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Blockchain can offer a secure, transparent way to record agreements, and therefore holds potential across construction and property sectors, enabling real-time verification, automating payments, and improving data reliability. Yet its adoption in this context remains limited. In this article, Garry Miley discusses the possible impacts and limitations to the technology’s implementation.
ReadHighly visible and emotionally charged, electoral campaigns are often the first instance in which a state’s people encounter their elected representatives. In this article, Anna Cassidy, designer for Catherine Connolly's presidential campaign, examines how political design is indispensable to the democratic process.
ReadIn May 2024, the Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys installed a portal between Dublin and New York. In this article, Felix Hunter Green explores how the portal (the third of its kind at the time) introduced a new form of present tense, a remote urbanism, to the fabric of North Earl Street.
ReadCiarán Ferrie makes the case for more citizen participation in city life, culture, community, and democracy.
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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.
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.
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.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #277 focuses on topics such as the housing crisis, and celebrating O'Donnell and Tuomey's Royal Gold Medal.
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.
An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.
2ha #02 explores the relationship between photography and suburban space. Three essays respond to the intimate link between the medium of photography and the spaces we occupy.
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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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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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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 is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #272 focuses on the theme of 'the year in architecture'.
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Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #323 focuses on the theme of ‘labour’.
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Mapped is the outcome of a Dublin School of Architecture research project interested in the origins and morphology of Irish villages. The book is intended as a guide to planned villages; those distinctly formed by the actions of landlords, religious groups, and entrepreneurs.
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This paper reports on a study investigating aspects of housing estates related to the pedestrian precinct or residential yard concept.
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Featuring projects from 1953 to 1977, this book lays out 109 examples of modern architecture in Dublin, varying in occupation and scale, from small housing schemes and churches, to masterplan university development and city office blocks.
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An annual yearbook featuring student work from the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin.
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UTOPIA 7 is a published a study of utopian settlements in Ireland by students in the Dublin School of Architecture.
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An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.
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