Neolith® announces launch of pioneering treatment of slabs Each year an average of 37.3 million people are seriously injured due to trips, slips and falls, in both public and domestic environments. Putting this into perspective, the calculated cost to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to deal with injuries caused by falls is £4.4 billion. […]
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD, today announced details of a €2.2m package to assist 12 Coastal Local Authorities undertake and complete 39 development and repair projects on harbours and slipways owned by them (see table below for details). The package provides funding for maintenance and repair works in addition […]
Dublin City Council will begin works on three major cycleway projects in the city centre this year, at an estimated cost of between €35m to €40m. Works on the Clontarf to city centre cycleway – one of the busiest cycling spots in the city – will begin around August, a council spokesperson said. While the […]
Change isn’t happening fast enough for women in architecture says Jeanne Gang, who suggests that all firms should be set a target to close their gender pay gap. Speaking to Dezeen at the end of 2018, the Studio Gang founder said that more needs to be done to root out sexism in architecture, and that […]
Sheila O’Donnell of O’Donnell + Tuomey has been named Woman Architect of the Year 2019, with DnA founder Xu Tiantian winning the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture. The two architects have been recognised during the 2019 Women in Architecture Awards, an annual celebration held by the Architects’ Journal and The Architectural Review. O’Donnell, who […]
In the capital city for thirteen dynasties, Xi’an, there is a high-tech industry development zone which takes the lead in the most advanced technologies. In 1st and 2nd floor of a modern building which stands in this zone, YJY MAIKE CENTRE FLAGSHIPSTORE was designed by the famous Japanese designer Tomoko Ikegai. It is a bookstore-based […]
Arata Isozaki has been named the 2019 laureate of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture. Isozaki, who has been practicing architecture since the 1960s, has long been considered an architectural visionary for his transnational and fearlessly futurist approach to design. With well over 100 built works to his name, Isozaki is also incredibly prolific and influential […]
Kevin Roche, the Dublin-born architect who died on Friday, at the age of 96, was a designer of modernist buildings, at once bold and refined, that gave striking new identities to corporations, museums and institutions around the world. He was one of the rare architects who was admired and trusted by corporate executives, museum boards […]
Maynooth University (MU) is celebrating a tradition in teacher training that goes back more than 90 years, with the opening of a new €14m school of education. From a modest six students on the higher diploma in education at Maynooth in 1926 , an average of 600 teachers a year now qualify in Maynooth and […]
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw was awarded the 2019 Royal Gold Medal, the UK’s highest honour for architecture, at a special ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) this evening (14 February 2019). Presented by the RIBA in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen […]
