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Printing House Square / Mccullough Mulvin Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Printing House Square is the first new square to be built in Trinity for 200 years. McCullough Mulvin Architects were appointed to the project after winning a limited competition. The design creates a new gateway between college and city, opening the historic campus along what had previously been an impermeable section of Pearse Street. The courtyard form provides student accommodation, health and disability services, and a sports centre - its stone roof folding down to provide an intimate context around the 18th century Printing House.

How Architecture Communicates the Greater Cultural Context: 4 Projects by Studio Libeskind

Jullia Joson — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 07:30:00 +0000

Polish-American architect, artist, professor, and set designer, Daniel Libeskind, founder of Studio Libeskind in 1989, believes that buildings are crafted with perceptible human energy, constructed with the intention to address the greater cultural context in which they are built. His commitment to expanding the scope of architecture reflects his profound interest and involvement in philosophy, art, literature, and music.

On Achieving An Equal Future: International Women’s Day 2021

Christele Harrouk — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 08:30:00 +0000

Another year and another International Women’s Day. Although recently, the gender debate has taken considerable attention, the battle for equality is far from over. Even in the 21st century, architecture can still be a challenging profession for women. Progress is happening though, and in 2020, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara became the 4th and 5th women to receive the Pritzker prize, ever since its inception in 1979.

Butler Gallery / Mccullough Mulvin Architects

Valeria Silva — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Architects Ruth O’Herlihy and Niall McCullough’s design has transformed a former almshouse in Kilkenny into a new cultural resource for the city.

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Named 2020 Pritzker Prize Laureates

Christele Harrouk — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

This year, architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Prize, has been granted to Grafton Architects' Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin, Ireland. The 2020 Laureates, who are both educators and architects, are known for their powerful yet delicate approaches. Their contextual and modern interventions are very attentive to history, demonstrating high levels of sensitivity and craftsmanship.

Grafton Architects: Get to Know 2020 Pritzker Winners’ Built Work

AD Editorial Team — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara founded Grafton Architects in 1978, after they met each other at the School of Architecture at University College Dublin. The practice, named after the street where the duo's first office was located, has been awarded this year’s prestigious 2020 Pritzker Award. Grafton's built work reflects the continued search of architectural excellence, in buildings ranging from small scale housing to large public volumes.

20 Details of Stunning Small-Scale Structures

Fabian Dejtiar — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Throughout history, simple structures have constituted one of the most common forms of human expression. Small-scale housing, shelters, and viewpoints have been shaped by myriad materials that effectively created - depending on the techniques used - different forms of response to the same need.

Grafton Architects Wins 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:30:00 +0000

Dublin-based Grafton Architects have been announced as the winners of the RIBA 2020 Royal Gold Medal, the UK’s highest honor for architecture. Recognizing the practice’s significant global contribution to architecture, the award is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen. RIBA acknowledged that the people-centered practice has achieved global recognition and is known especially for its exemplary education buildings.

Spotlight: Daniel Libeskind

Connor Walker — Sat, 12 May 2018 06:00:00 +0000

In the architecture world, few designers can claim to have a more clearly-defined style than Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946). Much of Libeskind's work is instantly recognizable for its angular forms, intersecting planes, and frequent use of diagonally-sliced windows, a style that he has used to great effect in museums and memorials—but which he has equally adapted to conference centers, skyscrapers, and shopping malls.

Extension to Primary School / Paul Dillon Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 05:00:00 +0000

This extension of a two-teacher national school in a small village in the west of Ireland provides one new classroom, resource room and three new shelters. The three new shelters are intended to be central to the school and village. They can be used for outdoor teaching or as play houses on an imaginary street. The largest shelter can be used as a stage for open air performances by the school or small local community.

K House / Architectstm

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000

The site of this house is located to the rear of an existing period house facing onto a cul de sac, offering views west to the dome of Rathmines church and indirectly north to the grand canal.

Extension to Secondary School / Paul Dillon Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 05:00:00 +0000

This project provides three new classrooms and three new shelters for a small rural secondary school on the west coast of Ireland. Externally, the shelters are intended as social areas to wait before and after school, or eat lunch. Internally, a folding wall allows the joining of two classrooms to provide the school with its only assembly room, which also serves as a meeting place for the local community. The extension is presented as a separate building set back from the line of the original school. The new building forms a sheltered courtyard at the heart of the school.

Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering / Grafton Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +0000

This is the second extension we have completed to this Department, the first being in 1996, which addresses the campus and is attached to the existing Parsons building which houses the Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering.

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Awarded 2017 Thomas Jefferson Medals in Architecture

Osman Bari — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Yvonne Farrell and Shelly McNamara, directors of Grafton Architects, have been recognized along with three other individuals as winners of the 2017 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals. The award, presented by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, recognizes “the exemplary contributions of recipients to the endeavors in which Jefferson excelled and held in high regard”, including Law, Citizen Leadership, Global Innovation, and Architecture.

Campus Conference Centre / Cooney Architects

Valentina Villa — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:00:00 +0000

The Campus Conference Centre at National Sport Campus in west Dublin is a ‘Hub’ for social and professional interaction at the campus. The master plan for Sports Campus Ireland resulted from a winning entrant competition in 2008, to date more than nineteen sports governing bodies are located on the campus.

40 Projects Shortlisted for the 2017 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies Van Der Rohe Award

Amanda Pimenta — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 07:40:00 +0000

The European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation have announced the 40 shortlisted works that will compete for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The jury has chosen from 355 nominated works and the shortlist highlights the opportunities and the trends of today’s European territory: cities, housing, heritage, and memory. The five finalists will be announced in mid-February and the winner and the Emerging Architect in mid-May.

Floating Plane Hidden Garden / Mccullough Mulvin Architects

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 11 May 2016 13:00:00 +0000

A new singular roof plane floats over part of the rear of the site to create a sunken garden room enclosing a calm courtyard, proportioned on a golden section ratio. A rooflight over steps to the new room – similarly proportioned – generates a diagonal conversation between open and closed spaces. Dissolving boundaries between inside and outside, integrating living rooms with garden spaces by creating an undulating ground plane under a floating roof, it reinforces the idea of the traditional Dublin type, the single storey villa with its ingenious split section. By sinking the garden room and terrace below the hidden courtyard between old and new, then stepping the garden to its original level, volume and spaciousness as well as privacy and intimacy are created.

5CUBE Energy Pavilion / de Siún Scullion Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 04:00:00 +0000

5CUBE is a semi-permanent pavilion in Hanover Quay, Dublin Docklands, physically representing the volume of oil consumed every five minutes in Ireland. It was designed by Declan Scullion of the newly formed practice de Siún Scullion Architects, Dublin (www.dssa.ie).