Five Irish projects win Civic Trust Awards in UK
Five Irish architectural projects have won Civic Trust awards in Britain.
McCreevy’s plan to decentralise now pointless
Every weekday morning at 8am, a bus leaves from Dublin Castle to bring people who work for the Office of Public Works (OPW) to Trim,
Neglected work merits timely exhibition, says curator
A “treasuretrove” of Irish images by a leading 20th-century photographer is “in danger of being allowed to languish ignored and forgotten”,
Another Belfast is imagined
“˜A city built upon mud; a culture built upon profit” –
Post-Cullen Abbey move on GPO should be scrapped
The first thing Martin Cullen’s successor as minister for the arts must do is review his supposedly bright idea of shovelling the Abbey Theatre into the General Post Office.
€756m medical campus plan awaiting Nama approval
A large-scale plan to develop a medical campus for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) at Belcamp on the northern fringe of Dublin,
Sheila O’Donnell & John Tuomey elected as Honorary Fellows of AIA
Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey, of O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects, have been elected as Honorary Fellows of American Institute of Architects,
Building the future of justice
Very few new buildings have been bathed in such publicity as the Criminal Courts of Justice.
Hotelier’s site permission rejected a third time
An Bord Pleanála has unanimously overruled the local authority and refused permission for an “integrated tourism and leisure development” including golfing facilities at Palmerstown Demesne in Co Kildare.
Libeskind at centre stage
As the opening production at the Grand Canal Square Theatre takes to the stage on St Patrick’s Day,
