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"Well designed places, well designed homes, well designed public domains create value, respect, empathy between people."*

Dublin City Council is committed to using design to improve the attractiveness, liveability and sustainability of our built environment in its roles as planning authority, manager of public spaces and buildings and through its own construction projects.

Dublin City Architects is responsible for promoting design and providing architectural, urban and conservation design services to Dublin City Council. In doing this, we will:

  • Aim for Dublin’s citizens to enjoy the highest quality built environment; one that is clear, generous, appropriately scaled, positive to context, well made and which promotes access and inclusion.
  • Work to achieve excellence in the ordinary.
  • Consider places before buildings so that new developments contribute positively to public spaces.
  • Learn from the past in creating architecture that matches the quality and longevity of earlier periods.
  • Facilitate architecture that is contemporary, performs to the highest environmental standards, addresses climate change and is culturally cosmopolitan.

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19.11.2012‘In Progress’ The Way Wiser Collective

We thought we would share this film of a recent project at the historic City Markets building by the Way Wiser Collective.

The Collective’s video art projection ‘In Progress’ was selected from an open call competition for inclusion in Dublin Contemptibles 2: Gentrify This! local arts festival, September 13 – 30th 2012. The site-specific video projection was located at Dublin City Council’s Market building. Using a projected animation the Way Wiser Collective transformed the front facade as a surface to recall the original construction of the building.

The projected animation explores the process of gentrification, through an examination of the Victorian tradesmen who built the DCC Market Building.  The collective based the drawings on photographs from The National Library providing a direct connection with the period; however, during the process the themes transform and become imaginative interpretations. The resulting work is a combination of the practical and the fantastical, the modern and the ancient, the micro and the macro.

The Way-Wiser Collective was founded in 2011 with the mission of exploring latent possibilities in the urban landscape and creating interventions to shift public awareness. The members include Gráinne Tynan, Eimear Tynan, Mark Ferguson and Francis Quinn. They work out of The Market Studios, Dublin 7.

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