
- Building of the Month

01/07/2020
Building Of The Month - A House in a Garden - February 2019
When last has there been such a lovely, dumpy, cuddly little thing built? Not just in Ireland, but in the whole wide world?...
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Building Of The Month - House at Aill Breac - March 2019
A little house was made on the Wild Atlantic Way, under a small mountain, overlooking the sea, with Slyne Head to the west, a pier below, and surrounded by the loose suburbia typical of the place...

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Building Of The Month - The Red Pavillion - August 2015
With the holiday season in full swing, we travel back 25 years for our second Building of the Month to 1990..

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Building Of The Month - Teach Annie - May 2017
The owners had had a second home in this part of West Donegal since the 1960s and wanted to continue holidaying there with their children and grandchildren...

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Building Of The Month - St Brendan’s Community School- October 2017
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..

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Building Of The Month - House at Dirk Cove - September 2017
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...

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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 - 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 - Seafield Fabrics Ltd- May 2020
Tegral’s Big Six corrugated sheets roofed many of these often unprepossessing structures, the everyday buildings of working life and weekend entertainment...

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Building Of The Month - Five Churches - December 2016
In October we marked Liam McCormick’s centenary by featuring his renowned St Conal’s Church at Glenties in Co Donegal, but we could not let this anniversary year pass without highlighting some of the other striking churches designed

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Building Of The Month - Eurocampus - September 2016
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...

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Building Of The Month - The Segal Method in Ireland- July 2020
Walter Segal (1907–1985) is best known as the godfather of self-build housing, notably at ..

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Building Of The Month - Morehampton Mews - September 2019
What Dublin wouldn’t give to have the late Denis Anderson still active today – coming up with genius, rule-breaking solutions for superb housing that...

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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 - St Mary's College RFC Clubhouse - September 2015
With Rugby World Cup 2015 in full swing in England, we revisit a striking work of sports architecture from 40 years ago...