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Major works to visit include the Co-living Development, Dun Laoghaire by HKR Architects. The property is the first purpose designed co-living development in Ireland, delivered for Niche Living.
Located on Eblana Avenue it has 204 fully-serviced studios benefitting from a broad range of on-site facilities. It helps create a new community in the established town centre.
Also worth noting is Wilton Park is by international design practice Hassell, alongside fellow international design and placemaking firms, PRD and Gehl. It is for Ireland’s leading property company IPUT to lead ground-breaking five-year research study ‘Making Impact’.
Finally, take a look at The landmark EXO building by Shay Cleary Architects. It is the tallest commercial office building in Ireland.
This unique engineering project features a distinctive and innovative external exo-skeleton which forms the main structure. It forms a predominantly column free floor plate and referencing the iconic blue gantries of the docklands.
Design: ODOS Architects
This design of a new family home, located on a tight site off a narrow laneway in Dublin City Centre, responds to its restricted context by creating a central courtyard to maximise natural light and spatial quality.
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Dublin T2 Airport, Ireland building design by Pascall + Watson Architects with Arup and Mace – €395million T2 to handle 15 million passengers per year
The thriving campus of Google Ireland by architects Evolution Design consist of four buildings located in the heart of Dublin’s historic docklands district, with over 47,000 sqm of unique office space.
Design: Aughey O’Flaherty Architects. RIBA National Award Winner 2013: the site is located in a residential area in south county Dublin with the new house replacing a 1970s bungalow which existed on the site previously.
Design: FKL Architects
Analysis of the site suggested a continuation of a linear organisation along the new street edge, extending the strategy established by the Ballymun master plan.
The concept resolved into a formal proposition that twists and bends in response to various site conditions and brief requirements, to provide a coherent and integrated response which embeds itself into the existing and emerging context.
Design: Mary Laheen Architects. The new extension is located at the street edge of the site on a busy road leading from the city centre to the west. The limited site necessitated a three- or four-storey building located towards the edge of the existing playground and therefore the provision of play space at roof level.
Design: Paul Keogh Architects
Commissioned by Dublin City Council to replace a number of derelict 1960s flat blocks with a mixed tenure social housing development comprising apartments, houses and own door duplexes. This project redefines the neglected streetscape and creates a new shared and secure garden for the residents and their children.
DoCoMoMo Ireland presents Central Bank in the 21st Century: an open design competition to develop ideas for what the building might become. The architectural ideas competition seeks to generate discussion among designers and decision-makers about the future of the Central Bank building.
The library was built in the 1980’s and served the community well over the past decades. However the library became outdated, in need of upgrading and became too small to deal with the collection of resources available to the community for reference or borrowing.
Orangerie House, Monkstown residence, Dublin design by Architecture Republic – County Dublin house extension, Ireland building inspired by orangeries. Greenhouses for growing fruit which were popular additions to Victorian houses.
South Dublin County Council undertook to refurbish and extend the library in Ballyroan in 2006. Part of the brief involved refurbishing the community centre and provision of additional pastoral facilities; however it became evident early on that a separate building was required for this element.
UCD Student Centre is the new epicentre of sporting, social and academic life in UCD. The project occupies a unique position in the history of the Belfield campus, as both the largest single project since the original masterplan, and the first to be funded entirely by its students
The Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) is delighted to announce highlights of Open House Dublin 2012. Over one weekend, almost 100 buildings of all types and periods will open up their doors to allow citizens and visitors explore the architecture of their city.
The client, John Graham, an artist based in Dublin, required a new studio space at the end of his garden. Due to the format of his work he needed to be able to lay it out and observe from a height. This was the premise from which the design emerged
Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin – design by McCullough Mulvin, Architects – new Humanities Research Building: a slim rectangular building, four stories high with higher rooflights penetrating the volume with shafts of light creating zones and double-heights for work and research.
Dublin Dental Hospital, Ireland: Irish healthcare building design by McCullough Mulvin Architects – Trinity College, architecture photos, news
3XN is one of two finalists in the prestigious competition to design Dublin’s new National Concert Hall. The competition was initiated in 2008 and the shortlist of renowned architects was soon narrowed down to two competing teams lead by Danish Architects; 3XN and Henning Larsen Architects.
The refurbishment and extension of this semi-detached suburban family home creates a continuous, kinked living space at ground floor terminating in a new garden room.
Within this suburban end of terrace double-breasted period house the rear return is remodeled and a new external pavilion designed to provide contemporary garden focused living spaces.
