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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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RIAI Bulletin 46

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.

Southern Report, Council, New Members, Northern Report, Western Report, Mid-Western Report, Continuing Professional Development, Specimen Structural Drawings for Modular Building, Murray Collection: A fund-raising appeal, marketing, house design competition, Europa Nostra Awards, New roles for architects, An Taisce Award, Society of Chartered Surveyors, Lectures, Equipment for Sale, The Architects’ Golfing Society, Cut price tendering, Payments to contractors, Glandore, 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, NUI, Architectural Graduates Association, UIA, Richview, University College Dublin, UCD, professionalism, legislation, the public, Glass and China Shop Dawson Street, Martello Mews, de Blacam & Meagher, Diamond Redfern Anderson, Denis Anderson, The Royal Hospital, Repair Work at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Conservation, Registration, The 2000 Plan, The President’s Inaugural Address, Interior, 1984 - The year for change, Statement on the Building Control Bill, Conservation and Re-Use of Buildings, Architectural Award to Geoffrey Bannister, Richview Open Day
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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.

architecture review, book review, irish architecture, housing design
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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.

public space, suburbia, civic space, margins, railway, infrastructure, urban design, architecture, Dún Laoghaire, Booterstown, Williamstown, Blackrock, commons, marginalia, deappendix, a no-place like home
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RIAI Bulletin 41

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.

Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, Review, Development Control, Rapid Rail Project, Richview Open Day, Neoprene, Oireachtas Committee on Building Land, Council, Letter, Joint Committee on Building Land, Leinster House, Residential Roads, The National Monuments Advisory Council, Northern Report, Mayo Report, RHA Exhibition, SDI Student Event, The Conservation of Historic Structures, Fairview - A Rapid Rail Maintenance Facility, Signal Relay Room to Central Train Control Building - Connolly Station, 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, SDI, Society of Designers in Ireland, train, rail, station, Connolly Station, UCD, University College Dublin
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RIAI Bulletin 10

Editor: Tomas O’Beirne.
1975
€ 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.

Ordinary General Meeting, OGM of the RIAI, President’s Report, Honorary Secretary’s Report, Presentation of Certificates, Inter-alia, Registration of Architects, National Prices Commission, Professional Fees, EEC Affairs, Technicians’ Commission, Annual Report of Council, Honorary Treasurer’s Report, Amendment to By-Laws, Study on Architect’s Fees, Gold Medal Award, Housing Medal Award, RIAI Conference, European Architectural Heritage Year, Use of High Alumina Cement, Efficient Lighting in Industry, Construction Industry Statistics, Building Costs Index, Posts in Honduras, UIA Assembly and Congress, Michael Scott Exhibition, Local Authority Housing, Professional Conduct Committee, Fellowship Election, Building Industry Council, Ideas Competition for Housing, EAHY 1975, Price Variation Clause, Salaried Members’ Committee, Cork City Architect, Housing Fellowship, Entry Regulations, Election of Council, Provincial Members, Architectural Journals, Final Exhibition Stage C, Free Architectural Service, Temporary Entry Regulations, Flow of Work, UIA Council, Offshore Oil and Gas, Scandinavian Summer Seminars, Manila Housing Community, EEC Matters, Building Industry Council, Computer Programming, Client/Design Team Form of Contract, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, exhibition, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, CAA, members, Election, report, EEC, housing, public relations, Registration, EEC Matters, Reciprocity, Study on Architects’ Fees, Fellowship Election, Gold Medal Award, Housing Medal Award, RIAI Conference, Building Industry Council, Ideas Competition for Housing, EAHY 1975, Price Variation Clause, Salaried Members’ Committee, Cork City Architect, Housing Fellowship, Redundancy Entry Regulations, Award of Distinction, Election to Fellowship, Contract Form, Use of High Alumina Cement, Construction Industry Statistics, Development Plan, Efficient Lighting in Industry, Building Costs Index, Building Industry Council, Computer Programming, Client/Design Team Form of Contract, Courses Attended, RIAI Award for Architectural Conservation, RIAI Dinner Dance, Form of Certificate, Bologna Conference, Michael Scott Exhibition, UIA Assembly and Congress, Local Authority Housing - Time Charge, Posts in Honduras, Annual Report of Council, Honorary Treasurer’s Report, Presentation of Certificates, Amendments to By-Laws, President’s Report, Honorary Secretary 1975-1976, Election of Council for 1975, Other Business, Final Examination, Stage C, Free Architectural Service, Temporary Entry Regulations, Flow of Work, Seat on UIA Council, Dates of Meetings, 1975, Senate Bye-Election, Short Course at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, York, Offshore Oil and Gas, Planning Lectures, Scandinavian Summer Seminars, Housing Community, Manila, Subscription of Members, Architectural Award, New Booklet, Exhibition of Drawings, Visit to Edinburgh
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UTOPIA 7

