Titanic project ‘ready for 2012’
“Every effort is being made” to ensure that Belfast’s £97m Titanic signature building will be ready for the 2012 centenary,
How Trinity College’s Berkeley Library launched Niall McLaughlin’s career
Berkeley Library was very influential on me becoming an architect. It was the first time I felt architecture could speak to me.
Keeping up appearances
Everyone agrees that Ireland extended itself this last decade, and it all started with our homes.
Time for visionary planning
Ireland has built more over the past decade than at any time in its history (at least until the property bubble finally burst) –
High-rise proposals to be released this month
The new Dublin City Development Plan, with proposals for new standards for building heights in the city,
Dublin councillors approve high-rise policy
Dublin City Councillors have voted to recommend a high-rise policy for the city’s new development plan which would allow future developments in excess of 16 stories in three city centre locations at Heuston and Connolly railway stations and in the Docklands.
Carton House expansion plan rejected
An Bord Pleanála has overturned the decision of Meath County Council to allow the construction of a business and technology park in the grounds of Carton House,
Brian O’Connell Associates becomes O’Connell Mahon Architects
As part of the natural evolution of the practice and to reflect the working relationship between Brian O’Connell Founding Director and Sean Mahon Managing Director,
From Alcan to the Pope, designs were their game
When Pope John Paul II celebrated open-air Mass at LeBreton Flats in 1984 before 400,000 people,
Architects drawing up their own design for life
The implosion of the housing market could perhaps have signalled a death knell for many architecture firms.
