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Blockchain: the other AI revolution

Blockchain can offer a secure, transparent way to record agreements, and therefore holds potential across construction and property sectors, enabling real-time verification, automating payments, and improving data reliability. Yet its adoption in this context remains limited. In this article, Garry Miley discusses the possible impacts and limitations to the technology’s implementation.

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Open Space

 The potential of political design

Highly visible and emotionally charged, electoral campaigns are often the first instance in which a state’s people encounter their elected representatives. In this article, Anna Cassidy, designer for Catherine Connolly's presidential campaign, examines how political design is indispensable to the democratic process.

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Future Reference

Fellow humans

In May 2024, the Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys installed a portal between Dublin and New York. In this article, Felix Hunter Green explores how the portal (the third of its kind at the time) introduced a new form of present tense, a remote urbanism, to the fabric of North Earl Street.

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Present Tense

Happy the city where citizens participate

Ciarán Ferrie makes the case for more citizen participation in city life, culture, community, and democracy.

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One Good Idea
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Architecture Ireland 296

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #296 focuses on the theme 'architecture in practice'.

book review, building review, interview
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RIAI Bulletin 48

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

Council, Annual Conference, Building Exhibition, Extraordinary General Meeting, Southern Report, Northern Report, Western Report, Flat Roof Problems, George’s Quay Development, Primary School Building Projects - Conditions for Brief for all Consultants, Debate, New House Loans: Building Society Regulations, Scandinavian Modern Design 1880-1980, Michael de Courcy - An Appreciation, competition, UNESCO competition, News from the Schools, Dublin-Bogota Student Exchange, Controlling House Construction Costs, Michael de Courcy, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, George’s Quay, Flat roof, EGM, practise notice, UCD, University College Dublin, Bolton Street, student exchange, UNESCO, The Full Circle, Public Relations and the RIAI, Marketing of Professional Services, Battlements and Castle Air, Community Architecture, Architecture and Environment, Cork and Ross Church Competition, My Consulting Engineer and I, Hardcore, Architects Architecture and Environmental Management in Ireland,
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Architecture Ireland 324

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #324 focuses on the theme of ‘Galway’.

urbanism, urban design, city growth, urban growth, density, residential, school, education, university, theory, review, exhibition, town, city
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The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part I)

Author: Myles Wright.
Book
€ 7.95 

The first of the two volumes, The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part I) examines the social, economic and physical resources of county Dublin and its environs with a view to guide the use of land and public and private building works for the following thirty years.‍

Metropolitan Dublin, Man-made Aspects of the Region, Compact Grouping of Population, Small Towns, Dublin’s Port and Airport, The City of Dublin, the Region in Summary, Need for Forecasts, Basics of Forecasts, Population Growth and Distribution, Future Distribution, Conditions Governing Growth, Advantages of Metropolitan Dublin, The Choices to be Made, Favourable Location Needed, Growth near Dublin, Sharp Boundary between City and Countryside, Rural Employments, Small Size of Towns, Encouragement of Growth, Study of Rural Centres, Access to Trunk Roads, Regional Road Proposals, Choice of Centres for Development, An Uaimh (Navan) and Arklow, Local District Centres, Scale of Growth Recommended, Major Growth Probable, Estimates of Social Need, Spreading the Lord, The Central Problem, The Great Change, Determination to Use Cars, Three Aims, New Towns, Near Together, 150000 dwelling, density of development, Three Requirements of New Development, 20,000 acres needed, Growth of Motor Traffic, Impossibility of Speedy and Large Road Improvements in Dublin, Traffic Congestion a Dublin Problem, Spreading the Load, choice of sites, disadvantage of the coasts, northern coast, southern coast, advantages of the western area, growth westwards, proposed sites, linear towns and green spaces, gradual dispersal of traffic load, traffic routes and access roads, advantages of a grid pattern, new major routes, proposed road framework for metropolitan Dublin, Relationship of Road Framework and the Western Towns, Road Proposals for the City, Greater Expenditure on roads, Division of Expenditure between central and outer roads, peak-hour, travel by rail likely to Decline, travel by Car, Bus travel to the centre, express buses on cross-journeys, public transport in other districts, town centres, layout and transport needs, sites for factories, offices, industrial estates, residential layout, pedestrian crossings, trade, cargo handling, shipping
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Architecture Ireland 299

Editor: Sandra O'Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #299 focuses on architecture in the West of Ireland.

