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Urban milk

All Dubliners accept that the fair city is inseparable from James Joyce's Ulysses. Yet Joyce's novel is saturated with a hidden ingredient: milk. This industry is an essential part of our national image, but its relationship with the fabric and women of Dublin has been largely forgotten. What if we redrew Joyce’s Dublin through milk?

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One Good Idea

Sleeping giants of straw and reed

Reflecting on her time spent thatching Irish homes, Alice Bowler considers what an endangered craft might teach us about care, materials and building in step with the land.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

Modernism is Almost All Right #7: Après Le Modernisme, Le Déluge? Throughlines in French industrial legacies

Jonathan F. Bell examines the continuities between pre-Modern industrial architecture, Modern contributions to industrial typologies, and current adaptations of these buildings in a postindustrial landscape.

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A recipe for belonging

Chloë King reviews ‘Pálás an Phobail’, an immersive event curated by Blanka Major, a collaboration by Architecture at the Edge in partnership with Hinterland. The event was held as part of Culture Night Late in Galway City on 18th September and featured contributions from Professor Anna Davies of Trinity College Dublin and Michael Higgins, Political Liaison and Systems Change Lead at Bohemians cooperatives.

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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’.

Conceptions of change: An architectural history of obsolescence, Calculating the cost of building: Obsolescence, architecture and the climate crisis, Thinking about the future: Designing buildings for retrofit, Non-linear thinking: Obsolescence within a circular built environment, Expiry date unknown: The precious persistence of Phibsboro Centre, Detail: Bear Market Coffee, DUA, Flexibility and workplace resilience, That moment between the complexities of the past and an unknown future, A return to ‘happy mistakes’: How 3D printing can influence the architectural design process, Housing, Architecture, and the Edge Condition: Dublin is Building, 1935-1975, Housing in Ireland: The A-Z guide, Eutopian Worlds, Tactful Confidence, Keeping Ireland Modern, Architecture as a story-telling art, Early Buildings Conference, Brutal(ist) Nostalgia, Poetic Pragmatism, RIAI Gandon Medal, Learning from Peter Rice: Reflections on a collaborative student project, Measuring embodied carbon: Translating information into action, Between Gandon and Grafton, Premises for Mr R.J Duggan: no.32 Dame Street Dublin, David Adjaye, Ellen Rowley, Traumnouvelle, Lorcan Sirr, Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
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Architecture Ireland 298

Editor: Sandra O'Connell.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #298 focuses on the theme of 'adaptive reuse'.

building review, book review, interview, adaptive reuse, venice biennale
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Architectural Survey 1966

Editor: Patrick M. Delany.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

Church, Bank, Airport, Museum, Flats, Social Housing, Clubhouse, Café, sculpture, furniture, tower block, office block, apartment block, mid-rise, restaurant, hospitality, residential, education, health, university College Dublin, Belfield
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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.

Prefabricated, tolerance, environmental conditions, weatherproof joints, permitted deviation, machine made, plumbness,
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Architectural Survey 1953

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

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

T.P. Kennedy, The contribution of Waterford Ironfounders Ltd to the Irish Housing Drive, Liam McCormick, Dáithí Hanly, Busáras, Hospitals, Sanatorium, Healthcare, Ward, Chapel, Church, School, Primary School, Secondary School, Childcare, Sisters of Charity, Ballyfermot, Rathgar, Ardkeen, Dublin, Cork, Youghal Frankfort, Ballsbridge, Santry, Vocational, Limerick, Stillorgan, Bus depot, Donnybrook, Waterford, Bord na Mona, Dún Laoghaire, Busaras, Blackwood, Co Kildare, Mount Dillon, Roscommon, Lanesborough, Longford, Bracnagh, Offaly, Derraghan, Commerce, Hospitals, Industry, Education, Religion, Dwellings, Sallynoggin, Recreation, Buyers guide, Clogher Road
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RIAI Bulletin 43

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.

Residential Club Hong Kong, Edmund Burke & Partners, Naish O’Dowd, Liam O’Herlihy, Jim Horan, Comment, RIAI Reports, Diary, Cryptoporticus and Partners, Hardcore, Review, High Noon, The Computer and Construction Industry, CAD Systems & Costs, Building Regulations, The Peak Competition, Planning Policy, Computers in Project Management, Progress of a CAD, House of Today Competition, High Noon at the Drawing Board, Annual Conference 1983, McGrath Lecture, Council, Northern Report, Southern Report, President writes to Tanaiste, Capital Expenditure in the Public Sector, Dick Spring, Minister for the Environment, IPI Policy Papers - A review, First National House of Today, Naish O’Dowd, Liam O’Herlihy, Jim Horan, Riordan Kavanagh O’Reilly, Maoliosa O'Floinn, Jones & Kelly, Bernard Cunningham, Richard Barnwall, Mary Walsh, Architects’ Report of Winning Scheme, Cherry Garden Pier, Campione d’Italia, Building Design Award Scheme, Dublin’s Planning Officers, Running for the ABS, Northern Excellence, Architects’ Golfing society, Surveyors’ Report, Plan Expo, 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, CAD, Computer Aided Drawing, IPI, Irish Planning Institute, ABS, Architects’ Benevolent Society, society, fund
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Architecture Ireland 281

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #285 focuses on topics such as the RIAI Annual Awards and commercial architecture.

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RIAI Bulletin 45

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 56

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 302

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #10

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #10 considers the impact of capital on the shaping of suburban space. Three essays describe how the architecture, society, and culture of a city can be influenced by the flows of finance.

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Architecture Ireland 319

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #319 focuses on the theme of 'public space'.

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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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Celebrating Pugin

Editor: Colum O'Riordan. Author: Roderick O'Donnell.
Book
€ 10.00 

Celebrating Pugin features a selection of drawings by 19th-century architect A. W. N. Pugin, displayed as part of an exhibition in the Irish Architectural Archive marking the bicentenary of his birth. The book also includes an essay by Roderick O'Donnell providing an overview on the role of Pugin in Ireland.

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UCD Architecture 2006

Editors: Gary A. Boyd, Hugh Campbell, Pierre Jolivet, Jim Murphy, Elizabeth Shotton.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.

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Back to the Street

Author: Gerry Cahill.
Book
€ 6.00 

Jointly published by the Housing Resarch Unit at the School of Architecture in University College Dublin and Cement-Roadstone Holdings Ltd., Back to the Street records Dublin inner-city housing at the beginning of the 1980s and proposes a strategy of urban renewal through the provision of housing to deal with city dereliction and decay.

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Rural

Author: Dominic Stevens.
Book
€ 5.90 

Rural is a collection of projects and essays on contemporary issues facing rural modes of inhabitations and ways to reimagine their potential future.

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Ireland in the Year 2000

Book
€ 7.95 

This paper documents the proceedings of a colloquy on Ireland in the Year 2000, held in Kilkea Castle in February 1980.

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