Swedish architects JM - Konrad Milton and Carl Jägnefält have won the Centre Pier, Galway Harbour Ideas Competition with their entry entitled ‘The Sky Pier - Unity in Duality' coming out on top of a field of 117 entries. The announcement of the winners of the competition marks the beginning of the inaugural Open House Galway event which takes place over the weekend of 16th to 18th Oct ...

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Breaking Ground, the per cent for art programme for Ballymun Regeneration Limited was launched in February 2001. To date Breaking Ground has launched some of the most significant, diverse and challenging public art projects in Ireland such as the large-scale temporary project Hotel Ballymun by Seamus Nolan and is widely recognised as the flagship for contemporary public art projects. The tw ...

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The Lives of Spaces, Ireland's exhibition at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008, will open at the School of Art in Limerick Institute of Technology on Monday 2nd November. The Lives of Spaces contains 9 film based projects in total. Each explores the central role of space in our society, how it frames and structures the patterns and practices of our collective life, from ...

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Mr. John Gormley, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has published the Government Policy on Architecture 2009-2015 Towards a Sustainable Future: Delivering Quality within the Built Environment. At an event to launch the Policy in the Custom House, the Minister outlined his belief that the new Policy on Architecture 2009-2015 “provides a dynamic framework for th ...

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Applications are now being invited for the role of Curator of Ireland's entry in the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010. The Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) has been appointed by Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council to act as the Commissioner for Ireland's national representation at the Venice Biennale in September 2010. Working with Culture Ireland and the A ...

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The launch of the newly-designed Building Material 19 (Art & Architecture), the journal of the Architectural Association of Ireland will take place at The LAB, Foley Street, on Wednesday 21st October 2009. The launch, in conjunction with Dublin City Council and hosted by Ali Grehan, City Architect, will take place from 6pm. Preceding this there will be presentations by artists Denni ...

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Many architects have lost their jobs in this recession. Those involved in now what? decided collectively to use this time to research, construct and innovate. now what ? was a voluntary initiative run by architects over the summer of 2009. Staff at the School of Architecture at Richview, University College Dublin conceived and supported the initiative by providing studio space, library and bu ...

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