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Birr Community School, winner of the RIAI Gold Medal for the period 1980-82 and a key part of Ireland’s entry to the 2014 Venice Biennale on the theme of Absorbing Modernity..

Dirk Cove is a small harbour that faces southeast across Dirk Bay, sheltered by Dundeady headland, where blades of jagged rock jut out to sea...

This holiday house in the Gaeltacht by Denis Anderson was in the mix at much the same time as his renowned Castlepark Village in Kinsale but disappeared from public consciousness soon after featuring on the cover of...

The CIE Chassis Factory, designed for the manufacture of bus and lorry parts, including engines and eventually power units for diesel locomotives – all previously imported from the UK for assembly here – was the first of Michael Scott’s famous trilogy of buildings for the new national transport company (the others being Busáras and Donnybrook bus garage)...

There was a small house on this site in the shadow of Mount Leinster. Fairly typical of what you might find anywhere in rural Ireland, it had recently been built by a father for his son, who was..

The owners had a second home in this part of West Donegal since the 1960s and wanted to continue holidaying there with their children and grandchildren...

LeFanu Park is a large underused public park one block behind Ballyfermot Road, the area’s bustling, but traffic-dominated, shopping artery..

A housing crisis exploded in Dublin in the late 1960s and 1970s, highlighting the poor living conditions then widespread – the result of overcrowding, urban decay and the destructive impact of commuter traffic on inner city life...

Situated between The Coombe and South Circular Road, Donore Avenue Youth and Community Centre was built to serve a socially and economically disadvantaged parish that has the least recreational outdoor space in the inner city...

The context was typical of many parts of rural Ireland: a flat roadside site primed for ribbon development. The property had one unusual feature, however ...

This month we are highlighting some of the striking churches designed by the ‘father of modern church architecture in Ireland’...

Let’s think back, for a moment, to 1980, when the Royal Society of Ulster Architects, to its great credit, addressed the numbing reality of the first wave of leisure centres...

Liam McCormick (1916–1991) was one of the giants of Irish architecture. And of those giants, he might have been the most loved, not just by architects, but by the public, too...

Eurocampus is a joint initiative of Lycée Français d’Irlande (LFI) and St Killian’s Deutsche Schule (German school) to create “a learning environment in which different European traditions mutually enrich each other to create an awareness and acceptance of diversity...

Paul Keogh and Rachael Chidlow have long had an interest in vernacular architecture, born not out of any sense of nostalgia but inspired by the theories of Aldo Rossi, which ...

This is a brilliantly planned local authority development of 25 houses, one of the best in Ireland – at least from an architectural perspective...

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...

When judging the 2012 AAI Awards, Professor Michael McGarry identified the distinguishing quality of this modest 50sqm domestic extension: how it responds to a rural condition and yet is not preoccupied with the vernacular or burdened by the existing house...

Of all Irish architects, Noel Dowley is the one most associated with, as he puts it, creating ‘an architecture of modest means’...

Social housing in Ireland has traditionally been regarded as building rather than architecture, and it shows. Driving through the capital’s sprawling western suburbs is dispiriting. There is a bland and dreary sameness to what was built before we stopped building...

Irish architectural awards and media coverage consistently lavish praise on smart and stylish domestic extensions, particularly since the advent of the Celtic Tiger, when, as property prices began to soar, it often made more sense to extend than trade up...

When he first made Northern Ireland his home three decades ago David Brett, the English design historian and co-author with Alan Jones of ‘Toward an Architecture: Ulster’, chanced to remark that he considered himself an atheist...

This month, we revisit a controversial, short-lived modern church, built on a 1,400-year-old site of Christian worship. The church won no architectural awards although...

We spoke to London-based Dubliner, Angela Brady, about her firm’s best-known building in Ireland...

We spoke to Ryan Kennihan, a Chicagoan settled in Ireland since 2002 and the inaugural winner of the RIAI’s Best Emerging Practice award...