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09/12/2024

Keith Williams Architects complete DeValera Library & Súil Art Gallery

The new DeValera Library & Súil Art Gallery in Ennis has opened its doors to the public. Designed by Keith Williams Architects for Clare County Council, it occupies a prominent site next to the 485 seat Glór theatre (2001) by Gilroy McMahon Architects and the historic Poor Clare Monastery…
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  • BLOG
20/02/2024

Forbo Flooring and Dezeen launch Marmoleum Design Challenge

Dezeen magazine has teamed up with Forbo Flooring to challenge architects and designers to create an interior space that promotes wellbeing using Forbo Flooring's Marmoleum material. The Marmoleum Design Challenge tasks entrants with creating a small space within a space that can provide…
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  • DISCOVER ARCHITECTURE
20/12/2023

RIAI Architectural Prints

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  • NEWS
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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  • BLOG
25/01/2023

Irish Cement celebrates eighty-five years 

On 23 May 1938, Seán Lemass, then Minister for Industry and Commerce, surrounded by other dignitaries pushed an oversized red button and two cement factories, one on the banks of the Boyne in Drogheda, the other in Mungret outside Limerick, sprang into life. The location of the Cement Ltd…
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  • NEWS
22/09/2022

Wilson Architecture Recognized at the International Architecture Awards

Wilson Architecture is proud to announce that it has been named as a winner at the prestigious International Architecture Awards hosted by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The leading architecture…
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  • BLOG
02/04/2021

Graphenstone launches in Ireland

A new ecological and natural paint has been launched to the Irish market. Graphenstone paint is already a global brand and one of the most certified paints in the world. Available now in the Irish market, the innovative paint has many health and environmental benefits, making it a…
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  • BLOG
30/03/2020

The Twenty Mile House

In Maria Semple’s book Where’d you go Bernadette, fictional architect Bernadette Fox creates the ‘Twenty Mile House’. She sets herself a challenge: to build a house where ‘every material used must come from within twenty miles of the building site’. This idea is one which keeps coming back…
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  • BLOG
01/12/2019

Offaly

My home is located five kilometres outside of a town in rural Offaly. The first original structure began in 1890. It followed the traditional form of the vernacular Irish cottage.…

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  • BLOG
13/09/2018

Irish architects shortlisted for the RIBA International Prize 2018

The four buildings in the running for the RIBA International Prize 2018 were announced on 12 September with one of them being the Central European University (Phase 1), Budapest, by…

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  • BLOG
04/06/2018

The Cork Distillers Bottling Plant (1961-1964)

The 1960s were to be a prolific decade of building in Cork. The County Hall, designed by the City Architect Paddy MacSweeney, was Ireland’s tallest building when completed in 1968.…

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  • BLOG
21/01/2018

FreeSpace – Biennale Architettura 2018

Sandra O’Connell interviews Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, curators of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. In 2018 the Biennale Architettura in Venice will shine a…

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  • BLOG
20/11/2017

Morrison’s Island International Design Competition

Registered architects, landscape architects and engineers were invited to participate in a design research competition to propose innovative and considered solutions for the renewal of Cork city’s quayside landscape. Participants…

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02/09/2017

The longest building in Ireland – the Eglinton Asylum, Cork

On the evening of July 4th last a fisherman on the banks of the Lee raised the alarm as he saw smoke rising from the roof of St. Kevins unit…

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  • BLOG
18/04/2017

O’Donnell + Tuomey’s St. Angela’s College Wins Overall Award –  Irish Concrete Society

St. Angela’s College Cork by O’Donnell + Tuomey has won the ‘Building Category and the ‘Overall Award’ at this year’s Irish Concrete Society’s Awards. The awards evening took place on…

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  • BLOG
23/11/2016

Two Irish towns win at 2017 Urbanism Awards

  Congratulations to Clonakilty who have won the ‘Great Town Award’, and Waterford’s Viking Triangle Initiative receiving the award under ‘The Great Place’ category as part of the Academy of…

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  • BLOG
06/03/2016

AAI Lecture: deBlacam and Meagher

Date: 10.03.2016 Time: 19:00 Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin de Blacam and Meagher was founded by Shane de Blacam and John Meagher in 1976. The practice…

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  • BLOG
24/12/2015

Modern Health – The Meath Hospital

Dublin’s Liberties has an unkempt character. Its streets are scattered with relics of industry, once the lifeblood of this district. Here artisan shops and boutiques coexist with social housing and…

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  • BLOG
24/12/2015

Vanished Waterford (Part II) – Bishop Foy’s School

Part II of Vanished Waterford continues in a similar vein by focusing on the space of land situated on ‘the Mall’ in the former medieval city. Today we recognise this…

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  • BLOG
24/12/2015

Angels in the Architecture – looking up on Grafton Street

It’s that time of year when people pause in the street to look up at the lights. The magical atmosphere of Christmas makes people walk at a slower pace, taking…

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