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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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Architectural Survey 1969

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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 1958

Edited by: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Office, School, education, primary school, secondary school, Kilmacud, shrine, jesuit, ecclesiastical architecture, church, technical school, house, residential, aer lingus, aviation, shop, pub, bar, grafton street, coffee shop, coffee, factory, zoo, hostel, theatre, Gate Theatre, Meath, Galway, Dublin, Belfast, Antrim, Cork, Waterford, Sligo, Kildare,
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #15

Editors: Michael K. Hayes, Alan Mee.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #15 considers sprawl: how to define and find it, how to evaluate its impacts, and how to respond, as urban designers, to the spatial conditions that sprawl engenders.

Switzerland, Kosovo, Leopardstown Shopping Centre, Ballyogan, Naas Road Framework, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, suburbia, sprawl, urban design, UCD studio, suburbanisation, density, morphological districts, calculating sprawl, Parallel Sprawl, Ballyopen, Daisy-Chain Urbanism, Dissolving Differences, Creating Connections, Collective Identity and Suburban Social Networks
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Architecture Ireland 273

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #274 focuses on the theme of 'architecture and landscape'.

architecture review, book review, landscape design, landscape architecture
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House and Home

Editor: Colum O'Riordan.
Book
€ 10.00 

House and Home features over forty original architectural drawings, as well as publications, models and photographs, for residential projects in Ireland. Reflecting the chronological spread of the Irish Architectural Archive’s holdings, the works range from the mid 18th century to the late 20th.

residential, housing, home, domestic, country house, history, architecture, thatched cottages, suburban semi-Ds, one-off bungalows, blocks of flats, Francis Johnston, Charles Geoghegan, Joseph Connolly, Desmond FitzGerald, Donal O’Neill Flanagan, Jack O’Hare, Jacques Gabriel Huquier, Joseph Jarratt, Isaac Ware, Edward Miller, James Gandon, Charles William Bury, John Bowden, William Murray, Lucy Edgeworth, William Vitruvius Morrison, Daniel Robertson, Sandham Symes, Thomas Christopher Antisell, Axel Haig, Alfred Gresham Jones, Charles Ashworth, Robert J. Stirling, Henry Sibthorpe and Son, Ashlin and Coleman, McDonnell and Dixon, William Mitchell and Sons, Ralph Henry Byrne, W. H. Byrne, Michael Scott, Higginbottom and Stafford, Buckley and O'Gorman, Dublin Housing Inquiry, Noel Moffett, Frank Gibney, Hugh Doran, Aoghagan Brioscú, John L. Griffith, National Building Agency, Jack Fitzzimons, Robin Walker, Arthur Gibney, Simon J. Kelly, Raymond MacDonnell
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RIAI Bulletin 50

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.

Holy Trinity Church Donaghmede, Church at Firhouse, Bord na Mona, UCD Restaurant, RTE Radio Building, A. & D. Wejchert, de Blacam & Meagher, Stephenson Associates, Scott Tallon Walker, The National Plan, Urban Enterprise Zones, Development in Glass, Carnegie Libraries, Notes on Glass, The Building Control Bill 1984, Images, Pictorial, Glass and Glazing, Rationalisation and the fall of man, RIAI Reports, Oh Rats!, New Products, The 1985 Budget Statement By RIAI, Saarinen - National Romantic Trends in Finnish Architecture, Concrete Practice in Ireland 1985, RIAI Bulletin 1-50, Council, Annual Conference, Building Exhibition, Extraordinary General Meeting, Northern Report, Western Report, Hardcore, Council, Council Reports, Council Ballot Results, Council for 1985, Planning, Obituaries, Liam Boyle, News from the Regions, Maurice Hogan, New Housing Ideas, Joint Labour Committee, Fellows, Construction and the National Plan, National Construction Conference, Pilkington Glass Ltd., Trinity Library, Kildare Street Club, St Columbas, PMPA, John Donat, The Window Manufacturers’ View, Richview Ball, RIAI Annual General Meeting, Construction Industry Statistics 1984, Architecture of Islamic Spain, Dun Laoghaire Plan, Georgian Dublin - Policy for Survival, Brian O’ Connell, Improving Public Housing, Architects for Peace, SAAT Launches CPD Scheme, Mountshannon County Clare, Loughlin Kealy, 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, Glass, energy, bulletin, journals
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RIAI Bulletin 28

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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2ha: the journal of suburban design #03

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #03 explores the relationship between suburban morphology and public spaces. Three essays observe existing conditions and propose an architectural response. A fourth and final essay describes a real intervention which deals with conceptions of public and private in suburbia.

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RIAI Bulletin 35

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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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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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'.

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Architecture Ireland 301

Editor: Sandra O’Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #301 focuses on the theme of ‘Community & Place’.

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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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UCD Architecture 2007

Editors: Brian Ward, Pierre Jolivet, Gerry Hayden.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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

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

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

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Thirty-Three Churches

Authors: Sophie Kelliher, David Lawless.
Book
€ 0.00 

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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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2018

Editors: Carol Lawlor, Deimante Paplauskaite, Alice George, Paris Brown, Conor Grossman.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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