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Saving Stephen’s Green: is commercial architecture at odds with heritage?

In this article, Marta Hervás Oroza examines how the redevelopment of Stephen's Green Shopping Centre has prompted a reassessment of what qualifies as heritage; as well as the role active participation plays in shaping our built environment.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

The boy who cried renderings: the ethics of architectural visualisations

In professional discussions around architecture today, renderings are the elephant in the room. They are a principal means of communicating large-scale project proposals and frequently face widespread criticism on their accuracy and ethics. As a general subject, however, they remain marginally studied. Are attacks on their realism merely hysterics, or a cause for concern?

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Future Reference

Drafting Identity: The Loom vs the Machine

In this article, Róisín Hayes starts our new mini-series ‘Drafting Identity’ which focuses on the experience of women in Architectural Education from both personal and professional perspectives, supporting the FIAE movement. Róisín explores the craft and making of architecture, and the emotional intelligence inherent in her work.

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Present Tense

Value judgements

In the latest edition of 'the write-up', Alex Curtis reviews the Architectural Association of Ireland's 'Systems and Selves' lecture, which this year featured Carmody Groarke.

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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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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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RIAI Bulletin 2

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.

Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, schools, conservation, building regulation, VAT, public works, committees, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, The Irish Architects Society, European Economic Society, International Union of Architects, Institute of Architectural & Associated Technology, Board of Architectural Education, Building Industry Committee, Gold Medal, Award, RIAI council, HEA Report, Society of Designers, Law Court, EEC, Presentation of Certificates of Membership, Presentation of Certificates for the RIAI Gold Medal Awards, Annual Report of Council, Statement of Accounts and Auditors’ Report, Appointment of Auditors, President’s Report, Election of Council, Motion to be Proposed on Behalf of Council, Other Business, Liaison Committee of the Building Industry, Council Matters, EEC Liaison Committee, Mews Development, Society of Designers in Ireland‍, Regional Committees, Value Added Tax, Registration Committee, Board of Architectural Education, H.E.A., Response to the Appeal, List of Officers and Council, Board of Architectural Education, Housing Committee, Premises & Finance, Professional Standards Committee, Professional Conduct Committee, Building Industry Committee, Liaison Committee Representative, Information Services Committee, Planning Committee, Salaried Members Committee, Representatives on Outside Bodies, Dublin Urban Landscape Study, Parking Policy in Dublin, Use of the title ‘Architect’ and ‘Engineer’, Proposed New Law Courts, Architectural Heritage Year, Courses, Lectures, Conferences, Fashion Show, Competition, Position Sought, Press Release, Design for Disabled, Directory on the Building and Re-Organisation of Churches
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RIAI Bulletin 44

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.

Riordan Kavanagh O’Reilly, Maoliosa O’Flynn, Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, Review, Crisis in the Industry, House of Today, RIAI Conference 1983, Brick in the Irish Context, Kevin Roche, Microcomputer, Theses, Art in Architecture, RIAI Medal for Housing, The decline of the building industry, The first national house of today, Council, Letter to Taoiseach, Annual Dinner, Rates for Wages, Emoluments, and Expenses, RIAI Practice Notice, Public Sector Fees, IABS, Irish Architects’ Benevolent Society, Fireplaces in 8 Merrion Square, The signing of buildings, News from the Schools, Bolton Street, International Prize for Architecture 1983-1984 of the Belgian National Housing Institute, Passive Solar Design, Rooflighting Design Competition, Adrian Smith, John O’Reilly, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, decline, recession, unemployment, brick, exhibition,
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Architecture Ireland 284

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #284 focuses on the theme of 'housing & place'.

architecture review, building review, housing, urban planning, town planning
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The Hidden Architecture of Things

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Gregory Keeffe.
Book
€ 0.00 

This book investigates the global architecture of commodities. It does so by examining the spaces of production and transportation of seven specific items, chosen for their ubiquity within everyday life. In doing so, we not only realise how a washing machine can relate to a banana, but also how, as architects, we might begin to design alternatives.

energy, architecture, food, water, source, origins, Anthropocene, fetish, commodities, intermodal
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Architectural Survey 1971

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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RIAI Bulletin 34

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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Architecture Ireland 311

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #311 focuses on the theme of 'data'.

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Architectural Survey 1963

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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RIAI Bulletin 3

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 9

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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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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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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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2016

Editors: Philip Duffy, Anne-Lise Olivier, Julia Vivien Rober, Colin Mac Suibhne, Stephen Johnston.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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Accuracy and Dimensional Control in Building

Author: Nicholas M. Ryan.
Book
€ 7.95 

This paper explains the nature of dimensional deviation in prefabricated elements and that the development of designs should include a clear approach to accommodate or control deviations when they do occur.

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UCD Architecture 2008

Editor: Pierre Jolivet.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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Observation Study of Housing Estate Elements

Authors: R. Mulvihill, E. Burke, N. Byrne.
Book
€ 7.95 

This paper reports on a study investigating aspects of housing estates related to the pedestrian precinct or residential yard concept.

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