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A space for public opinion and debate, engaging with a broad range of contributors in architecture, landscape, urban design, planning, and beyond.

Toddlers and the city

Navigating urban spaces with a toddler can be daunting, with trip hazards and traffic issues. Dublin City Council's new Urban95 Pilot Project engaged artists and children to ask how the city can open up to the needs of children and the people who care for them.

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One Good Idea

Angst: Longford’s urban iconography

In this article Luke Reilly examines Longford, his home town, noting that its character is indebted to the uncertainty it feels towards its own identity. Through providing a rich personal take on the town's history, Reilly offers a series of generous assumptions, aiming to portray that within these moments that are hardly working, there are opportunities for the town to hardly have to work at all.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

Claiming urban design as landscape architecture

The practice of landscape architecture is well-equipped to respond to the challenges of climate adaptation, yet its role in the design of Ireland's cities, towns and public spaces remains underutilised in Ireland. Rather than professionally sealed silos, Irish urbanism would benefit much more from integrating landscape architecture into how we can understand and reimagine the future of our built environment.

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Open Space

Dublin city: reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated

Dublin city is messy and challenging, however accounts of its economic decline and its surges in crime are not always reflected in reality. This article argues that braver interventions in traffic planning and management could benefit the city’s economy, environment, safety, and community.

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Future Reference
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RIAI Bulletin 30

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.

Delaney Mac Veigh & Pike, Comment, RIAI Report, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, European Congress of Salaried Architects, Letter, Liaison Committee Publication, Irish Concrete Society Awards 1981, Major Solar Conference, Irish Concrete Society Award for Roecrete, Council for 1981, Committees and Representation, Professional Conduct Committee, Accreditation Board, Fellowship Jury, Technicians Committee, Representatives on Outside Bodies, Northern Report, Southern Report, Pre-Budget Submission, Institute of Clerks of Work in Ireland, Council, Planning Conditions, Annual Dinner, Material availability, UIA news, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, UIA, AAI, Architectural Association of Ireland,
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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'.

environment, conservation, bio, eco materials, environmentally friendly, clt, cross-laminated timber, wood, timber, construction, studio, unviersity, TUD, school, residential, commercial, detail, London, Victoria & Albert, Museum, book, review,
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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 6

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.

RIAI Conference, Structural Engineers, Low Cost Churches, Planning Appeals, How Not to, The Irish Concrete Society, Technicians’ Exhibition, No Architect!, Home Extension – Dublin 4, Peter and Mary Doyle, UIA In Mexico, Agricultural Credit Corporation, Michael Kearns, Pieterse Davison International, Merry Nisbet and Partners, Fairhurst Garland and Partners, Varming Mulcahy Reilly Associates
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RIAI Bulletin 7

Editor: Peter Ferguson.
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.

Ordinary General Meeting, OGM of the RIAI, President’s Report, Honorary Treasurer’s Statement, Presentation of Certificates, Revision of By-Laws, Adoption of new entry forms, President’s inaugural address, Annual Report of Council, Ideas Competition, Hospital Building Programme, Annual Conference, Election of Vice President, Technician Representative on Council, Commonwealth Board of Architectural Education, Housing Conference, Housing Competition, Hospital Programme in the Dublin Area, Maintenance of Historic Buildings, EEC Affairs, Coras Trachtala Design Scholarship, International Symposium, International Ideas Competition, ISAGA Conference, READAPT, Council for 1974, Nelson’s Pillar, 8 Merrion Square, International Union of Architects, National Economic and Social Council, European Architectural Heritage Year, CAA Ottawa Conference, CAA Board of Architectural Education, Brussels Meeting, EEC Liaison Committee, Scrutioneer’s Report, Accreditation Board, Institute Dinner-Dance, parking policy, chief fire officer, Georgian Society Records, EEC Booklet, Europe in the 1980s, Seminar on Electrical Installations, Management and Business Studies, UIA Seminar, Employees Pension Fund, Seminar on Architecture, Urban and Regional Research, Design of Nursery School Buildings, Aspects of Architectural Research, Arbitration Seminar, Design Economics, Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, AGM, minutes, meeting minutes, exhibition, competition, symposium, materials, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, CAA, members, Election, report, EEC, housing
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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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living in town ... conserving the future

Book
€ 7.95 

A pamphlet documenting the papers presented at the National Housing Conference held at Leopardstown, Co. Dublin, in October 1974.

