CUBE, Centre for the Built Environment has announced its annual open submission competition. Artists, architects and designers are invited to submit work that responds to the theme of the urban built environment.
This year's selectors are Peter Kelly (Editor of Blueprint Magazine, Office for Subversive Architecture and Manchester Modernist Society.
The most outstanding project will be aw ...
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of de Blacam and Meagher is Ireland's exhibition at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition to be held this autumn in Venice. The exhibition will address de Blacam and Meagher Architects' built and unbuilt portfolio of the last 33 years and seeks to communicate the cultural landscape of Ireland through their seminal work.
This year the 12th International Architecture Exhibiti ...
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The National Campaign for the Arts have organised a National Day of Action for Arts and Culture on Friday 17 September 2010, when arts workers in constituencies around the country will be meeting with their local TDs. Amidst a nationwide media campaign, arts workers be discussing with their local representatives to the fundamental importance of the arts to Ireland's economic recovery. You can ...
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UNBUILDING is an experimental visual arts project composed of 11 new commissions, an architectural intervention, screenings, international guests, local discussion and off-site events. The exhibition is essentially a rotating exhibition event, based mainly in a specially designed space - a significant timber structure designed by architects Gráinne Shaffrey and Tomás O Connor, inserted into ...
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As part of Heritage Week, The Irish Landmark Trust's self-catering holiday homes in the Republic of Ireland will be open to the public on Sunday 29th August from 10am - 4pm.
Heritage Day takes place once a year to allow members of the public and the surrounding community to explore the heritage gems that are our properties. Many of these wonderful self catering holiday homes are prominent ...
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Find out what's on every month in our online DIARY: www.architecturefoundation.ie/diary
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The shortlist of nominees for the World Architecture Festival which takes place in Barcelona from 3-5 November 2010 has been announced and includes a number of Irish projects.
Award-winning architects O'Donnell + Tuomey are shortlisted in two categories: in the Civic and community category for An Gaeláras/Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, an Irish language cultural centre in Londonderry (w ...
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Irish-born architect Angela Brady is to become the new president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in September after being elected to the two-year term office. She will be only the second woman President of RIBA, the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession.
Brady is a director of Brady Mallalieu Architects and is also Chair of the Royal Institute of Arch ...
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Ireland's largest architectural event, OPEN HOUSE DUBLIN, presented by the Irish Architecture Foundation, returns from 7 - 10 OCTOBER 2010. With the completion of several large - scale projects in Dublin city, our theme is BIG, SMALL, GLOBAL to mark these new urban landscapes as well as the innovative work of Irish architects across all scales. This is the FIFTH year that Dublin will join ...
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The Arts Council and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government have launched a new scheme with the purpose of engaging the public with architecture. The Engaging with Architecture Scheme was developed as a partnership initiative in response to both the Government Policy on Architecture 2009 - 2015 Towards a Sustainable Future: Delivering Quality within the Built Envi ...
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