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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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14.10.2013Dublin House Workshop


 

Wouldn’t you love to create your own home in the heart of Dublin City – for yourself or your family?

Dublin House is an initiative by the City Architects division of Dublin City Council to promote the potential of small-scale residential development in inner city and inner suburban areas. It is aimed at people who want to create a home for themselves in the city.


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Watch Ali Grehan, City Architect, discuss the Dublin House idea at TEDxDublin.


Download the brochure Part 1 and Part 2 for the Dublin House Fishamble Street demonstration project.

 

Upcoming Workshop!

This is a new project for the City and it will be beneficial to give potential Dublin House residents an opportunity to influence the process. Before we finalise the project criteria and terms of the site disposal, we invite interested people to attend a co-creation workshop. The purpose of this is to ensure that our criteria are viable and will meet your needs.

This workshop is for people with a genuine and serious interest in developing a Dublin House at Fishamble Street. It will not be a general information meeting.

The workshop will be held in the Wood Quay Venue (at the Civic Offices in Dublin 8, and next to the Fishamble Street site) on Wednesday 30th October 2013 from 18.30 to 20.30.

Please register your interest in attending to dublinhouse@dublincity.ie with a contact name and email address.

Following the workshop, we will publish the site disposal notice in November 2013. You will be welcome to respond to this even if you do not attend the above workshop.

Dublin House – Register Your Interest For Workshop

 

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