Housing Committee, housing, community development, urban problems, urban issues, London, Glasgow, housing action, deprived, deprived communities, University of Durham, Department of Sociology and Social Administration, social security, EEC, EU, second-hand housing, shared dwelling, US National Commission for Urban Problems, home ownership, psychiatry, UCD, University College Dublin, The Dilemma of the Human Family, A Cycle of Growth and Decline, society, institutionalisation, corporate institution, Bethlehem Foundation, Dublin Diocesan Housing Agency, Housing Department, Dublin Corporation, Catholic Housing Aid Society, Family Housing Association, British Housing Association, housing advice centres, voluntary housing, landlord, tenant, tenure, housing pressure, central heating, voluntary housing movement, Bishop Casey, 1974 Housing Act, Clonliffe, Housing Co-ordinator, Dublin City and County, Dun Laoghaire, Assistant City Manager, Dun Laoghaire Corporation, Planning, redevelopment, historical, Compulsory Purchase, Housing Acts, Public Sworn Inquiry, CPO, public authority, placement, clearance, chairman of the housing committee, demolition, Royal Institute of Architects, Irish Builder and Engineer, Sean O’Casey, Housing grants section, Civil service, Building Societies, Planning Act, Bord Failte, Bord’s Tidy Town Competition, Building Science and Technology, Institute for Industrial Research and Standards, Irish housing, AFF, IIRS, NBA, central heating, National Energy Policy, UCG, NUIG, Sitting, Shape, Orientation, Fabric, Fenestration, Ventilation, Heating Installation, Pentagram, Industrial Designers, International Union of Architects, Congress, British Pavilion, Architecture: City Sense, The Necessary Movement, Arts Council, living in cities, Department of Environment, Shelter Neighbourhood Action Project, SNAP, Master plan, Craigavon, Craigavon Development Commission, Liverpool, General Development Area Proposals, enclave, national building agency, cost implications, design standards, performance standards, Essex Design Guide, Royal Town Planning Institute, AAI, Architectural Association of Ireland, Kildare Archaeological Society, accidental black spot, Ministry of Works, An Taisce, Patrick Shaffrey, Strathclyde, Gillespie Kidd and Coia, RIBA, Functional Order, Order of Significant Movement, Visual Order, Victorian City, Department of Architecture and Civic Design, Greater London Council, LCC, rehabilitation, syndicate discussion, economic and social costs of housing, the health aspects of town living, the problems of redevelopment, the voluntary housing movement in England and Suggestions for its Establishment here, Financial Structure, Grants and Subsidies, the implication of recent development on the design and construction of the individual housing unit, ESB, local authority housing, Ballymun, Dr. Browne, Des McConaghy, housing finance,
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RIAI Bulletin 16

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 322

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #322 focuses on the theme of ‘density’.

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RIAI Bulletin 30

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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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 in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 8

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 59

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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LINE 01

Editors: Caoimhe Power, Gabriella Brady, Helen McFadden, Lauren Forde.
Book
€ 0.00 

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

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Free Market News

Editors: Jeffrey Bolhuis, Jo Anne Butler, Miriam Delaney, Tara Kennedy, Laurence Lord, Orla Murphy.
Book
€ 0.00 

Free Market News is a study of market towns in Ireland, featuring a collection of essays from a broad range of experts on the past, present, and future of these small-scale settlements. The book was published as part of Free Market, the Irish Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2018.

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living in town ... conserving the future

Book
€ 7.95 

A pamphlet documenting the papers presented at the National Housing Conference held at Leopardstown, Co. Dublin, in October 1974.

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20 Irish Buildings You Should Know

Editors: Róisín Bean, Tim Connell, Brian Gargan, Paul Kelly, Adam McLoughlin, Jack Prendergast.
Book
€ 0.00 

Twenty twentieth-century Irish buildings that students of architecture should know, as chosen by TU Dublin fourth-year architecture students.

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The Bicycle: A study of efficiency, usage, and safety

Author: Dr. D. F. Moore.
Book
€ 7.95 

Financed by Irish Raleigh Ltd., this report is a general study of the efficiency, usage, and safety of the bicycle as a mode transport. As well as bicycle safety, this study considers housing estate layout in suburban areas and how it can minimise the adverse impact of motorised traffic on urban neighbourhoods.

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UTOPIA 7

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

UTOPIA 7 is a published a study of utopian settlements in Ireland by students in the Dublin School of Architecture.

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