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18/10/2023

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16/10/2023

13 projects in Ireland nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2024

The nominations for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award – feature 13 projects in Ireland. The projects are part of a first list of 362 works, completed between April 2021 and May 2023, located in 38 different European countries, competing…

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12/10/2023

RIAI celebrates the Rising Stars of Architecture - Winners of the RIAI Future Award and RIAI Student Awards 2023 Announced

On the first day of the RIAI Conference 2023, 11 October, we were delighted to end the day with the presentation of both the RIAI Future Award 2023 and the RIAI Student Awards 2023. The RIAI Future Award is an award for emerging architects who have been RIAI registered for ten years or less…

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12/10/2023

RIAI unveils Climate Challenge guidance while exploring Retrofit at Scale at the RIAI Conference

We are delighted to launch today, 12 October 2023, at the RIAI Conference 2023, a complementary suite of guidance for the RIAI 2030 Climate Challenge. These guides are intended to help support Architects and their Clients to sign up and work towards the targets of the Climate Challenge.

FLOWPAPER PUBLICATIONS

10/10/2023

RIAI 2030 Climate Challenge - A Non-Domestic Client’s Guide

FLOWPAPER PUBLICATIONS

10/10/2023

RIAI 2030 Climate Challenge - A Domestic Client’s Guide

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10/10/2023

RIAI 2030 Climate Challenge - An Architect’s Guide

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09/10/2023

RIAI Calls for Collaboration and Sustainable Solutions to Combat Built Environment Challenges at the 2023 Conference

Ireland’s largest architectural and built environment conference – the RIAI Conference – will focus on the challenges the country is facing at a time of unprecedented complexity. The RIAI believes it is time for a seismic approach on how we set the ambition and structures for Ireland’s…

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14/09/2023

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08/09/2023

SEAI Grant Briefing for Architects

With home extensions, retrofits and renovations making up a significant proportion of many architects work, it is critical that they fully understand the various grant-aid supports available to their clients from SEAI. Primarily, homeowners are looking for energy savings and greater indoor…

ARCHITECTURE IRELAND DIGITAL EDITION

01/09/2023

Issue 331

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31/08/2023

RIAI Welcomes Focus on Place-Making, Innovation and Low-Rise Medium-Density Development in the Draft Sustainable and Compact Settlements Guidelines for Planning Authorities (SCSG)

Darragh O’Brien TD, Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Kieran O'Donnell, TD, Minister of State for Local Government and Planning have published the Draft Sustainable and Compact Settlements Guidelines for Planning Authorities for consultation. The Draft Guidelines set…

RIAI AWARDS EXHIBITION

25/08/2023

Delivering Dwellings to the RIAI Climate Challenge 2030

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25/08/2023

Specifying paint

RIAI AWARDS EXHIBITION

24/08/2023

Wren Urban Nest Hotel

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24/08/2023

Urban Grains: Dublin’s Grafton Street Area

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24/08/2023

UCD Village

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24/08/2023

The Forge

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24/08/2023

Strokestown Park House and National Famine Museum

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24/08/2023

Stable Buildings at Walled Garden, Gortmore, Dundrum

RIAI AWARDS EXHIBITION

24/08/2023

St Mary’s Convent, Wantage

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24/08/2023

One Wilton Park, LinkedIn Headquarters

RIAI AWARDS EXHIBITION

24/08/2023

New Science Lab for Coláiste na bPiarsach

RIAI AWARDS EXHIBITION

24/08/2023

Mount Prospect Avenue

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24/08/2023

Hennebique Studios

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24/08/2023

Glentora

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24/08/2023

Fidelis Station Building

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24/08/2023

Derrylahan Cottage

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24/08/2023

Cherrywood Canopy and Biophilic Sunken Garden

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24/08/2023

Charred House

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24/08/2023

Ceannt Station Galway Drivers and Station Staff Building

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24/08/2023

Cathedral of Saints Patrick and Felim

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24/08/2023

Ballyhackamore Extension

CPD NETWORK PROVIDERS

23/08/2023

Fundamentals of architectural lighting design

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22/08/2023

RIAI Expresses Concerns over Lack of Vision for Dublin City

The RIAI has expressed concern over the lack of an overall vison for the City and citizens of Dublin. As Ireland’s population continues to grow, the capital city has growing demands and complex needs to create a vibrant, safe, sustainable and inclusive city in which people can live, work,…

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21/08/2023

RIAI calls on Government to invest in delivering quality, affordable housing in livable towns and cities in Budget 2024

The RIAI is calling on the Government to use Budget 2024 as an opportunity to deliver quality and affordable homes in town and cities which are liveable for all. The Institute is also seeking Government commitment and resourcing to deliver on Ireland’s National Policy on Architecture,…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