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

UTOPIA 7 is a published a study of utopian settlements in Ireland by students in the Dublin School of Architecture.

Letterfrack, Clara, Gracehill, Sion Mills, Ballitore, Bessbrook, Portlaw, utopian religious communities, utopian village, Quakers, Moravian, Shakers, Fulneck, Fairfield, religion, religious, settlements, Christian, Herrnhut, Quaker village, Abraham Shackleton, Mary Leadbeater, French Revolution, Enlightenment, activisit utopia, Kildare, The Religious Society of Friends, market building, tannery, meeting house, school, Antrim, Herrnhaag, square, church, gendered divide, boarding school, weaving factory, town planning, Clara, Offaly, cooperative living, utopian archetype, strata, stratification, planned town, Charlestown, Clashawaun, mill, Brusna, Stirabout, Inchmore, Drayton Villa, Ballycumber, Erry Mill, Street Mill, Jute factory, Malcolmson Industry, John Skipton Mulvany, industrial town, Waterford, workers’ cottages, `workers’ houses, bowstring truss, Bessbrook, Armagh, Blarney, Cork, Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Herne, Germany, Gelsenkirchen, Clonmel, Tipperary, Carrick-on-Suir, John Grubb Richardson, Derramore, Model Village, utopian industrialism, George Cadbury, Bournville, Titus Salt, Saltaire, Lever, Port Sunlight, Rowntree, New Earswick, Sion Mills, Presbyterian, Tyrone, Herdman bothers, Great Famine, mill, New Lanark, Scotland, Utopian Socialism, Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon, Activist Utopia, New Harmony, Galway, James Ellis, Mary Ellis, Connemara, Irish Famine, Quaker Central Relief Committee, workhouse, Famine workhouse, John Woolman, Quaker, Churchtown, Dublin, Edenderry, settlement, Cloughjordan, Ballitore, Eco village, Mountmellick, Rev. Nangle’s Protestant Missionary Settlement at Achill Island
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RIAI Bulletin 16

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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Architectural Survey 1972

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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Architecture Ireland 297

Editor: Sandra O'Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #297 focuses on the theme 'housing innovation'.

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Architecture Ireland 296

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #296 focuses on the theme 'architecture in practice'.

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RIAI Bulletin 23

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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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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The Sprawling Newspaper

Editors: Michelle Delea, Sarah Mulrooney, Niamh Hurley, Anastasiya Karabanava, Darren O’Connor, Grace Kiernan.
Book
€ 0.00 

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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DSA 2020

Editors: Stephen Allen, Mark Chester, Romy Marren, Lasairíona Power.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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The Square Kilometre: Naked House Naked City

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Greg Keeffe, Rebecca Jane McConnell.
Book
€ 0.00 

This publication seeks to explore some of the hidden architectures that influence and condition life in the city on a daily basis, beginning within the servicing of the house and expanding over a square kilometre of city fabric.

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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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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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20 Irish Buildings You Should Know

Editors: Róisín Bean, Tim Connell, Brian Gargan, Paul Kelly, Adam McLoughlin, Jack Prendergast.
Book
€ 0.00 

Twenty twentieth-century Irish buildings that students of architecture should know, as chosen by TU Dublin fourth-year architecture students.

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