Minister Finneran presents medal at Housing Conference The Minister for Housing and Local Services, Urban Renewal and Developing Areas, Mr Michael Finneran TD presented the RIAI Silver Medal for Housing to O'Mahony Pike Architects at the National Housing Conference in Sligo on Monday 27th April. The project for which the medal was presented was the mixed use development at Hanover Quay/Sir ...

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Images of Limerick as seen through the eyes of its youngest citizens will be displayed in a novel way through a unique exhibition. More than 400 entries from primary schoolchildren across the city have taken part in the photographic exhibition 'The Limerick I Love'. The exhibition is being run by the Limerick Co-Ordination Office which promotes a positive image of the city. Children w ...

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The Irish Architecture Foundation are delighted to announce that we have moved to a new office on Merrion Square! Our new address: Irish Architecture Foundation 8 Merrion Square Dublin 2 Tel:  +353 1 6768863/4 Fax: +353 1 6768870 E-mail: info@architecturefoundation.ie ...

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MINISTER TO LAUNCH ‘THE LIVES OF SPACES’ TOUR IN FARMLEIGH HOUSE IN MAY The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Martin Cullen TD will open  ‘The Lives of Spaces’ in the OPW’s Farmleigh Gallery in Dublin – Ireland’s exhibition at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 2008. The biennale is the largest exhibition platform for architecture in the wor ...

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Following requests from interested parties, the Docklands Authority has extended the date for submissions, comments and questions on the Draft Poolbeg Planning Scheme to 4pm on Friday 8 May. Vision The overall vision for Poolbeg is: "To create an urban waterside quarter that facilitates sustainable and consolidated growth of Dublin City and articulates a new relationship between the city ...

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The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, has today (Tuesday, 7th April) presented the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland's (RIAI) Gold Medal to the architectural practice Gilroy McMahon. The project for which the medal was presented was Croke Park Stadium. The Gold Medal, awarded since 1934, is the highest honour in Irish architecture given to a building of exceptional merit. The ...

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dezeen.com - design magazine features house designed by Irish firm FKL Architects A-house This mews house addresses environmental concerns at a fundamental level. A GGBS concrete tube, stepped between ground and first floor and divided by joinery elements, provides the structural and spatial organization which allows a simultaneous experience of all dimensions of the house, length and br ...

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World Architecture Festival 2009 focuses on architecture in the new world economy - The world’s biggest architectural summit, the World Architecture Festival, will take place in Barcelona for the second year running, with new opportunities for the industry to showcase its work as part of the word’s biggest architectural Awards programme. Programme Director Paul Finch confirmed that f ...

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The annual "AAI AWARDS for Excellence in Architectural Design" exhibition opened on Friday 3rd April at the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. The AAI Awards 2009 are documented in book form as the 24th volume of best-selling "NEW IRISH ARCHITECTURE" series from Gandon Editions. This full-colour 272-page book is on sale through bookshops nationwide, price E25 euros. ...

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“Architecture is a fiction”, states Aaron Betsky in the first edition of Beyond that will appear this month. Beyond I is the first bookazine packed with short stories on architecture. Beyond will be published twice a year. The first issue, entitled ‘Scenarios and Speculations,’ contains the story ‘White Fungus’ by the science fiction writer Bruce Sterling, the comic ‘Re:doing Dub ...

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