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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.

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

Exposure and Obscurity: We need to talk about Pearse Street

In this article, Laoise McGrath reflects on the challenges presented by wide streets, the prioritisation of cars over people, and the potential for more inclusive urban environments.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

Molly Malone’s breasts and the production of space

The groping of the Molly Malone in Dublin reveals a complex new urban condition – the algorithmic production of space. Social media, viral images, new modes of capitalist production, foreground the emergence of an entirely new logic of spatial production. What does this mean for the possibility of a right to the city?

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Future Reference

From many places together in one. Learning and sharing.

Interdisciplinary gatherings, and particularly those of an artistic nature, offer a great opportunity to learn in unpredictable ways by bringing together creatives from diverse fields. In this article, Kristýna Korčáková explores how the ‘MEDS’ programme provides this chance.

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Present Tense
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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.

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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Architecture Ireland 298

Editor: Sandra O'Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #298 focuses on the theme of 'adaptive reuse'.

building review, book review, interview, adaptive reuse, venice biennale
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Architecture Ireland 316

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #316 focuses on the theme of ‘value’.

A framework for our architectural future, The pursuit of place value, Demonstrating the value of architecture through post-occupancy evaluation, Ethical values in architecture, A register of shared values - The potential of alternative frameworks in public procurement, Valuing our future, Remembering John Peter Andrews, Truth, flags, and identity - On the intersection between art and architecture, Deliberation and circumstance - An interview with Tara Kennedy on her first five years in practise, The role of remote working for the future, Detail: 5CUBE, The Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street Dublin and Its First Residents 1720-80, Cork’s Modern Architect: The Work of Frank Murphy, Just designs, Thinking across scales - Lateral Office, A shelter for daydreaming, Hammam Hotel and Turkish Baths - James Adam & Sons 1922
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RIAI Bulletin 54

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 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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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.

Arigho Larmour Wheeler Architects, Ostick + Williams, Graeme Massie Architects, Henry J Lyons, Grafton Architects, Remembering Gus Cummins, Precision and representation - An interview with David Leech on his first five years in practice, The Construction Sector Innovation and Digital Adoption Subgroup - A progress report, Time in space - On the intersection between art and architecture, Belfield 50 - Conveying Space, Making Belfield: Space + Place at UCD, Tangled simplicity - Akihisa Hirata, RIAI Conference 2020, Two kilometres by twenty square metres, Ireland Pavilion, Osaka, Japan
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Architectural Survey 1955

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #02

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #02 explores the relationship between photography and suburban space. Three essays respond to the intimate link between the medium of photography and the spaces we occupy.

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #09

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
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€ 4.00 

2ha #09 considers the role of leisure practices in forming the spatial order of suburban landscapes. Four essays detail the social codes, individual desires, and official policies that determine the structure of free time.

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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.

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Architecture Ireland 302

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.

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RIAI Bulletin 30

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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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 Sprawling Newspaper

Editors: Michelle Delea, Sarah Mulrooney, Niamh Hurley, Anastasiya Karabanava, Darren O’Connor, Grace Kiernan.
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The Sprawling Newspaper emerged during the production of The Sprawling Octopus of an Elevated Highway, a documentary film which centres around a public campaign against the B.K.S. traffic plan for Cork in 1968.

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Rural

Author: Dominic Stevens.
Book
€ 5.90 

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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20 Irish Buildings You Should Know

Editors: Róisín Bean, Tim Connell, Brian Gargan, Paul Kelly, Adam McLoughlin, Jack Prendergast.
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Twenty twentieth-century Irish buildings that students of architecture should know, as chosen by TU Dublin fourth-year architecture students.

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Ireland in the Year 2000

Book
€ 7.95 

This paper documents the proceedings of a colloquy on Ireland in the Year 2000, held in Kilkea Castle in February 1980.

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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.

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