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The impact of AI on the basic planning application

Artificial Intelligence is set to transform the planning processes. This article explores how emerging AI tools can streamline approvals, improve consistency, and reshape diverse planning systems, offering both technical potential and social challenges for design and planning practices in Ireland and internationally.

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Open Space

From colonial remnants to community spaces

Ireland’s towns and villages reflect a rich but complex architectural legacy shaped by colonial history, post-independence ambivalence, and modern neglect. This articles argues for a socially engaged approach to heritage – one that embraces ethical remembrance and reclaims built environments as living spaces central to community, identity, and sustainable development.

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Open Space

The housing market: an unnatural disaster?

While issues of climate change, disease, or even conflict may be explained away by sceptics as natural phenomena, the global shortage of accommodation can only ever be man-made. This article considers the contemporary discourse around housing in Ireland, calling attention to inherent contradictions both in our diagnosis of the problem and in our prescribed treatments.

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Future Reference

A collision in the field of architecture

In this article Kristyna Korcakova discusses the preparation education provides architectural graduates, and explores whether this is the most accurate preparation for architecture in practice.

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Present Tense
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Architectural Survey 1967

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.

Under construction, leisure, clubhouse, health, residential, social housing, showroom, Opera House, church, ecclesiastical, religious, hotel, hospitality, pavilion, factory, estate, sculpture, pitch, apartment, TCD, Trinity College Dublin, pub, bar, renovation, refurbishment, aerial photography, photography
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RIAI Bulletin 24

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Review, New Standard Measurement of Method, Irish Architects in Tanzania, Conference 1979, Practice notes, President O’Reilly, Hon. Treasurer, October Council Meeting, Building Materials Supply Position, Architectural Association of Ireland, 8 Merrion Square, ARCSOC, Housing in Dublin’s Inner City, Deirdre O’Connor, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, standards
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2ha: the journal of suburban design #16

Editors: Michael K. Hayes, Alan Mee.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #16 considers the edge city: collating existing analysis, offering new methods and insights, as well as proposing alternative visions of future transformation.

urban design, UCD studio, suburbanisation, edge city, defining, locating, designing, metropolitan design, block design, inclusive walkability, industrial intensification, keeping above water, uncovering connectivity, city edge, Ballymount, Naas Road, SDCC, South Dublin County Council, Greenhills, Sandyford, Leopardstown, Tallaght, Dublin City, Ranelagh, Blackrock, Dún Laoghaire, Broombridge, boundary, NACE, sururban employment clusters, density, morphology, scale
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Post Industrial

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

Post Industrial features a series of essays discussing the physical and material world of Irish industrial settlements; how these villages as worked a social spaces, while at the same time highlighting future conservation priorities.

Industrialisation, Great Famine, Act of Union, settlements, model villages, Mountrath, Laois, Society of Friends, Charles Henry Coote, Statistical Survey of Laois 1800, industry, brewery, pottery, woollen mills, cotton, Kilkenny, village, Earl of Ormond, crossroad plan, linear town, town square, High Street, triangular centre, village morphology, Louisburgh, Mayo, Dunmanway, Cork, Maynooth, Kildare, Tallow, Waterford, Belmullet, Johnstown, Ballyragget, Geashill, Offaly, Castleblayney, Monaghan, Eyrecourt, Rathdowney, Galway, Lurgan, Armagh, Monivea, New Birmingham, Athenry, Slieveardagh Hills, Glengoole, Robert Ffrench, Kilcooley, Utopian Socialism, Stratford, Slaney, town planning, crescent form, Abbeyleix, Laois, Hillsborough, Down, Tyrrellspass, Meath, Mountbellew, Galway, Johnstown, Kilkenny, Slane, Westport, Ballyhaise, Cavan, Castlewellan, Down, piers, quays, Roundstone, Binghamstown, Killala, Achill, Knightstown, Kerry, Carrigaholt, Cork, Balinskelligs, Ballyvaughan, Liscannor, Rossaveel, Old Head, Inishturk, Raughly, Brandon, Spiddal, Barna, Seafield, Kilbaha, Dingle, Cahersiveen, Doonbeg, Cleggan, Clifden, New Quay
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Architecture Ireland 320

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #320 focuses on the theme of 'education + practice'.

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RIAI Bulletin 41

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, Review, Development Control, Rapid Rail Project, Richview Open Day, Neoprene, Oireachtas Committee on Building Land, Council, Letter, Joint Committee on Building Land, Leinster House, Residential Roads, The National Monuments Advisory Council, Northern Report, Mayo Report, RHA Exhibition, SDI Student Event, The Conservation of Historic Structures, Fairview - A Rapid Rail Maintenance Facility, Signal Relay Room to Central Train Control Building - Connolly Station, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, SDI, Society of Designers in Ireland, train, rail, station, Connolly Station, UCD, University College Dublin
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Architecture Ireland 300

Editor: Sandra O’Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #300 focuses on the theme of ‘FREESPACE, La Biennale di Venezia'.

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Architecture Ireland 321

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #321 focuses on the theme of 'wood'.

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Architecture Ireland 309

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #310 focuses on the theme of ‘obsolescence’.

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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 2

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

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RIAI Bulletin 57

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

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Architecture Ireland 297

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #297 focuses on the theme 'housing innovation'.

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Department of Architecture and Town Planning, DIT Bolton Street, 1992-1994

Editors: Edmund O’Shea, Noel Jonathan, James Horan.
Book
€ 0.00 

The first publication by the Department of Architecture and Town Planning at DIT Bolton Street celebrates the work of both staff and students during the academic years 1992/93 and 1993/94.

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Accuracy and Dimensional Control in Building

Author: Nicholas M. Ryan.
Book
€ 7.95 

This paper explains the nature of dimensional deviation in prefabricated elements and that the development of designs should include a clear approach to accommodate or control deviations when they do occur.

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streets for living: a conference on residential road design

Editor: Eoghan Brangan.
Book
€ 7.95 

Organised by an Foras Forbartha, this paper documents the proceedings of a conference on residential road design from Jury’s Hotel in Dublin in May 1976.

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Dublin School of Architecture Yearbook 2016

Editors: Philip Duffy, Anne-Lise Olivier, Julia Vivien Rober, Colin Mac Suibhne, Stephen Johnston.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.

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Observation Study of Housing Estate Elements

Authors: R. Mulvihill, E. Burke, N. Byrne.
Book
€ 7.95 

This paper reports on a study investigating aspects of housing estates related to the pedestrian precinct or residential yard concept.

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Regional Planning: a review of regional studies

Author: Henk van der Kamp.
Book
€ 7.95 

Carried out by An Foras Forbartha, this study was conducted to develop linkages between local, regional, and national planning in Ireland.

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