Irish Architecture News

Modern Irish Churches – your response needed for study

Paul Clerkin — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:54:57 +0000

Do you attend or have you attended services in a modern church in Ireland? The Modern Irish Churches Oral History Project is an extension of on-going PhD research in this area. Central to the study is the response to Modern styles of Church art and architecture in Ireland from both clergy and laity. The website [...]

AAI Mentoring Forums

Paul Clerkin — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:45:28 +0000

The AAI are hosting a series of new lunch-time Mentoring Forums at darc space, where practitioners of any level of experience can drop in and meet with colleagues to chat through any legal, contractual, design, client or business issues. The first session takes place on Thursday, 31 May from 12.30pm – 2.30pm at darc space [...]

Aughey O’Flaherty Architects win Grand Designs award

Paul Clerkin — Sat, 12 May 2012 21:11:07 +0000

Dublin firm Aughey O’Flaherty Architects received a Special Commendation for a house in Mount Anville, Dublin in the Grand Designs Awards. Project architect, Joseph Kevin Mac Mahon, was present in London to collect the award along with home owner Kevin O’Flynn and the contractor who built the house, David Smith. The Judges’ Citation: “What us [...]

Campaign launched to halt fire sale of ‘priceless’ Georgian buildings

Paul Clerkin — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:27:21 +0000

An alliance of conservationists, artists, architects and local politicians has launched a campaign to prevent an iconic Georgian building in Dublin city centre passing into private ownership at a knockdown price in a ‘fire sale’ this month. Nos. 3-8 Hume Street – formerly the Hume Street Skin & Cancer Hospital – was acquired by developer [...]

New Retail Planning Guidelines published

Paul Clerkin — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:51:07 +0000

The Department for the Environment, Community and Local Government has published new Retail Planning Guidelines and accompanying Retail Design Manual. The new guidelines have statutory force and are designed to ensure that the planning system plays a key role in ensuring competitiveness in the retail sector advancing choice for the consumer while promoting and supporting [...]

Art Deco Dublin inaugural meeting

Paul Clerkin — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:19:22 +0000

Catherine Thibault, a French national, now based in Dublin is inviting those interested in the Art Deco style to a public meeting in the Irish Architectural Archive to form a new group. According to Catherine, “I am an Art Deco enthusiast and would like to encourage Appreciation and Conservation of Art Deco Buildings and to [...]

Thomas Street re-imagined

Paul Clerkin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:59:56 +0000

As part of their study and proposals for Thomas Street, the Dublin Civic Trust reimagined various key parts of the existing streetscape restored and reinvigorated. These images by Peter Keenahan, Architect serve to remind us of what heritage value often lies behind unloved facades and how a forgotten streetscape could be brought back to life. [...]

Dublin Civic Trust launch Thomas Street Study

Paul Clerkin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:47:22 +0000

Regeneration proposals for historic Thomas Street in the centre of Dublin’s Liberties have been put forward in a new study by Dublin Civic Trust, being launched on Tuesday 17th May 2012 by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Andrew Montague, in the National College of Art and Design in the centre of Thomas Street. Commissioned by [...]

Architectural Conservation and Original Drawing Awards 2012

Paul Clerkin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:46:02 +0000

The Irish Georgian Society invites applications for its Architectural Conservation and Original Drawing Awards 2012 from Irish registered architects or architectural firms, building surveyors and other professionals involved in the conservation of historic buildings in Ireland. Intended to promote greater appreciation of Ireland’s built heritage and the work of conservation professionals, the Award’s winners will [...]

Dun Laoghaire County Library and Samuel Beckett Civic Complex get go aheads

Paul Clerkin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:00:59 +0000

Construction of the new Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Library/Arts/Culture/Community complex at Moran Park, at an estimated cost of €36.6m, has been approved by DLR County Council. The project is the outcome of an RIAI design competition, which was won by Carr Cotter Naessens Architects. The Part 8 scheme for this project was approved by the Council [...]

Place launches Architecture Tours in Belfast

Paul Clerkin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:07:13 +0000

PLACE, the Architecture and Built Environment Centre for Northern Ireland, are beginning their new tour season on Saturday, March 24th with the launch of three new tours. Belfast: A City Shaped by Conflict. A tour that examines and uncovers the more subtle influences The Troubles have had on Belfast’s built environment. Titanic: An Emerging Urban [...]

An Taisce calls for Independent Planning Regulator

Paul Clerkin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:02:04 +0000

An Taisce has welcomed the publication of the Mahon Tribunal Report which has exposed the endemic corruption at the heart of the Irish Planning System while endorsing the Tribunals recommendation of a planning regulator. The catalyst for the setting up of the Tribunal was the placement in 1995 by Michael Smith, former Chairman of An [...]

Roisin Heneghan shortlisted for AJ Woman Architect of the Year award

Paul Clerkin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:52:26 +0000

Irish architect Roisin Heneghan has been shortlisted for the inaugural AJ Woman Architect of the Year award. Also shortlisted are Zaha Hadid, Amanda Levete, Sarah Wigglesworth, Deborah Saunt (DSDHA), Cindy Walters and Michál Cohen (Walters and Cohen), Alison Brooks, and Clare Wright (Wright & Wright). The shortlist for the Emerging Woman Architect of the Year, [...]

Irish Georgian Society announces new President

Paul Clerkin — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:22:08 +0000

At the Annual Meeting of the Irish Georgian Society on 14th March, acting-President Professor Kevin B. Nowlan announced the appointment of Patrick Guinness as new President of the Irish Georgian Society. Prof. Nowlan said he was “delighted to be making this announcement” and noted that “Mr. Guinness brought a personal interest and passion in conservation [...]

University’s vision for central Belfast

Paul Clerkin — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:52:23 +0000

The University of Ulster has unveiled its vision of a vibrant 21st century campus in the heart of Belfast, built around the existing campus in York Street. The design by FeildenCleggBradley Studios is dominated by glass frontage and is built at different levels to complement existing buildings like St Patrick’s Church in Donegall Street. It [...]