In the vicinity of Grafton Street, which is one of Dublin’s busiest and most popular thoroughfares, St Teresa’s Church offers a peaceful space for contemplation and worship amid the urban turmoil. Beside it is the priory, home to a congregation of Ca
This project is a house and art gallery for a private collector, situated in the garden of an existing terrace near the city center. To adapt to the proportions of the site, the building is conceived as a long, linear volume with a stone base and a f
The day care center was commissioned by the Alzheimer Society of Ireland to provide flexible respite care for people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and to offer support for affected families. The challenge in designing a care environment for thos
The masterplan, designed with Allies and Morrison, gives UCD a strong physical presence in the city. The Centre for Creative Design consists of a series of volumes with landscaped terraces oriented towards the public promenade that crosses the campus
The different floors are visually and spatially connected by a series of large central voids. These spaces not only hierarchize and relate the different programs, but also ensure that light and air reach even the levels below ground...
The Matt Talbot, the first of the four buildings included in this municipal commission, is formed by apartments that flow out to private outdoor spaces, and where all the rooms are connected to a shared garden to foster a sense of community...
On the northwestern edge of the Belfield campus of the University College Dublin, the Urban Institute joins an original collection of mainly 19th century Masonic School buildings – now called Richview – which are loosely organized around a lime tree
This is a part of the Dublin coastal area beloved of James Joyce and immortalized in Ulysses. Located overlooking Dublin Bay, with Booterstown Marsh at its south-eastern boundary, and a frontage onto the main road connecting the sea port of Dun Laogh
Capital City. Symbolically the most important urban space in Dublin, it was widened in the 18th century and rebuilt after the destruction caused in the uprising of 1916 and the Civil War of 1922. O’Connell Street as a whole has existed in a constant
The Library is the most democratic institution in our society today, a free space where knowledge and resources are exchanged unconditionally, a space open to all nationalities and social classes. This welcoming and public character marked the starti
In the 1960s, the construction of the head offices for the National Electricity Supply Board involved demolishing sixteen 18th century houses. This was a controversial act since the continuity of the unique ‘Georgian mile’ of Fitzwilliam Street facad
The Commissioners of Public Works developed this new building to house the Department of Finance. It is the first new Government Department Building completed in Dublin since 1939. The project incorporated a link into the adjacent Government Building
In the historic Liberties area, southwest of the central core of Dublin, the Timberyard project repairs the fracture that the road engineering works for the new Cork Street corridor left on the local landscape. The social housing scheme provides a ne
The Sean O’Casey Community Centre goes up over the roofs of the East Wall area of Dublin. The main program – including a kindergarten, a daycare center for the elderly, sports halls, and a theater – is organized in four volumes that are hinged by fou
In a conflictive suburb west of Dublin, the Cherry Orchard School is isolated from its surroundings by a brick wall rising more than three meters high. The classrooms are introspectively distributed in four elongated volumes placed following a horn s
A school building can be understood as both a large house or a small town, because it addresses domestic and civic needs in equal measure. In this sense, Ranelagh School consists of interior and exterior spaces with different degrees of privacy that
Shortly after the Irish Film Institute was completed, a new public space, bound by two buildings across from one another, was raised in the same block: a brick volume for the National Photographic Archive and Gallery and the School of Photography. Th
The Irish Film Institute was the first of the three buildings O’Donnell and Tuomey completed in the Temple Bar area, in the center of Dublin. Inside a compact urban block, the project had to transform a motley ensemble of properties – that the Quaker
Designed in collaboration with the Irish artist Brian Maguire, this pavilion – the studio’s first public building – was originally designed to represent Ireland at the ‘11 Cities/11 Nations’ exhibition in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden in 1989, and two
In a port area east of Dublin, the redevelopment of an old industrial complex of 10 hectares aims to generate a new neighborhood, developing an area of 400,000 square meters. The scheme includes a low-density residential urban plan to the west and so
The irish Dermot Boyd and Peter Cody both graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology in 1990, although they developed their careers independently in Europe and in the United States up to the year 2000, when they established their studio togeth
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara were brainstorming for a name for their studio. It was 1978. They combined their surnames, switched their names around, sometimes drifting toward a more abstract or poetic formulation to go by as an architectural d
Según la clasificación oficial de la UEFA hay cuatro categorías de estadios de fútbol: 1, 2, 3 y de élite; sólo en éstos se pueden jugar finales UEFA. Dublín, capital de Irlanda, estrenará uno de ellos en agosto de este año, bautizado Aviva Stadium c
Por encima de los tejados inclinados del barrio de East Wall en Dublín, se alza un hito de chapa ondulada con perforaciones circulares a modo de ventanas. Se trata del Centro Comunitario Sean O’Casey, último edificio de los irlandeses O’Donnell y Tuo
