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Dark Matter: Revisiting The Architecture of Coal in Post-War Europe

Rene Submissions — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:10:00 +0000

We are excited to invite submissions for DARK MATTER: Revisiting the Architecture of Coal in Post-War Europe, an in-person conference hosted by the ACME (Architecture of Coal in Modern Europe) project (ERC Advanced Grant, 2024–2030), taking place at the Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin on 5+6 November 2026.

In the decades following the Second World War, coal developed from an extracted energy source to a multi-dimensional modernist project. Across Europe, coal mining became an epicentre of technological optimism, democratic politics, urban regeneration, and mass communication—its architectures and spaces redefined as symbols and sites of progress, welfare-state ambition, and conduits for reorganising everyday

Open House Dublin 2025

Rene Submissions — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000

For this year’s Open House Dublin free festival of architecture, taking place 11th-19th October, the Irish Architecture Foundation is inviting people to explore how the design of our built environment can shape a better world for generations to come

Celebrating its 20th year, this year’s festival joins the continent-wide Open House Europe programme exploring the theme ‘Future Heritage’, with Dublin’s O’Connell Street, a place where the past, present and future converge, serving as the focal point of the visual campaign.

The Open House Dublin programme features more than 200 events for everyone to experience free of charge. This year’s festival promises to

Open House Dublin 2024

Rene Submissions — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:30:00 +0000

Open House Dublin returns with a nine-day programme, taking place from October 12 to 20! With over 200 free events, including guided tours, workshops, exhibitions, and more, the festival offers a unique opportunity to discover Dublin city and county as a place of belonging for all.

This year’s festival will start with a dedicated Junior weekend for children and families on October 12 and 13, with the main programme of events, including tours of buildings, outdoor spaces, and residences, taking place from October 18 to 20. In between, the popular Open Table conversations series is returning and will take place daily

Apple Tree Terrace / Scullion Architects

Valeria Silva — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

A Victorian terraced house is extended to the rear, drawing closer to an old apple tree in the south-facing garden. A narrow site demands that functions (kitchen, courtyard, stairs, stove, study) align with edges and attach to structure, occasionally swelling towards the heart of the plan.

Dominick Hall Housing / Carr Cotter & Naessens + Denis Byrne Architects

Valeria Silva — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Project Background/Context. The site is located on part of the previous Dominick Street flats complex on the east side of Lower Dominick Street, Dublin 1, at the junction with Parnell Street. The mixed-use development for Dublin City Council includes apartments and townhouses with a community center and retail space at street level. The six-story block along Dominick Street consists of a terrace of 6 apartment “houses” of 5 stories, providing 67 apartments over the ground floor community center and commercial space. A short terrace of 5 townhouses defines Dominick Place, a new street linking Dominick Street to Granby Place.

Smithfield House / Studio Anois

Valeria Silva — Sat, 13 May 2023 09:00:00 +0000

This early Georgian city center building has undergone extensive renovation to create a sustainable contemporary home in the heart of Dublin city. The majority of the building was destroyed in a fire in the 1980’s with most of the original features eradicated, leaving only the original front facade and party wall. The design intent was to work with the existing fabric as much as possible. The existing structural beams and posts were retained, and the brick party wall was exposed. At the front façade, the damaged cement pebble dash render was removed, and sliding sash windows were reinstated.

The Exo Building / Shay Cleary Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000

The EXO is a major new office development at the eastern edge of Point Square, a significant emerging civic space in the city. The name of the building is derived from the large-scale exoskeleton steel structure which will be a defining element of the building’s iconography.

Pembroke Square / ALTU Architects

Valeria Silva — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 06:00:00 +0000

The regeneration and extension of a late 19th Century Terrace. The site comprised a set of five late 19th Century terraced houses and an unused space to the rear of the houses which previously contained their back gardens. The houses form the interface between two urban types; A historical main street relating to Dundrum Village to the front and a modern food & beverage district to the rear. Through time, the houses had become lost in ‘no man’s land’ through lack of a viable use and sat vacant and degrading. Careful refurbishment, amalgamation, and extension have brought them into the next chapter of their life as a food hall, restaurant, and a new public square.

