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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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Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.
This publication documents a two-day conference from 1973 discussing office location and regional development. Topics include reviewing the existing pattern of office location, considering future policies, and referencing international practice.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #314 focuses on the theme of 'leisure'.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #288 focuses on the theme of 'place and urban design'.
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.
Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #286 focuses on 1916 Centenary commemorations.
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 #303 focuses on the theme of ‘health and wellbeing’.
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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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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 '21st century learning'.
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An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.
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This paper documents the proceedings of a colloquy on Ireland in the Year 2000, held in Kilkea Castle in February 1980.
Read moreThis publication documents a two-day conference from 1973 discussing office location and regional development. Topics include reviewing the existing pattern of office location, considering future policies, and referencing international practice.
Read morePost 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.
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This book investigates the global architecture of commodities. It does so by examining the spaces of production and transportation of seven specific items, chosen for their ubiquity within everyday life. In doing so, we not only realise how a washing machine can relate to a banana, but also how, as architects, we might begin to design alternatives.
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