Northumberland Road – Laurence and Long Architects

The ‘Historic Places – Living City Spaces’ conference will examine the re-use and adaptation of the city’s built heritage. This one day conference will take place on Thursday 15h October 2015 as a collaboration by the Dept. of Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht, the RIAI, and the Irish Architecture Foundation with City Architects Division. The purpose of the collaboration is to raise awareness of the importance of re-using historic buildings, the delivery of high quality design and conservation led intervention as concepts central to successfully delivering residential accommodation within vacant historic places.

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New café at the Red Stables, St. Anne’s Park, Raheny

City Architect’s Division was asked by the Parks Department of Dublin City Council to design a new café in the Red Stables, St. Anne’s Park, Raheny.

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Figure 1: McCurdy’s front elevation of the Shelbourne Hotel c.1865

The Shelbourne Hotel has been undergoing a substantial amount of conservation repair of late and we were very fortunate to attend a training morning hosted by Dermot Collier of Acol Ltd and Alistair Lindsay of Lindsay Conservation Architects to discuss the challenges they faced in repairing the historic facade. This was an initiative of the Conservation Officer/City Architects Division to promote best conservation practice in the repair of historic buildings as a key objective for re-making and enhancing the city experience for visitors and citizens alike. The purpose of the day was to address the deficit in training CPD for technical specifiers on historical buildings/protected structures. It was convened by the city’s Conservation Officer with the support of the Dept AHG, ACOL Ltd, Lindsay Architects and the Shelbourne Hotel – the attendees were able to see at first hand the manufacture of missing or damaged components as well as experience the on-going site planning and decision making process needed to deliver this high-profile conservation project.

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Figure 1: Group standing outside the Dublin City Council Offices

As part of Heritage Week 2015, City Architects/Conservation designed a walking tour of along the ‘Slighe Mór’, the great ancient Western route. The tour followed the format of the successful Aungier Street walking trail – the narrative of the city’s cultural heritage enlivened by the findings of archaeological excavations with specially arranged visits to site currently under development with surviving historic fabric. Guides included Dublin City Conservation Officer, Nicola Matthews, architect Aisling Kehoe and Archaeologist Cian O’Raghallaigh.
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Housing Regeneration – Ballymun, Dublin

Dublin City Council through City Architects has been building links with Singapore, a city that applies a strong design focus in urban development. City Architect Ali Grehan was invited to Singapore recently to see the impressive work being done by the Urban Redevelopment Authority and share insights about Dublin’s design approach. In addition to making a presentation to the Centre for Liveable Cities Ali did an interview for the URA’s publication Skyline, an edited version of which is published today and can be found here.

The full Q&A is below.

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Dublin City is competing to be European Capital of Culture 2020.

The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union for a period of one calendar year. Each year, two cities from two chosen European countries are nominated as a Capital of Culture. In 2020, Ireland and Croatia have been announced as the chosen countries. The delegated city for each country will be selected by a process of open competition.

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Friday 19th June sees the launch of the 5Cube Energy Pavilion at Hanover Quay at the Grand Canal Dock.

CGI of 5Cube

A new intriguing black glass cube is currently being installed on Hanover Quay, just beyond U2’s studios at the facing Marine School Walk opposite the Waterfront apartments. This new mysterious installation, animating the quayside is a smart energy feature. (more…)

“Located in the one of the most disadvantaged areas of Dublin’s inner city, the regeneration of Liberty House (renamed Peadar Kearney House) has been a flagship project in the Integrated Area Plan that the City Council adopted for the north east inner city.
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McKee Park; Project architects: Matt Carroll and Jeremy Wales, City Architects Division. Photograph: Donal Murphy Photographer.

City Architects have advertised a position for Graduate Architect Temporary, with an application deadline of Friday 20th February at 5pm.

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Happy Christmas to all from City Architects and best wishes for 2015.  This has been a busy year and we have tried to keep you updated throughout 2014 on this blog.   This has included posts on urban design proposals, such as latest with the Grafton Street Quarter, updates on the latest work in ongoing projects such as Kevin Street Library, pieces of research on topics like the earliest coffee houses in the city, alongside the housing projects that City Architects work on.

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