieve a monthly income of about €2,300, according to agent Patrick George.

The pale tiled floor that runs throughout is in need of replacing in some parts and the property could do with a paint job but neither detracts from its key selling point: the views.

The 82sq m (883sq ft) property is asking €540,000 through agents SherryFitzGerald and has a B2 Ber rating.