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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

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
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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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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.

Grangegorman, TUD, Technological University for Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology, DIT, Morrison scholarship, Architectural education, BIM, building research, architecture & community, architectural technology, QQI standard, PDAP, Leon Van Schaik, Vitruvius, thesis, theory, praxis, model making, photoshop, drawing, hut, wattle and daub, yurt, office, supermarket, mixed use, universal access, BIM model, legislation, Parker Morris, studio typology, minimum space, DCC, dwelling, Galway city, suburban edge, joinery, jewellery box, marquetry panel, metaphysical subtleties, architectural habitus, style council, stylistic hierarchies, economic base, architectural superstructure, architectural ideology, Heideggers, thesis, Henry J Lyons, Noonan Moran Architects, Bluett O’Donoghue Architects, NDBA Architects, Moloney O’Beirne Architects (MOB), O’Keeffe Architects, Scott Tallon Walker Architects (STW), Teroco, Carey Associates Architects – Project Managers & Energy, O’Mahony Pike Architects (OMP), Conroy Crowe Kelly Architects & Urban Designers (CCK), O’Connell Mahon, David Wright Architects, Jones Engineering, Niall Smith Architects, Robinson Keefe & Devane Architects (RKD), Montessori, playschool, early education
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Architectural Survey 1961

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, shop, pub, bar, airport, DAA, Dublin Airport, Convent, secondary school, primary school, social housing, flats, masionette, office,
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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 7

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.

Bord na Móna Headquarters, That daft draft directive, Subventions to Housing, RIAI Council, Brick Seminar, Competing against the clock, Ballinasloe Featured, The Architectural Association, Townscape, National Housing Conference, Derelict Land, Architect Board Members, Pascal Lavin, Liam Cregan, Pat O’Daley, Tom McKenna, Myles Murphy, Dermot Grumley, Donal Proctor, Jim Halpin, W. O’Sullivan, Paul Richardson, John Sisk & Son, Henk Snoek Photography
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Architecture Ireland 287

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #287 focuses on themes of housing, Danish architecture and the Venice Biennale.

architecture review, book review, housing, venice biennale
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RIAI Bulletin 56

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.

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, concrete, materiality, design, detail, specification,
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Architecture Ireland 291

Editor: Dr Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #291 focuses on the theme 'can architecture save housing?'.

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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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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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Empirical: 2019-2020

Editor: Kirk McCormack.
Journal
€ 11.00 

Empirical is an annual architectural research journal by TU Dublin architectural technology students exploring environmental design, digitalisation, materials, and building performance.

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Architecture Ireland 277

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #277 focuses on topics such as the housing crisis, and celebrating O'Donnell and Tuomey's Royal Gold Medal.

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Architecture Ireland 300

Editor: Sandra O’Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #300 focuses on the theme of ‘FREESPACE, La Biennale di Venezia'.

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Office Location and Regional Development: Proceedings of a Conference

Authors: Dr. D. F. Moore, Michael B. Lawless, Michael J. Bannon, John Goddard, Bertil Thorngren, Jan Toby, George Yannopoulos.
Book
€ 7.95 

This publication documents a two-day conference from 1973 discussing office location and regional development. Topics include reviewing the existing pattern of office location, considering future policies, and referencing international practice.

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Back to the Street

Author: Gerry Cahill.
Book
€ 6.00 

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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A Guide to Modern Architecture in Dublin

Editor: Tomás O'Beirne.
Book
€ 9.00 

Featuring projects from 1953 to 1977, this book lays out 109 examples of modern architecture in Dublin, varying in occupation and scale, from small housing schemes and churches, to masterplan university development and city office blocks.

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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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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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streets for living: a conference on residential road design

Editor: Eoghan Brangan.
Book
€ 7.95 

Organised by an Foras Forbartha, this paper documents the proceedings of a conference on residential road design from Jury’s Hotel in Dublin in May 1976.

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