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30/10/2024

Rainscreen Facades for Irish Architecture | Benefits & Design

Explore how rainscreen facades combine weather protection, fire resistance, and design flexibility, making them ideal for sustainable Irish architecture.

31/07/2023

9 questions architect frequently ask us!

Is EQUITONE a versatile material? How does a ventilated rainscreen system influence the temperature? Is EQUITONE an eco-friendly and sustainable building material? Find the answers to those frequently asked questions in our last post.

31/07/2023

Easily integrate EQUITONE panels to your modeling

No need to create our products in 3D to convince your customers they’re the right choice anymore. BIM Object allows you to digitally model your projects in a jiffy.

01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - Coláiste Chiaráin - May 2019

In an undated note, handwritten on his office letterhead sometime in the early/mid-1990s, Arthur Gibney (1932–2006) wrote to me...

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01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - Innishmore - March 2020

“When I joined the County Council in 1975 my first project was in Ballincollig,” says Neil Hegarty...

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01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - Newhouse - May 2018

Gone before we knew it. That is the tragedy of Newhouse, the least-known masterpiece of modern Irish architecture...

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01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - Dunshaughlin-Culmullen Pastoral Centre - December 2017

In 2005, the parish council of Dunshaughlin and Culmullen decided to develop a pastoral centre to cater for the needs of a parish expected to double in size by 2010...

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01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - Castlepark - June 2016

A cluster of seaside cottages with white rendered walls and black slate roofs might appear as much of an Irish cliché as a lurid John Hinde postcard. But Castlepark immediately captured the heart of the Irish profession and has never let it go.

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01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - Laboratory - January 2019

In the deep gloom of the recession, a new dawn was rising for Irish architecture, even if we were not yet awake to it...

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01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - Dowling House - November 2018

After collaborating together on and off for several years, Mark Hackett and Alastair Hall formally established a partnership in summer 2003, following their success as joint winners with O’Donnell + Tuomey in the international competition

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01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - Villa Maria - December 2018

When, in late November, the Irish Times outlined the life story of 99-years-old Jack O’Hare...

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01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - Piggery - November 2017

Kevin Roche won the Pritzker Prize in 1982, succeeding Philip Johnson, Luís Barragán and James Stirling. He is best known here for his Dublin Convention Centre but in architect-turned-filmmaker Mark Noonan’s feature-length documentary...

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01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - Blackrock House - January 2020

The plot at the end of a proposed cul-de-sac of individual houses on farmland outside Dundalk had two great features: a large meadow off to the side and a stand of trees behind. ..

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01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - IDA Enterprise Centre - April 2019

Dublin was on its knees. Anybody who knows Docklands today would be aghast at its condition then...

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01/07/2020

Building Of The Month - Civic Offices - February 2018

Limerick City and County Council came into operation after the 2014 local elections, merging the two former local authorities in a single administrative entity...

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