HOUSING IRELAND – THE CHALLENGE, THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE SOLUTIONS By placing the goal of creating sustainable communities at the heart of our housing policy, we can meet current and future needs without making the mistakes of the past, writes Kevin Loftus The challenge After nearly a decade, Ireland’s housing crisis is more acute and […]
GREENING OUR CITIES The ‘Green Cities Garden’ at Bloom took a different approach to the meaning of show garden For this year’s Bord Bia Bloom, Daibhí MacDomhnaill of Áit Urbanism and Landscape created a garden that demonstrates how greening in even the tightest spaces of our towns and inner cities is possible. ‘Green Cities Garden’, […]
LOWER LEESON STREET MEWS HOUSE Sympathetically designed by Fergal McGirl Architects, this 3-storey mews house sits within the curtilage of a protected Georgian townhouse 40 Lower Leeson Street is a terraced Georgian townhouse constructed in about 1820 as part of the extension of Leeson Street from Stephen’s Green at the time. The mews plots to […]
THE NEW HOUSING – A PLACE FOR MICROCARS Modern technology is providing us with new methods of personal mobility such as electric cars and scooters, but we have yet to properly consider how microcars might contribute to achieving both a low carbon economy and compact efficient settlements, writes John Deaton What are microcars? As the […]
IN SEARCH OF HY-BRASIL Ireland’s representation at this year’s La Biennale di Venezia investigates the culture and diversity to be found in our remote islands Entitled ‘In Search of Hy-Brasil’, this year’s exhibition is curated by a team of five architects – Peter Carroll, Peter Cody, Elizabeth Hatz, Mary Laheen and Joseph Mackey. In Search […]
TRANSFORMING GRANGEGORMAN A new €220m development at TU Dublin’s Grangegorman campus has officially opened Two new major campus buildings costing €220 million in Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) were opened recently by Minister Paschal Donohoe. The newly opened East Quad and Central Quad on the university’s campus in Grangegorman are now home to over 10,000 […]
GURDAU WINERY For Aleš Fiala Studio, the winery’s location in the open countryside brought with it high demands for architectural and landscape integration. The landscape context is addressed in the form of a gentle curve – a wave in the landscape, a hill between hills. Great care has been taken to incorporate the building into […]
FOSROC’S GREEN TICK ECO PRODUCTS TO REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT As part of a continuous drive towards improvements in 2023 Fosroc UK & Ireland has introduced the ‘Green Tick’ product range. The green tick logo identifies products that carry eco benefits to help reduce the impact of future construction projects on the environment. Below is an […]
GEORGE QUINN GOES GREEN WITH COMBILIFT George Quinn Ltd a stair parts manufacturer and distributor has invested in a new electric Aislemaster to add to the multi-directional Combilift bought in 2001 and the original gas Aislemaster bought in 2005. Both trucks are still working as hard as the first day. The George Quinn site extends […]
