This year’s annual architectural festival Open House will take place across the city from Friday 14th to Sunday 16th October.  It is a unique opportunity for citizens to explore, understand and re-discover the architecture of their city through over 150 free events and tours, including buildings not generally accessible to the public. This year Dublin […]

High quality and well-designed living environments can bring economic, social and environmental benefits to cities, towns, and rural communities across Ireland The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Darragh O’Brien TD and Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform Malcolm Noonan T.D launched the Government’s new National Policy on Architecture,  “Places for People”, on […]

We’re looking forward to Open House Dublin 2021 which is organised by the Irish Architecture Foundation and there are plenty of Dublin City Council buildings you can see up close this year: Ballybough House: a pilot project to provide an energy efficiency retrofit in a Protected Structure Newly completed terrace of homes at Margaret Kennedy […]

While housing makes up the majority of Dublin City Council’s building projects, the Council also has a significant collection of civic buildings that require development, redevelopment or maintenance: libraries, galleries, fire stations, historic buildings and monuments and leisure centres to name a few. The City Architects team, work on behalf of the departments responsible for […]

Dublin City Council’s Area Offices are the key to coordinating the delivery of services in communities across the City’s five administrative areas. The Area Offices provide a broad range of services including local housing services, communities development projects, street repairs, dealing with litter and graffiti and sports development among others. This is the fifth of […]

  In early 2020, we posted a series of blogs on City Architects project targets for the year. We’re going to reflect on these targets over the coming weeks and tell you what’s planned for 2021. As with last year, the posts will be organised by programme strand (links are to last year’s posts): Public […]

The Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin City, has been in continuous recorded occupation since 1715. As a national monument it is historically and architecturally significant as a rare example of the early 18th century Queen Anne style architecture in Dublin. The early 18th century staircase off the main entrance […]

Last weekend saw the 15th Open House Dublin festival, and the first Open House to take place online. Organisers the Irish Architecture Foundation  gathered a fantastic collection of virtual tours, films and interviews for the online festival that Dublin City Council were delighted to be part of. While It’s a pity that people missed out […]

City Architects have been overseeing an ongoing programme of conservation works to the Georgian buildings that form part of the Parnell Square Cultural Quarter development on behalf of Dublin City Public Libraries. The works have received funding support from the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and have been designed and managed by the […]

The previous blog posts in this series focused on the main work areas of each of the teams in City Architects. Here we are highlighting some of the larger, more strategic developments that City Architects have been working on. The first of these is a development masterplan for lands at Emmet Road in Inchicore, site […]

While housing makes up the majority of Dublin City Council’s building projects, the Council also has a significant collection of civic buildings that require development, redevelopment or maintenance: libraries, galleries, fire stations, historic buildings and monuments and leisure centres to name a few. In City Architects this work is covered by Team 10. The team […]

Dublin City Council’s Area Offices are the key to coordinating the delivery of services in communities across the City’s five administrative areas. The Area Offices provide a broad range of services including local housing services, communities development projects, street repairs, dealing with litter and graffiti and sports development among others. This fourth post about our […]

As we approach the end of 2019, we thought we’d look back at events across our work on new housing developments, public housing regeneration, public realm projects, conservation works, and civic projects such as public libraries. So below is a snapshot of some of the project milestones achieved in 2019 and some of those planned […]

Dublin City Councillors approved five significant DCC developments under the Part 8 planning process at the Council Meeting on Monday 7th October 2019, marking a key stage in Dublin City Council’s ongoing programme of delivery of new homes and the upgrade and expansion of the city’s community, cultural and heritage buildings. These are: Infirmary Road […]

On the weekend of the All-Ireland Football Final, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Paul McAuliffe, was delighted to welcome his counterpart and friend the Mayor of Kerry, Niall Kelleher, to stay in the Mansion House. Mayor Niall Kelleheris the first guest to stay in the newly added formal guest quarters on the first floor of […]

Here are some photos of Coolock Library as its refurbishment nears completion. Scheduled for re-opening in the Autumn, the redeveloped library designed by consultant architects Mahoney Architecture will feature a maker space, student study areas, a range of bookable community meeting rooms and a large children’s library with reading alcoves and a story tree.   […]

The Mansion House is ready for its new Lord Mayor in residence with a significant phase of conservation works having recently been completed by City Architects. All works were carried out by Dublin City Council’s in-house Joinery Team in July 2018. Dublin City Architects are a Grade 1 Accredited Conservation Practice. The conservation team oversee […]

