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The weaving shed

Ailbhe Beatty explores the relationship between craft, culture, and heritage in Irish towns, examining how workshop spaces reveal the story of a place in ways material and immaterial.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

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
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Architecture Ireland 321

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #321 focuses on the theme of 'wood'.

environment, conservation, bio, eco materials, environmentally friendly, clt, cross-laminated timber, wood, timber, construction, studio, unviersity, TUD, school, residential, commercial, detail, London, Victoria & Albert, Museum, book, review, Trevor White, David Dickson, Graham Hickey, Merlo Kelly, Kathryn Milligan, Diarmuid Ó Gráda
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RIAI Bulletin 49

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, Hardcore, Council, Joint Labour Committee: Labour Court Inquiry, RIAI Press Statement, Southern Report, Western Report, Midwest Report, Mahon, Cork, Specifying Homegrown Timber, Annual Conference 1984, Blue studio, Sheila O’Donnell, Valerie Mulvin, Building Repair and Maintenance, Building Industry in Ireland, An Taisce ‘Context’ Awards, UCD Sports Buildings, St. Brigid’s Nursery Mountjoy Square, St. Stephen’s Church Killiney, National College of Art and Design, NCAD, Market Place Kinsale, Gouganbarra Public Toilet, Teahouse Tolleymore, Killinarden Heights, Local Authority Housing Maudlin Street Kilkenny, Coney Island Four Houses, Bord na Mona Head Office, The Granary Limerick, Life Association Ireland Office, AnCO Industrial Training Centre, IDA Development, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, practise notice, UCD, University College Dublin, Bolton Street, Timber strength, moisture content, timber specification, materiality, Code of Practice, regulation, timber stress, fire, street, Venice, Paris, discrimination, decline, Holy Cross Parish Church, Holy Cross Church Mahon, Cork and Ross, Home-grown Timber, Annual Conference, Structural Timber, City Quays, ContemporÉire, Overseas Employment, RIAI Budget Submission, Cork and Ross Church Competition, My Consulting Engineer and I, Urbanism, Dublin - A Tale of two Cities, Graduate Employment Opportunities Overseas, Rebuilding Dublin, Murray & Murray, Murphy & Partners, City Architecture Studio, A. & D. Wejchert, Cork County Council Architects Department, Ian Campbell & Partners, Peter & Mary Doyle, Burke-Kennedy Doyle & Partners, McKenna Brock, Liam McCormick & Partners, Dublin Corporation’s Housing Architect’s Department, John Thompson & Partners, Neil Hegarty, Kenny & Keappock, Lindsay Johnston, Stephenson Associates, Tom Breen, Turlough McKewitt, Ryan O’Brien Handy Associates,
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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.

Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, Review, Europa Nostra Award, Architect in Government, Murray Collection, UIA, Mont Kavanagh Award, A Dialogue, Plants and Buildings, Northern Report, Kenneth Frampton, Pre-Budget Meeting, RIAI Council 1983, Postscript, International Architectural Event for Dublin, National Heritage Bill 1982, RIAI Comments, Theft at RIAI, Ballot for Fellows, Council, Liffey Quays, David Watkins, Athenian Stuart: Pioneer of the Greek Revival, John Harris, William Talman: Maverick Architect, James Gandon, Francis Johnston, Royal Hiberinian Academy, Abbeville, Irish Concrete Society Awards 1983, Irish Concrete Society 1982 Award for Irishenco Site Team, Arts Award 1982, ARCO, Second European Passive Solar Competition 1982, Henry Aaron Baker, St George’s Church, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, AAI, awards, news, concrete
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Architectural Survey 1966

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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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Architecture Ireland 313

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #313 focuses on the theme of 'Limerick'.

Settlement, building, segregation: A history of Limerick city, Fundamental base: Thinking of the city from the ground up, Urban innovation: Realising the potential of Limerick’s Georgian neighbourhood, +Limerick: Innovation and infrastructure in the positive energy city, Many Limericks: The edge of the city, From Mellick to Bohane: Limerick and its literature, Ireland House Tokyo competition, Remembering Brian Hogan, Remembering Ian Campbell, Setting the scene, Future proofing your business for the ‘blended workplace’ of the future, Open Heart City, The Construction Contracts Act 2013 and insolvency: will they work together?, Publication of sanction decision, Space for Architecture: the work of O’Donnell + Tuomey, Cork: City and County, RIAI Women in Architecture 2020, Making space happen
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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 2, no. 2

Editor: Tomás 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.

RIAI Medal, Award, Triennial Award, Gold Medal, IMI, Sandyford, European Architectural Heritage, Land Prices, Foras Forbartha, Beamish & Crawford Tapestry Design, Shimmering Harvest, Angela Forde, RIBA Directory, Directory of Manufacturers, housing, Kinsale Architectural Heritage, William Garner, Housebuilding Slowdown, Building and Engineering Claims, W. T. Major, A. Ransom Oyez, Is this a Record, Housing Needs Assessment, Dame Street, Sam Stephenson, Brian Traynor, Gerry Flynn, Paul Richardson, Brouagh Moriarty, Ove Arup and Partners, J. A. Kenny and Partners, John Sisk and Sons Ltd., John Donat Photography, P. Twamley, J. McCullough & Partners, J. V. Tierney & Partners, S. Monahan & Partners
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Architecture Ireland 315

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #315 focuses on the Ireland House Tokyo architectural design competition.

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RIAI Bulletin 16

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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RIAI Bulletin 8

Editor: Peter Ferguson.
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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Architecture Ireland 294

Editor: Dr Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #294 focuses on the theme of 'conservation + reuse'.

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Architecture Ireland 323

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #323 focuses on the theme of ‘labour’.

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RIAI Bulletin 7

Editor: Peter Ferguson.
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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UCD Architecture 2006

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Hugh Campbell, Pierre Jolivet, Jim Murphy, Elizabeth Shotton.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.

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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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Ireland in the Year 2000: Towards a National Strategy

An Foras Forbartha
Book
€ 7.95 

This publication documents a 1983 colloquium concerned with the need for an Irish national strategic plan to provide the physical, economic, and social infrastructure required by the end of the 20th century.

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Domestic

Author: Dominic Stevens
Book
€ 5.90 

Domestic is a reflection on the design of domestic spaces by architect Dominic Stevens.

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DSA 2020

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

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

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The Bicycle: A study of efficiency, usage, and safety

Author: Dr. D. F. Moore.
Book
€ 7.95 

Financed by Irish Raleigh Ltd., this report is a general study of the efficiency, usage, and safety of the bicycle as a mode transport. As well as bicycle safety, this study considers housing estate layout in suburban areas and how it can minimise the adverse impact of motorised traffic on urban neighbourhoods.

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