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Irish Architecture News

05 April 2012
Architectural Conservation and Original Drawing Awards 2012

Architectural Conservation and Original Drawing Awards 2012

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...

03 April 2012
Dun Laoghaire County Library and Samuel Beckett Civic Complex get go aheads

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

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...

23 March 2012
Place launches Architecture Tours in Belfast

Place launches Architecture Tours in Belfast

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....

23 March 2012
An Taisce calls for Independent Planning Regulator

An Taisce calls for Independent Planning Regulator

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...

22 March 2012
Roisin Heneghan shortlisted for AJ Woman Architect of the Year award

Roisin Heneghan shortlisted for AJ Woman Architect of the Year award

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...

14 March 2012
Irish Georgian Society announces new President

Irish Georgian Society announces new President

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...

09 March 2012
University’s vision for central Belfast

University’s vision for central Belfast

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...

06 March 2012
Simon Open Door 2012 launched

Simon Open Door 2012 launched

The Simon Communities of Ireland has announced that the RIAI Simon Open Door initiative is taking place this year on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th May 2012. The RIAI & the Simon Communities...

02 March 2012
Celebrating Pugin at the Irish Architectural Archive

Celebrating Pugin at the Irish Architectural Archive

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was called many things in his own life and after but Cardinal Newman’s simple summation – ‘a man of Genius’ – is perhaps at once the most succinct and...