Dublin City Council and Point Village Limited recently announced that the winner of Dublin’s Parlour Design Competition is LiD Architecture. The Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland (RIAI) ran the single stage competition on behalf of the competition promoters, Point Village Limited. The competition was open to…

Irish architecture firm O’Donnell & Tuomey has won the RIBA-organized design contest for a new $35.6 million student center at the London School of Economics.

The Irish Railway Procurement Agency is pleased to announce that the winners of the competition to design the Metro West–Liffey Valley Bridge are Buro Happold and Explorations Architecture. The RIAI (Royal Institute of the Architects of…

The West Cork Arts Centre recently announced the winner of the West Cork Arts Centre’s Architectural Design Competition: Dublin-based Donaghy + Dimond Architects. This highly prestigious international Design Competition attracted a remarkable 216 entries for the design of a new Arts Centre for Ireland’s West…

Via Building Design: Belfast-firm Hackett Hall McKnight have topped a strong shortlist to win the Young Architect of the Year 2008 award. Alastair Hall (left), Mark Hackett and Ian McKnight. (Photo via Building Design) In the…

NEX, with engineering support from AKT, has won an open international design competition for a bridge across the River Dodder in central Dublin. The pedestrian bridge is being commissioned by the Mountbrook Group as part of their major redevelopment of the site of the existing Jury’s/Berkeley Court Hotels in Ballsbridge,…

An important step in the restoration of the Spencer Dock Sea Lock took place with the installation of new outer, tidal lock gates some weeks ago.  The redevelopment project will see the creation of a six-hectare public green area in the North Lotts area and are a further step in…

A Dublin office block branded hideous by hit Hollywood actor Gabriel Byrne has been entered in a major international architectural competition. The new Department of Finance on Merrion Row is one of a series of Irish projects by nine architects representing the country at the Venice Architecture Biennale in September.…

The Irish Architecture Awards, which travel to approximately 20 venues around Ireland and to London, are intended to communicate the range, variety and quality of the Architects work in any one year. Here is a list of this year’s winning projects: Best Accessible Project: ABK Architects for the New Civic…