Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #321 focuses on the theme of ‘wood’.

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Contents

Platform

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MATTERS

A role for bio-based materials in climate change mitigation?

Jim Hart and Francesco Pomponi

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Developments in engineered wood

Paving the way for low-carbon construction

Annette M. Harte and Conan O’Ceallaigh

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Timber in Irish construction

Challenges, opportunities, and future needs

Pat Barry MRIAI

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Design for adaptability, disassembly, and re-use of timber-frame construction

St. John Walsh MRIAI

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An atypical prototype

Designing the Rehan Houtbundel Fabriek

Mike Haslam MRIAI

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From digital processes to an architectural language

Designing with mass timber

Merritt Bucholz MRIAI and Karen McEvoy MRIAI

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WORKS

Central Quad, TU Dublin

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Review by Liam Tuite FRIAI

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Le Chéile Education Centre

TAKA Architects

Review by Kate Griffin MRIAI

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V-face Restaurant

tún – architecture + design

Review by Aoife Grogan MRIAI

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House for a Gardener

LiD Architecture

Review by Micah Jones MRIAI

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CURRENTS

News

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Product news

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From policy to culture

An interview with RIAI President Charlotte Sheridan

Michael K. Hayes MRIAI

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PRACTISES

Who plans the city? Reflections on an urban planning seminar hosted at TEST SITE

Ailbhe Cunningham MRIAI

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Apartments, design, and operating costs

David Rouse

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Detail

V&A East

O’Donnell + Tuomey

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A shared foundation

Introducing architecture and planning at secondary school

Garry Miley MRIAI

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Building performance

Societal drive, programme, and symposium

Joseph Little MRIAI and Patrick Daly

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Construction ADR

An evolving landscape?

Peter O’Malley MRIAI

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Things that are outside of your control

An interview with Emma Geoghegan MRIAI on her first five years in practice

Eimear Arthur MRIAI

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REMARKS

States of Entanglement

ANNEX

Review by John McLaughlin MRIAI

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Malton’s Views of Dublin

Various authors

Review by Úna Ní Mhearáin FRIAI

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Louis Kahn: The Importance of Drawing

Michael Merrill (ed.)

Review by Mark Price MRIAI

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The Dignity of Everyday Life

Eoin Ó Broin and Mal McCann

Review by Cormac Murray MRIAI

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Liberty Hall

Michael O‘Loughlin

Review by Anna Ryan Moloney

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Cloud Studies

Forensic Architecture

Review by Timothy Stott

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Staircases and people

A narrative to building

Dominic Stevens MRIAI

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From mortar and glass

John Patrick McHugh

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Colophon