A former PD councillor is calling on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to acquire full legal title to Blackrock Park to prevent another “Dartmouth Square situation”. Victor Boyhan said he had been pursuing the...
A £97m proposal for a landmark building in the Titanic Quarter has been backed by the Stormont Executive. Work on the ‘Titanic signature project’ is to start in January. The executive said it...
The Celtic Tiger has vanished, as we all know, but some positive legacies have been left for people to enjoy during the recession when we’ll have more time to relax. Foremost among these...
When Desmond and Mariga Guinness first lived here in the 1950s, they were unlikely champions of Irish architecture. Mrs. Guinness, the daughter of a German prince, had grown up in Europe and Japan,...
The National Policy on Town Defences sets out “the national policy for the protection, preservation and conservation of historic urban defences in Ireland. The Policy is a further development in progressing the Walled...
When the owners of this west Dublin house commissioned an architect to design them an extension, they were not only improving their own home but also offering their daughter a valuable lesson. Ruth...
The Romans would recognise the shape of Dublin’s new O2 arena on North Wall Quay, even though it is all indoors and festooned with air-conditioning ducts and lighting gantries, with bars and food...
Bord Gáis Networks has announced that the winner of the National Distribution Control Building at Dubber Cross, Finglas is Denis Byrne Architects. The RIAI (Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland) administered the...
We don’t hear many good-news stories in these days of doom and gloom; but today’s official opening of the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s new building, on the campus of the University of Limerick (UL),...
