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There are 85 County Kildare churches listed and illustrated in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Not all are small, RC, of stone or near Naas. Or even still in use. But you can search by type and town or townland at http://www.buildingsofireland.ie to see if there’s one that might fit the bill.
The Irish Architectural Archive http://www.iarc.ie lists two Patrick Byrnes (Patrick Byrne (c1783-1864) and Patrick James Byrne) in its biographical index. Email them if you can’t visit the Archive at 45 Merrion Square, Dublin. May also be worth a query to the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), founded in 1834 – they have data on past members.
Patrick Byrne is listed in ‘150 Years of Architecture in Ireland: RIAI 1839-1989’ as Vice-President of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland from 1854 until 1864 (the president of the Institute was a member of the aristocracy from the RIAI’s foundation until 1863, so VP was the most senior member of the profession, although for most of Byrne’s period as VP the RIAI was moribund).
Patrick Byrne (who had been a founder of the Society of Irish Artists in 1842) was admitted as an academician of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1860. When he died, aged 81, the RIAI established, unusually, the Byrne Fund “to raise an annuity for the daughter of the late vice-president.” Despite having designed the Franciscan church (Adam and Eve’s) at Merchant’s Quay (1830), St Paul’s, Arran Quay (1837), St Audeon’s High Street (1841) and Our Lady of Refuge, Rathmines (1850), he can’t have died a wealthy man.
Writing about St Audeon’s in ‘Dublin 1660-1860’, Maurice Craig asks: “Who was this Patrick Byrne who so excellently improved this occasion? We know little except that he studied under [Henry Aaron] Baker at the Dublin Society’s School, and designed the Turf Gas Co’s building in Great Brunswick street (Pearse Street), as well as various suburban and country churches, and died in 1864. Byrne is a common name: but it may not be worthless to record that an Edward Byrne, bricklayer, was a subscriber to Aheron’s ‘Architecture’ in 1754, while a John Byrne entered a design for the Royal Exchange competition in 1769. [Note: Since this was written I find that Mr CP Curran devoted an article to Byrne in ‘Studies’, June 1944, where further facts are set out.]”Call for proposals for Europa Nostra Cultural Heritage Awards 2005
The call for proposals and application forms for the Europa Nostra Awards 2005 are available from Europa Nostra’s website. The deadlines are 1 August 2005 and 15 September 2005. Further information:
http://www.europanostra.org/lang_en/0260_activities_new_awards_dossier.htmlWomen’s Centre, Hollmén-Reuter-Sandman
Rufisque, Senegal, 2001
http://www.floornature.com/worldaround/articolo.php/art73/3/enSorry, but nothing in hardcopy was ever published by DDDA or others, apart from a stapled, photocopied text list of the entries by number and name (at the time of the public exhibition in Clarion Quay) and a postcard with an image of the winning, ‘twisting tower’ design. Best print off the pages from this site – there were lots!
No. And why would you want to anyway? It’s hard to share life without words. An example of what I mean is contained in the following discussion – ‘Dublin Conversation’, in which the Italian architects Elena Carlini and Pietro Valle talked to Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey in March 2003 – http://architettura.supereva.it/files/20030320/index_en.htm Enjoy the chat!
There’s an “early 1900s” photo (looking east and taken from an aerial position north-west of the bridge, it predates the construction of what was Parson’s bookshop) in Maurice Gorham’s “Dublin Yesterday” (Batsford, 1986 – originally published in 1972 and reprinted in 1983 as “Dublin from Old Photographs”). Plate 58, it was sourced from the National Library of Ireland, now the National Photographic Archive, and probably came from the Lawrence collection: it may even be the one listed as “missing” in the NPA’s on-line database…
Have you tried the various collections held in the National Photographic Archive? Unfortunately, not all are yet searchable on-line. http://www.nli.ie/a_coll.htm
No need to seek it out, as it’s the venue for the end-of-conference party on Saturday evening! It’s got great scale but fiddly (shoddy) details…
Sorry for causing confusion, aland, by using the project’s Irish form: ODT’s work at Leinster House is actually the final project I listed (Dail Eireann, pronounced something like ‘Doll Air-run’). It’s well worth trying to blag your way in past security or nobble a passing TD who’s got a few minutes to spare. Pretty miniscule compared to EMBT’s Hollyrood, though!
5 that are underappreciated / off the map:
Grand Canal Basin – ESAT by de Blacam & Meagher, glass ‘tower’ by Shay Cleary, and Millennium Tower and new apartments (nearing completion), both by O’Mahony Pike
Clarion Quay in Docklands by Gerry Cahill, McGarry Ni Eanaigh & Derek Tynan
Marrowbone Lane – community centre by Henchion Reuter and Foyer by Brady Mallalieu, within 200 yards of each other
Calatrava’s Liffey bridge at Usher’s Island
Balgaddy A housing scheme in Clondalkin by Howley Harrington5 classics (outwith the Canals):
Sir Edwin Lutyens’s War Memorial, Islandbridge (1930s)
John Johansen’s American Embassy, Ballsbridge (1960s)
Sam Stephenson’s Institute for Advanced Studies, Burlington Road (1970s)
Arthur Gibney’s Irish Management Institute, Sandyford (1970s)
Ronnie Tallon’s RTE’s campus, Donnybrook (the same architect since 1960)2 ‘secret treasures’ to complete a worthy dozen:
de Blacam & Meagher’s ‘handed’ recreation of Loos’s American Bar (Vienna) on the first floor of Trinity’s Dining Hall (you must be invited by a Fellow of the College) (1987)
O’Donnell + Tuomey’s press room / reception centre, tucked away in the north-west corner of Dail Eireann, Kildare Street (you normally must be invited by a TD (Irish MP) to get in) (2002)Don’t know about the one across the road or the first one (which looks like it got a serious Po-Mo going over 10 or 15 years ago) but the other two are identified (pic and names, etc) in A Guide to Modern Architecture in Dublin by Tomas O’Beirne (1978).
