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Find out more abut the Clare County Library & Art Gallery by Keith Williams Architects. Construction has restarted on this structure in Ennis, Co Clare, in the mid-west of the country.
Construction progress was stalled for many months following the collapse of the main contractor LM Keating. The development is once again underway with new contractor Coolsivna from Co. Galway appointed following a public re-tender.
Finally check out The Butler Gallery in County Kilkenny, province of Leinster, by Dublin-based practice McCullough Mulvin Architects. Refurbishment and conservation works transform an historic former almshouse and garden in the South-East of the country.
Adamstown Central, the new town centre development vision led by UK architects Metropolitan Workshop, has secured planning. It is part of the larger Adamstown development, 16 kilometres west of Dublin, billed as Ireland’s first 21st Century New Town.
The nature of the work was to establish the relationship between differing programmatic requirements a juice & coffee shop at ground floor level, a roof terrace & bar an existing nightclub on the rear upper level.
This project involves the construction of a new two storey addition to the rear of a large three storey semi-detached bricked fronted Victorian house in the south of Dublin.
The function of bridges extends beyond mere utility, and they have an inherent significance and symbolism as connectors and conduits, gateways and meeting places, landmarks and icons.
Kildare County Council Offices. This project is formed around the public space of the people, the civic garden. A slowly inclined ground plane gradually ascends from the street creating a civic amphitheatre for Naas.
Galway City Council has given the go ahead for the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway’s new ¤60 million (£40.2 million) engineering school – the University’s largest capital development project to date.
Mixed-use development: 90-bed three star hotel with a large function suite, restaurant, bar & fitness club ; 35-bed four-star hotel suites ; 69 dwellings above street-level retail; crèche, kindergarten.
This building’s geometries arise out of its very particular location – crouched like a cat at the medieval gate of Thurles and stretched around a bend in the river Suir. A singular folded roof encloses very different volumes, rising and falling like a small mountain range from a strong base – the boardwalk extended over the river.
Galley Head Lighthouse is one of a chain of beacons built to protect shipping along the rock-bound, stormy Atlantic coast of Ireland. Its name belongs with Fastnet and Mizen Head, among the litany of famous storms and wrecks synonymous with this coastline.