11/08/2023

Beyond the Trees: Avondale House & Forest Park

It is evident that Universal Design was integrated into ‘Beyond the Trees at Avondale House and Forest Park’ from the outset of the project. The result is an inclusive, thoughtfully considered and well-detailed scheme, which has been responsive to user consultation. Beyond the Trees…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

11/08/2023

Silver Bark House

Nestled amidst a captivating landscape, Silver Bark House serves as an exemplar of sustainability innovation. Designed with meticulous attention to detail, it encapsulates the essence of sustainability, innovation and timeless design. The use of natural materials for its exterior seamlessly…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

11/08/2023

Military Architecture and Brick Manufacture

The establishment of a traditional Brick Manufacture is not only of significance for McKee Barracks and military architecture but also for traditional brick architecture across Dublin and urban Ireland. While initially responding to the specific monumental red brick buildings of the…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

11/08/2023

Writer’s Room

A minimal brief – “a space for a novelist to write in solitude” – and a practical decision – “the project would be constructed off site and craned into position” – triggered a cascade of coherent decisions that gave shape to a highly intriguing object. Contextual and autonomous, precisely…

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11/08/2023

ESB Headquarters

With an almost classical ambition, the architects decided that this project was first about constructing the street using the simplest architectural elements at their disposal: rhythm, proportions, materials, openings and chimneys. The calm and strangely familiar faç …

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11/08/2023

Ardee Ambulance Base

The project is set in a parkland and is positioned to maximise views to existing mature trees. The building reveals itself around a curved access road which circles the first of these impressive trees. Clad in Iroko Teak, and sitting on a raised platform, this simple rectangular pavilion…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

11/08/2023

Béal na Bláth Centenary

Béal na Bláth is a cultural landmark that has been carefully reinterpreted, while respecting and informing the historical significance of the location. The existing landscape has been rearranged to reflect that which was there at the time of the event. Research findings on the historical…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

08/08/2023

Clones Renewal Scheme

What shone here in Clones was respect for the cultural phenomenon that is the rural Irish town. The success of the project is coupled with active coalface delivery of its continued living evolution through examination, decision making, design development and constructed proposition.…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

08/08/2023

O’Devaney Gardens

O’Devaney Gardens is a great exemplar of a low-rise, medium-density housing model that creates a quality pocket neighbourhood. The combination of own-door homes and walk-up units are successfully arranged to create a compact and vibrant community. The saw-tooth form with in-between,…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

08/08/2023

Ladyswell Square

Ladyswell Square is a well-mannered clever arrangement of houses that demonstrates a refined quality of architecture, using a minimum palette of materials. This is an exemplar of how low-rise, medium-density housing can be provided within the limitations of exiting development plan…

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08/08/2023

Dominick Hall

A monumental confident addition to Dublin's north-inner city and to Dublin City Council's social housing portfolio, Dominick Hall is at once familiar and new. As a predominantly 6-storey brick building which forms a street edge, the scheme recalls the rhythm of historic Dominick Street. The…

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08/08/2023

Charleville

A one-bed, badly-functioning urban cottage near the Royal Canal in the north-inner city of Dublin has been transformed into a two-bed A-rated family home. Working on a tight budget, and on an even tighter site, certain architectural moves, small and significant alike, have made this…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

08/08/2023

An Tuí

This extension and renovation of an existing cottage in the depth of the Kildare countryside respects the vernacular, while re-interpreting the spatial hierarchies and functions to reflect modern living. The building has been extended with a timber box – juxtaposed to and separated by a…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

08/08/2023

Printing House Square

This latest addition to Trinity College creates its newest student square wrapped on three sides by student apartments and a myriad of functions which promote student well-being. The form is like a mountain top on the Dublin skyline. Sunken courtyards provide light and tranquillity to the…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

08/08/2023

Quadrangle Building, King’s College London

On a live university campus, the architects for the Quadrangle Building had to deal with the demanding conditions of physical and historical architectural weight. They resolved the combined design conundrums – of 4,000 square metres of reclaimed space, the technical requirements and the…

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08/08/2023

International Rugby Experience

It was an admirable decision to place the International Rugby Experience at the heart of Limerick to facilitate urban regeneration. Its contribution as a cultural and public building breathes new life into the city. Occupying a prominent corner, it has a strong civic presence and a quality…

ARCHITECTURE AND AWARDS ARCHIVE GALLERIES

07/08/2023

Beyond the Trees: Avondale House & Forest Park

‘Beyond the Trees: Avondale House and Forest Park’ is the successful integration of new and historic buildings, responding thoughtfully to the historic woodland context. The route through the site culminates in a unique elevated walkway and viewing tower, providing proximity to the beauty…

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07/08/2023

The Lower House

The Lower House at Grangegorman project is one of rescue and re-use, as against repair and restoration. Dating from 1812, the former psychiatric hospital is conserved and part-reconstructed to house a multi-functional student centre for TU Dublin. This project is distinctive for its…

