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A space for public opinion and debate, engaging with a broad range of contributors in architecture, landscape, urban design, planning, and beyond.

Effects and intentions

This article considers the late architect and critic Michael Sorkin’s advice for writing about design and buildings – ‘credit effects, not intentions’ – in relation to a recent suite of planning policies that influence architecture in Ireland. In safe-guarding against the failure of design experiments of the past, however well intentioned, do we suppress the potential for successful innovation in the future?

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Future Reference

The embodied carbon dilemma

The severity of the climate emergency cannot be understated. Embodied carbon and the reuse of existing buildings remain under-represented in policy, procurement, and the design of the built environment sector. This presents a dilemma: how can we harness, rather than squander, embodied carbon?

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Future Reference

When musicians take to the streets

A lively street full of people and music is often portrayed as a hallmark of the Irish city. Yet our urban realm doesn't always support performance. Looking at two streets – one in Waterford and another in Limerick – we see how public space can work for buskers and sometimes against them.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

This is my church

Every Irish town has a church, one at least, well-positioned locally; a place traditionally of communion and memory, now part of a wider trend of underuse, heading towards abandonment. A unique model for repurposing vacant churches has emerged in Flanders, offering a path to reuse rather than redundancy.

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One Good Idea

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Architectural Survey 1971

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

UCD, university, belfield, brutalism, church, religious, ecclesiastical, reconstruction, refurbishment, NGI, gallery, art gallery, school, education, residential, social housing, public housing, council house, ESB offices, Georgian Dublin, demolition, factory, industry, industrial, offices
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Architectural Survey 1972

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

Sculpture, sculptor, art, Ian Stuart, fountain, Stephen Court, library, questionnaire, submission, residential, education, schools, shopping centre, ESC, district, offices, public toilets, public bathrooms, social housing, public housing, computers, BOI, bank, hospitality,
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Architectural Survey 1967

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

Under construction, leisure, clubhouse, health, residential, social housing, showroom, Opera House, church, ecclesiastical, religious, hotel, hospitality, pavilion, factory, estate, sculpture, pitch, apartment, TCD, Trinity College Dublin, pub, bar, renovation, refurbishment, aerial photography, photography
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Architectural Survey 1966

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

Church, Bank, Airport, Museum, Flats, Social Housing, Clubhouse, Café, sculpture, furniture, tower block, office block, apartment block, mid-rise, restaurant, hospitality, residential, education, health, university College Dublin, Belfield
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Architectural Survey 1969

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

Church, Hospital, Commerce, Health, Industry, Education, Religion, Housing, Public Service, Recreation, school, extension, factory, nursing home, bank, RTE, restaurant, Montrose, brutalism, modern architecture, offices, Planetarium, Armagh, Branch Bank, bank, Ballybrack, Chapel, church, Gonzaga College, secondary school, Ranelagh, Horseleap, Westmeath, Nurses’ home, Drogheda, Louth, Apartments, Sussex Road, Rowan House, Mews, Pembroke Lane, County Hall, Cork, Castlefreke Hotel, Knitwear Factory, factory, Monasterevin, Lansdowne House, Ballsbridge, Vocational School, Ballyfermot, Offices, workshop, Institute for Industrial Research, IIRS, Ballymun, Donnycarney, Coolock, Foras Taluntais, Laboratory, lab, Fermoy, Wilton Terrace, Fitzwilton House
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Architectural Survey 1965

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

Church, Hospital, Commerce, Health, Industry, Education, Religion, Housing, Public Service, Recreation, school, extension, political, embassy, chancellery, Bank, offices, hotel, Louis LeBrocquy, Patrick McElroy, Desmond Kinney, mural, tapestry, art, pub, social housing, flats, private house, residential, factory, stained glass, oisin Kelly, Royal Hospital, Belfast, Church, Sion Mills, Tyrone, Murlough, Donegal, Cooleragh, Tec, School, extension, secondary school, Leix, Clogher Road, Harold’s Cross, Crumlin, carlow, offices, insurance, Dame Street, US Embassy, embassy, Ballsbridge, grand parade, airline, aviation, Westmoreland Street, Newforge Lane, Bank, Suffolk Street, Shaftesbury Square, hotel, Tivoli, Cork, Louis LeBrocquy, Patrick McElroy, Desmond Kinney, Bronze Mural, Decoration, Carrickmacross, Concrete Mural, Mural, Belfast, Hotel Extension, Anglesea Street, Municipal Housing, Bridgefoot Street, social housing, flats, Housing scheme, estate, Ennis Road, Limerick, Private House, housing, Clondalkin, Baltimore, Annadale Road, Factory, Baldonnel, Factory, Inchicore, Shelter, Moran Park, Dun Laoghaire, DLR, People’s Park, Municipal Baths, baths, sea bathing, Bray, Wicklow, Public House, Ormeau Road, pub, bar, frieze, Patrick McIlroy, Patrick Pollen, Werner Schurmann,
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Architectural Survey 1971

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

Read more

Architectural Survey 1972

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

Read more

Architectural Survey 1967

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

Read more

Architectural Survey 1966

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

Read more

Architectural Survey 1969

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

Read more

Architectural Survey 1965

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 EUR

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

Read more

The Square Kilometre: Naked House Naked City

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Greg Keeffe, Rebecca Jane McConnell.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

This publication seeks to explore some of the hidden architectures that influence and condition life in the city on a daily basis, beginning within the servicing of the house and expanding over a square kilometre of city fabric.

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Thirty-Three Churches

Authors: Sophie Kelliher, David Lawless.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

Thirty-Three Churches explores the potential of altering Dublin’s existing stock of church buildings to include housing, while still functioning as a place of worship. Published as part of the Housing Unlocked exhibition in 2022.

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This is Content. This is Theory. This is Craft.

Editors: Tim Connell, Emma Kavanagh, Peter MacClancy, Adam McLoughlin, Michael Sykes.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

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

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DSA 2020

Editors: Stephen Allen, Mark Chester, Romy Marren, Lasairíona Power.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

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

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LINE 01

Editors: Caoimhe Power, Gabriella Brady, Helen McFadden, Lauren Forde.
Book
€ 0.00 EUR

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

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Rural

Author: Dominic Stevens.
Book
€ 5.90 EUR

Rural is a collection of projects and essays on contemporary issues facing rural modes of inhabitations and ways to reimagine their potential future.

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