A House, Coach House & Garden / Culligan Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 02:00:00 +0000

A new build family house and an existing coach house are located within the garden, to the rear, of a listed house in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland. The new build house is located between an existing 19th-century coach house building and a garden to the rear of a listed late Georgian house. The site prior to the building of the house was left idle for many years.

Charleville House / Scullion Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +0000

This project breathes new life into a compact artisan cottage in Dublin's north inner city. Using a strategy of only removing what was dilapidated, we leave remnants of previous extensions, allowing us to re-imagine a new two-story intervention, like a ship-in-a-bottle within the shell of the old single-story cottage.

Foxes Grove House / DUA

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 19:00:00 +0000

We were commissioned to design a new 2-bed house, for a family, on a corner site, in a suburban estate in county Dublin. The design of the building reflects the form of the adjacent houses. It respects the front and rear building lines of the housing estate, whilst incorporating the existing boundary wall, in the ground floor plan. The building is constructed from a timber frame structure, which was erected in 3 days. This is reflected externally by the Siberian larch cladding that wraps the exterior.

Central Quad Grangegorman Campus / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Andreas Luco — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 03:00:00 +0000

Central Quad is a 35,000m2 interdisciplinary teaching building for the TU Dublin Grangegorman Campus. Science, research, and innovation-focussed, it accommodates ten schools from the College of Sciences & Health, College of Engineering & Built Environment, and College of Arts & Tourism. Central Quad is home to 6,500 students and 400 staff and provides flexible and specialist accommodation alongside general learning space, distributed learning commons, staff accommodation, and building support.

The Printmaking Workshop / Scullion Architects + Plus Studio

chlsey — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The Printmaking Workshop is located along the pedestrianized St Brendan’s Way, where the fringe of the new TU Dublin Grangegorman Campus meets the industrial landscape of the former Broadstone Railway Station and Bus Depot.

Tenters Triangle House / Robert Bourke Architects

Alexandria Bramley — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 11:00:00 +0000

This former Dublin Corporation house, built in 1922, lies on a triangular site in south Dublin. One of the city’s oldest industrial areas, The Tenters, derives its name from the fabric industry that sprung up in the 1600s: linen and fabrics were hung from tenterhooks in extensive drying fields.

Copeland House / Architectural Farm

Valeria Silva — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Renovation and extension of a 1950’s semi-detached house where the new elements are expressed, internally and externally, as a continuous twisting brick ribbon interwoven with, and supporting the original structure. This new brick structures encloses, at ground floor, a new kitchen, dining and a sunken living area, defined by a polished concrete datum, with a new master bedroom and en-suite at first floor.

Churchtown House Extension / Scullion Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 03:00:00 +0000

On this extension to a 1930s semi-detached house in the suburbs of Dublin, our clients were interested in forming a new room that was a continuation of the gentle formality of the main house; rather than extend with a scaleless, rootless annex. The existing kitchen was positioned, as was typical of the time, in a utilitarian dark north-west corner of the original house, with windows onto a dark side passageway set a metre above the garden.

Portobello House / Scullion Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Located in Portobello, near Dublin’s City Centre, this project involves the renovation and extension of a typical Victorian villa-style terraced house for a young family. The house is one of many in the area where the entrance and original main reception room are located at the stair half-landing level, with half level access above to bedrooms and a half level below access to the rear kitchen and garden. We extracted the maximum volume of living area through excavating the main reception room floor down to create a partly sunken 5-metre high kitchen connecting to the garden level to the rear, with south light entering overhead through the original bay window.

Whispering House Social Hub / Coady Architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:00:00 +0000

The site is located within the heritage setting of the Protected Structures of St. Columba’s College. The brief was to create a central social hub for the students, staff, and visitors of St. Columba’s College on the site of a former outbuilding, with poor quality classrooms constructed in the mid 20th Century on the first floor. The outbuilding was constructed, at approximately 3m below the level of the historic walled garden, outside and against the part retaining surviving boundary wall.