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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Building Of The Month - Liliburn Hall - September 2018
The multi-purpose Lilburn Hall provides spaces for a music and drama centre and sports hall which can also be used for assembly, examinations and prize days.
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Building Of The Month - Two Houses - August 2019
“Maybe we could meet in Kinsale and see if the house is still there,” said Neil Hegarty, former Cork City architect. One bite and I was hooked...
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Building Of The Month - House at Ballyhennick- June 2020
When I came across these photos in the Tegral archive, I was amazed. I knew nothing at all about...
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