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 […]
HONAN CHAPEL Peter Murphy, Director at FMP Architects, talks about the challenges of restoring Honan Chapel at University College Cork Congratulations on winning the ‘Adaptation and Re-use’ award at the 2022 RIAI Awards for your work on Honan Chapel. Can you tell me about the project? Thank you. Honan Chapel, which was built in 1915, […]
MOVING FORWARD Taking its design inspiration from the shape of the surrounding Belfast hills, Feilden Clegg Bradley’s new 75,000m2 addition to Ulster University is set to transform higher education in the city The 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in April of 2023 poses some challenging questions for Northern Ireland. While the region has […]
TATAMU An extremely constrained site has helped turn Tatamu House, designed by J E Keating & Associates, into an architectural adventure Taking inspiration from the ancient Japanese art of Origami and the Ken geometry, Tatamu House treats the irregularities and extreme constrained site width of 4m as an opportunity rather than a constraint. The form […]
THE RESIDENCE, 94 St. Stephen’s Green With ‘The Residence’, Shay Cleary Architects has achieved a faithful restoration, while emphasising excellence in quality and craftmanship A small, mid-19th century protected structure located on St Stephen’s Green South, The Residence required a highly creative response to the restrictions of the existing building, particularly its very small floor […]