The red-brick is Carrick House by Stephenson Gibney and Associates (1972) for Baggotrath Investments. The originally open undercroft at ground floor level was filled in at a later date.
The third building is described as “office building at no. 2 Burlington Road,” designed by Tyndall Hogan Hurley (1969) for Hardwicke Ltd. O’Beirne’s book shows that the original window bands were fully glazed, with 5 panels of clear glass; now there’s this ill-judged combination of tinted (?) glass and solid panels – the narrow ones reducing cold bridging at the concrete columns. The crass white band at the top is also ‘new’. [A similar 1970 scheme by the same architects for the same clients at no. 8 Burlington Road – also featured by O’Beirne – appears to have been elegantly detailed, in a pre-oil-crisis sort of way.]
The Architecture of Deane & Woodward by Frederick O’Dwyer (Cork University Press, 1997 – 650 pages) is the key work. For example, it proves that the oft-quoted assertion that the Oxford Museum commission was awarded after Ruskin had visited the Trinity College Museum Building has no factual basis.
From the dust jacket: “Influences on Deane and Woodward are analysed, from those of Pugin and other contemporaries in the early days, to John Ruskin, whose precepts are reflected in their mature work, notably the Museum Building at Trinity College, Dublin (1852-57), the Kildare Street Club (1858-61), the Oxford Museum [their most important work, 1854-60] and the Crown Life Office in Blackfriars (1856-58). The role of Ruskin, the O’Shea family of stone carvers and the Pre-Raphaelites in Deane and Woodward’s architecture is reassessed in the light of new material.”
An award like this already exists in America, run by the AIA. Called the Twenty-five Year Award, it is open to buildings in any country that were designed by an architect licensed in the US and completed 25 to 35 years ago. The impressive list of previous winners:
1969 Rockefeller Center, New York City, Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray
1971 The Crow Island School, Winnetka, Ill., Perkins, Wheeler & Will; Eliel & Eero Saarinen
1972 Baldwin Hills Village, Los Angeles, Reginald D. Johnson; Wilson, Merrill & Alexander; Clarence S. Stein
1973 Taliesin West, Paradise Valley, Ariz., Frank Lloyd Wright
1974 Johnson and Son Administration Building, Racine, Wis., Frank Lloyd Wright
1975 Philip Johnson’s Residence, (“The Glass House”), New Caanan, Conn., Philip Johnson
1976 860-880 North Lakeshore Drive Apartments, Chicago, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1977 Christ Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Saarinen, Saarinen & Associates; Hills, Gilbertson & Hays
1978 The Eames House, Pacific Palisades, Calif., Charles and Ray Eames
1979 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., Louis I. Kahn, FAIA
1980 Lever House, New York City, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
1981 Farnsworth House, Plano, Ill., Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1982 Equitable Savings and Loan Building, Portland, Ore., Pietro Belluschi, FAIA
1983 Price Tower, Bartlesville, Okla., Frank Lloyd Wright
1984 Seagram Building, New York City, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1985 General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Mich., Eero Saarinen and Associates with Smith, Hinchman & Grylls
1986 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, Frank Lloyd Wright
1987 Bavinger House, Norman, Okla., Bruce Goff
1988 Dulles International Airport Terminal Building, Chantilly, Va., Eero Saarinen and Associates
1989 Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, Pa., Robert Venturi, FAIA
1990 The Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Eero Saarinen and Associates
1991 Sea Ranch Condominium I, The Sea Ranch, Calif., Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker
1992 The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., Louis I. Kahn, FAIA
1993 Deere & Company Administrative Center, Moline, Ill., Eero Saarinen and Associates
1994 The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, Edward Larrabee Barnes
1995 The Ford Foundation Headquarters, New York City, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates
1996 The Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel, Colorado Springs, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
1997 Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, N. H., Louis I. Kahn, FAIA
1998 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Louis I. Kahn, FAIA
1999 The John Hancock Center, Chicago, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
2000 The Smith House, Darien, Conn., Richard Meier & Partners
2001 Weyerhaeuser Headquarters, Federal Way, Wash., Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
2002 Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, Sert Jackson and Associates
2003 Design Research Headquarters Building, Cambridge, Mass., Benjamin Thompson & Associates
2004 East Building of The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., I. M. Pei & Partners.Further info: http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek03/tw0801/0801_25year.htm
http://www.nexusjournal.com/BouMaz.html “The Use of the Golden Section in the Great Mosque of Kairouan [in Tunisia ]” by Algerian architects, Kenza Boussora and Said Mazouz. The first mosque in North Africa, it was founded around the year 670 AD and much altered subsequently. The authors claim: “The geometric technique of construction of the golden section seems to have determined the major decisions of the spatial organisation. The golden section appears repeatedly in some part of the building measurements. It is found in the overall proportion of the plan and in the dimensioning of the prayer space, the court and the minaret.” (Contains diagrammatic illustrations with overlays.)