CONFERENCES

31/07/2023

RIAI Conference 2023

WHAT'S ON

28/07/2023

RIAI Silver Medal for Conservation and Restoration

WHAT'S ON

26/07/2023

RIAI and Architecture Ireland Future Award 2023

NEWS

20/07/2023

Design4Zero – Moving to a Design for Performance Based Approach for Ireland’s Built Environment

The RIAI and the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) have joined forces on a joint programme of research, support tools, guidance and up-skilling of professionals to address the much-needed decarbonisation of our built environment. Design4Zero is funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority…

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13/07/2023

Realising the true long-term performance of an inverted flat roof

It can be immediately obvious when the physical design characteristics of a newly constructed building fail to reflect an original architect's vision. However, other properties, such as a shortfall in thermal performance, may not be so apparent, yet arguably are even more important. This…

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06/07/2023

Congratulations to Shane de Blacam FRIAI for Receiving the 2023 Royal Academy Architecture Prize

The Royal Academy of Arts has announced that Dublin-based architect Shane de Blacam has been awarded the 2023 Royal Academy Architecture Prize, honouring his inspiring contribution to architecture. To mark the fifth year of the annual prize, which is supported by the Dorfman Foundation, the…

ARCHITECTURE IRELAND DIGITAL EDITION

01/07/2023

Issue 330

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26/06/2023

International Istanbul Museum of Modern Art Designed with Irish Influence

Istanbul Modern, Turkey’s first museum of modern and contemporary art, inaugurated its new museum building designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. WIT Graduate of Architecture, Ronan Dunphy was part of the design team. The project is located on the Bosphorus waterfront with a beautiful…

DISCOVER ARCHITECTURE

26/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: National Policy on Architecture

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26/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: RIAI Supported Research

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26/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: BIM

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26/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: Design for Manufacture and Assembly

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26/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: Universal Design

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26/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: Construction

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26/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: Building Conservation

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26/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: Procurement

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23/06/2023

Irish Architecture Championed as RIAI Announce 19 Winners at 2023 RIAI Architecture Awards

The RIAI has announced the winners of the 2023 RIAI Awards. The RIAI works to inspire excellence in Architecture to deliver a sustainable and resilient future and the awards recognise the contribution Registered Architects make to the built environment. The RIAI announced 19 winners across…

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22/06/2023

Glidevale Protect provides a clear route to compliance

Glidevale Protect is launching a new campaign to highlight the importance of technical transparency that ensures the accuracy and clarity of all product information. Glidevale Protect, a leading manufacturers of construction and roofing membranes, as well as airtightness products, has…

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22/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: Urban Design

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22/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: National Policy Review

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22/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: New European Bauhaus & European Policy

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22/06/2023

International Rugby Experience Voted the Nation’s Favourite Building

The RIAI has announced International Rugby Experience, by Níall McLaughlin Architects, as the winner of the Public Choice category at the RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2023. International Rugby Experience faced considerable competition from a shortlist of 53 projects. This year…

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21/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: Housing

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21/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy: Climate Change

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21/06/2023

RIAI Research and Policy

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16/06/2023

Switchable Smart Film for Glazing Applications

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15/06/2023

SIG opens in Limerick

SIG, Ireland's largest supplier of specialist building products, has announced the opening of its fifth branch in Limerick on 8 June. With existing branches in Dublin, Cork, Belfast, and Omagh, this expansion represents an opportunity for SIG to contribute to the future development of…

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14/06/2023

“Town Centre Living” – RIAI and Minister O’Brien Announce Winners of Architectural Design Competitions for Creating High-Quality Homes in Town-Centre Locations

The RIAI and the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD, announced on 14 June 2023 the winning proposals for the 'Town Centre Living’ architectural design competitions – providing innovative designs for four social housing schemes in town centre sites in…

PRACTICE DIRECTORY

13/06/2023

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PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD POLL LANDING

02/06/2023

RIAI Public Choice Award 2023

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01/06/2023

RIAI / AOTI Position Paper - Changing the Mindset from ‘Granny Flat’ to Flexible Home Adaptations

This Position Paper is a result of collaboration between the RIAI, Universal Design Task Force Liaison Group and the Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland (AOTI), Enabling Environments Advisory Group (formally the Housing Advisory Group). A Liaison Group was established to share…

PRACTICE DIRECTORY

31/05/2023

Gabriella Regina Architect

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31/05/2023

Marshall McCann Architects

PRACTICE DIRECTORY

31/05/2023

John Duffy Design Group Ltd.

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22/05/2023

House + Design - Issue 08

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19/05/2023

Ireland at Venice: In Search of Hy-Brasil

Ireland’s Representation at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale Minister of State at the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Patrick O’Donovan T.D. opened Ireland’s Representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di…

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