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In this article, Sinéad Hickey discusses gender mainstreaming in urban spaces through the lense of teenager and women in sport. Sinéad explores the nature of spaces provided for teenagers, the disparity in provision for genders, and the issues affecting teenage girls use of these public spaces in particular.
ReadAll Dubliners accept that the fair city is inseparable from James Joyce's Ulysses. Yet Joyce's novel is saturated with a hidden ingredient: milk. This industry is an essential part of our national image, but its relationship with the fabric and women of Dublin has been largely forgotten. What if we redrew Joyce’s Dublin through milk?
ReadReflecting on her time spent thatching Irish homes, Alice Bowler considers what an endangered craft might teach us about care, materials and building in step with the land.
ReadJonathan F. Bell examines the continuities between pre-Modern industrial architecture, Modern contributions to industrial typologies, and current adaptations of these buildings in a postindustrial landscape.
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Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
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.
This paper reports on a study investigating aspects of housing estates related to the pedestrian precinct or residential yard concept.
Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #285 focuses on topics such as the 1916 Rising and recent architecture projects such as Loreto's Sport Centre.
2ha #11 considers the idea of architectural failure in the popular perception of suburban worlds.
Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
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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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Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #285 focuses on topics such as the RIAI Annual Awards and commercial architecture.
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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 is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #308 focuses on the theme of ‘tenure and type’.
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Jointly published by the Housing Resarch Unit at the School of Architecture in University College Dublin and Cement-Roadstone Holdings Ltd., Back to the Street records Dublin inner-city housing at the beginning of the 1980s and proposes a strategy of urban renewal through the provision of housing to deal with city dereliction and decay.
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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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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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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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An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.
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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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