Architects: ODOS Architects
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Photographs: Courtesy of ODOS Architects
Ireland
Architects: ODOS architects
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Engineers: Cora
Internal Floor Area: 190 sqm (per dwelling unit)
Project Design: 2006
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of ODOS architects
Architect: A2 Architects
Location: East Coast of Ireland
Project Area: 150 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of A2 Architetcs

Courtesy of CODA
In typography, the ‘Counter’ is the space contained by letters (this is where monkish Irish Illuminators famously had space to play). For the monks, the space between the letters was as meaningful as the letters themselves. In ‘Counterspace’, the winning proposal by CODA for the Europan 2011 competition in Dublin, the linear forms of the traditional rows are transformed and interwoven to create a range of counterspaces: from enclosed collective space for safe children’s play, to urban plaza for adults’ lattés. Just like on the 19th century street of industrial terraced Dublin, the life of the community happens in the space between the rows of housing, in the counterspace. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Architect: Ailtireacht
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Project Architect: Fiona Hughes, Allister Coyne
Building Contractor: Oaklawn
Structural Engineer: Casey O Rourke Associates (CORA)
Project Area: 125 sqm
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Paul Tierney
Architect: Ailtireacht
Location: Beaumont, Dublin, Ireland
Project Architect: Allister Coyne
Building Contractor: Buto Developments
Structural Engineer: Casey O Rourke Associates (CORA)
Project Area: 140 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Corsico Images
Architect: Ailtireacht
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Building Contractor: CRC Developments
Structural Engineer: Casey O Rourke Associates (CORA)
Project Architects: Andrew Brady, Allister Coyne
Project Year: 2006
Project Area: 90 sqm
Photographs: Paul Tierney, Paul Quinn, Kevin Kelly
Architect: Cox Power Architects
Location: Moyna, Kilmeena, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland
Project Team: John Cox, Sal Gallagher, Paul Janas, David Power, Finola Reilly, Martin Rybar
Client: Mayo County Council
Project Area: 1,180 sqm
Photographs: Michael McLaughlin, McLaughlin Studios
Architect: 4 Architecture (Gordon Chrystal)
Location: County Sligo, Ireland
Project Area: 226 sqm
Project Cost / sqm: €1,300 + VAT
Photographs: Steve Rogers & Gordon Chrystal

Courtesy of A2 Architects
Architect: A2 Architects
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Project Team: Peter Carroll, Caomhán Murphy, Miriam Dunn, Julia Gonzales, Tom O’Brien, David Maher (Engineer)
Project Area: 35 sqm
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Courtesy of A2 Architects

Courtesy of Queen's University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland
The School of Planning, Architecture & Civil Engineering (SPACE) at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland recently announced the event, Peripheries 2011 – the ninth International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) which occurs on the 27th to 29th of October. More information on the event after the break. read more »
Architect: Architecture Republic
Location: Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland
Client: John Graham, artist
Project Area: 25 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Paul Tierney
Architects: Robin Lee Architecture
Location: Wexford County, Ireland
Project Year: 2008
Project Area: 11,500 sqm
Photographs: Andrew Lee
The Slow Architecture Exhibition 2011 has just gotten underway. Canal Boat 107B will meander its way within Ireland’s canals and inland waterways over the next month promoting slow architecture through its floating exhibition centre and museum. Contributors for the summer of 2011 are Sonairte, Carson and Crushell Architects, Solearth, Architectural Farm with Michael Carroll, and Caelan Bristow. You can see a brief description of their contributions here as well as the full timetable for this year’s exhibition.
Architects: Box Urban
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Structural engineering: Lohan and Donnelly
Quantity surveyors: Flynn McNally MCKale Partnership
Planning consultants: Reid associates
Project area: 3,670 sqf
Photographs: Paul Tierney
The now empty and abandoned water towers presented here are part of a selection of photographs gathered by James Young, a final year architecture student, as part of a research project. With the help of the MacCarthy Memorial Scholarship from the School of Architecture at UCD, he has compiled a list of about 200 towers, with nearly thirty visited and photographed. Like other architectural building types that have been abandoned, what can architects do with water towers such as these? If no longer in use, what can be done to take advantage of these stand along structures? Let us know what you think. More images after the break. read more »
A repeat client from New York approached LOCAL to turn an old stone barn on his wife’s family farm compound in Ireland into a painter’s studio and vacation cottage. Because she is a landscape painter, she wanted a view and lots of light. At the same time, they wanted to retain the rustic character of the old stone barn. LOCAL decided to keep the façade facing the other buildings on the compound virtually untouched, and instead break out the entire façade facing the best view of the hills beyond the farm. Two skylights, invisible from the street, bring in light into the rear part of the house.
Architect: LOCAL
Location: County Cork, Ireland
Project Year: 2006
Project Area: 500 sqf
Photographs: Courtesy of LOCAL
Architects: Architecture Republic
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Project area: 42 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Paul Tierney Photography

Courtesy of 3XN
Two Danish Studios have been selected to compete in the prestigious competition to design Dublin’s new National Concert Hall. The two finalists were narrowed down from a shortlist of renowned architects from 2008. The two studios, 3XN and Henning Larsen Architects, delivered spectacular designs, which, unfortunately, will not be realized due to the cancellation of competition under Ireland’s fragile economic situation.
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© Courtesy of Boyd Cody Architects
Architects: Boyd Cody Architects
Location: Palmerston, Dublin, Ireland
Project area: 25 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Paul Tierney / Boyd Cody Architects















































































