Public Choice Award, RCSI, 26 York Street, Dublin, Henry J Lyons, New School in Town, Westport, SJK Architects, One Microsoft Place, Dublin, RKD Architects, Special Jury Award, No 14 Henrietta Street, Tenement Museum Dublin, Shaffrey Architects, Small Commercial, Workplace, Fallahogey Studio, Kilrea, Northern Ireland, McGarry-Moon Architects Ltd, Big Commercial, Workplace, 1 WML Office, Windmill Lane, Dublin, MOLA Architecture, The Future Award, John Monahan, NOJI Architects, Education, New School in Town, Westport, SJK Architects, RCSI, 26 York Street, Dublin, Henry J Lyons, Health, Northwest Cancer Centre, O’Connell Mahon Architects, Isherwood and Ellis Architects, House, Vaulted House, GKMP Architects, House Extension, St. Catherine’s Dublin, Ryan W. Kennihan Architects, Housing, Clancy Quay, OMP Architects, Lindsay Conservation Architects, Public Space, Port Centre Precinct, Dublin, Darmody Architecture, DLR Red Jetty, A2 Architects, Alan Meredith Studio, International, Thapar University, India, McCullough Mulvin Architects, DPA, New Delhi, Conservation, Restoration, No 14 Henrietta Street, Tenement Museum Dublin, Shaffrey Architects, Sustainability, The Mews, DLRA, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Architects Department, Culture/Public, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Heneghen peng Architects, Blackwood Associates Architects, Small Fit-Out Project, Meath County Council HQ, Navan, Bucholz McEvoy Architects, Universal Design, Newry Leisure Centre, Kennedy FitzGerlad Architects LLP
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Mapped: a study of planned Irish villages

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

Mapped is the outcome of a Dublin School of Architecture research project interested in the origins and morphology of Irish villages. The book is intended as a guide to planned villages; those distinctly formed by the actions of landlords, religious groups, and entrepreneurs.

Mountbellow, Ballitore, Mountmellick, Doeraile, Ballyhaise, Cookstown, Stratford On Slaney, Monivea & New Birmingham, Castlecomer, Gracehill, Abbeyleix, Clara, Tyrrellspass, estate villages, industrial settlements, Quakers, Palladian, Stewart, Utopia, Moravian, Vesci, Lady Jane McKey, Portlaw, Atlantic coast, Alexander Nimmo, Letterfrack, famine relief, Bessbrook, Sion Mills, Religion, New Lanark
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Architectural Survey 1959

Editor: Patrick M. Delany
Journal
€ 4.75 

Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.

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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 6

Editor: Tomas O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

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RIAI Bulletin 40

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #15

Editors: Michael K. Hayes, Alan Mee.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #15 considers sprawl: how to define and find it, how to evaluate its impacts, and how to respond, as urban designers, to the spatial conditions that sprawl engenders.

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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 3

Editor: Tomas O'Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

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Architecture Ireland 300

Editor: Sandra O’Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #300 focuses on the theme of ‘FREESPACE, La Biennale di Venezia'.

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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2018

Editors: Carol Lawlor, Deimante Paplauskaite, Alice George, Paris Brown, Conor Grossman.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.

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Regional Planning: a review of regional studies

Author: Henk van der Kamp.
Book
€ 7.95 

Carried out by An Foras Forbartha, this study was conducted to develop linkages between local, regional, and national planning in Ireland.

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UTOPIA 7

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

UTOPIA 7 is a published a study of utopian settlements in Ireland by students in the Dublin School of Architecture.

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The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II)

Author: Myles Wright
Book
€ 7.95 

The second of the two volumes, The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II) examines the social, economic and physical resources of county Dublin and its environs with a view to guide the use of land and public and private building works for the following thirty years.‍

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Carlow Carbon Futures: vol. 1

Editors: Sean Brunswick, Orla McKeever, Sam Carse, Juliette Bosschaert.
Book
€ 0.00 

Fuelled by love, rage, and imagination, this publication displays the wide variety of student work produced as part of a regional vision for a zero-carbon County Carlow by 2050.

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The Relative Importance of Elements of Low Rise Housing Environments

Author: Ray Mulvihill.
Book
€ 7.95 

This working paper documents research undertaken to discover residents’ views on their housing environments to identify those elements associated with overall satisfaction and to make such information available to designers and policy makers.

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