Another key stage in the development of Parnell Square Cultural Quarter has been reached with the granting of planning permission for the Quarter which will be anchored by a new City Library. Permission was granted for the plans prepared by the design team led by Grafton Architects and Shaffrey Architects on 1st May 2019. The project to […]

New technologies are enabling innovation in construction all the time. For conservation work, new surveying technologies give us new insights into our historic buildings. A recent collaboration with the City Council’s Surveying and Mapping Division to carry out a detailed drone survey of the roofscape and the interior of the rotunda of City Hall has […]

Markievicz Sports and Fitness Centre is located on Townsend Street in Dublin city centre. The Markievicz Sports and Fitness Centre replaced the old swimming pool at the same location and opened in the year 2000. Refurbishment works were carried out in 2016 under the guidance of Dublin City Council Structural Engineering Section.

St Bricin’s Park, Arbour Hill is a mid 1960’s development comprising of 68 bedsit units. There are three blocks of bedsits each two-storey high.  The Structural Engineering section is providing design services in conjunction with internal and external consultants led by Architect James Walsh of Low Energy Design (Blocks 2 and 3). Block 2, Load Testing […]

Pigeon House Power Station has recently featured in Open House Dublin on Saturday the 13th of October. City Architects would like to thank all of you who participated in Open House Dublin and braved the elements in what was a very wet day that failed to dampen the enthusiasm for the 13th annual event. City Architect’s and […]

Images by Ros Kavanagh Dublin City Council are proud sponsors of Open House Dublin and Sealawn Lodge and the restored St Anne’s Follies are some of the of the fine examples of Architecture to explore on Saturday the 13th of October with free guided tours by expert volunteers. More information on the Open house Tour can […]

Detailed plans for Parnell Square Cultural Quarter, which will be anchored by a new City Library, were presented in City Hall, today, Monday 10 September.

Rutland Street National School (formerly the Pro Cathedral School) was constructed between 1910 and 1912, as a response to the lack of school places and the conditions of existing school buildings in the North East Inner City.  Designed by Aislin and Coleman Architects, it is an early example

Kevin Street Library is set in the south city centre and first opened to the public in 1904. As a flagship branch of Dublin City’s library network it stood as a cornerstone for the neighbourhoods it served, connecting people to each other and to their community. The Library was

Kevin Street Library; Refurbishment Works for Accessibility, DCA – full service Image by City Architects    Continuing our series of blog posts, giving insight into the work carried out by City Architects Division, today’s post focuses on projects that are neither Housing nor Public Realm.

The first images of the design for the Parnell Square Cultural Quarter were presented as part of an update to Dublin City Council’s Culture Recreation & Amenity Strategic Policy Committee  last week.

Anyone visiting Civic Offices recently will have seen building work going on.

The Irish Architecture Foundation in collaboration with The Matheson Foundation and Dublin City Council’s Parks Dept continued with the next stage of the competition to design a play and skate space for ‘The Lawns’ in Le Fanu Park, Dublin 10.

The Mansion House was host to last week’s seminar on to mark the buildings tercentenary.

Here’s a good in-depth report on the Mansion House by RTE Nationwide which aired this week.

Light is something we all take for granted, but once captured it offers a new dimension to how we see things, and the spaces we inhabit.  Kevin Street Library is about many things but primarily about the light.

A multi-disciplinary team led by Grafton Architects and Shaffrey Associates have been chosen for the redevelopment of the Parnell Square Cultural Quarter.  The announcement was made today by Dublin City Council and the Parnell Square Foundation.  

Congratulations from all at Dublin City Architects to our former colleague Giulia Vallone on her success in the 2014 RIAI Awards.   The Clonakilty 400, Urban Design Masterplan by Cork County Council Architects beat off stiff competition to secure the Public Choice Award.

  Saturday 12 April 2014 saw Kevin Street Library reunited with its cupola.

A joint Dublin City Council, Office of Public Works project is underway to improve the public realm and visitor experience at Kilmainham Gaol.

There will be a free lecture by Kathleen James-Chakraborty at Rathmines Library at 6.oopm on Monday 4th November

UPDATE: Details of the Cork Hill Public Realm Design Workshop confirmed The details of the workshop below are as follows: Date: Friday 15th March Time: 10.00am Venue: Wood Quay Venue, Dublin City Council Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8 Contact: email design@dublincity.ie to reserve a place

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

Recently the ground floor reception rooms and the Lord Mayor’s apartment at the Mansion House have been re-lamped with LED bulbs – one of a number of energy saving measures completed at the house over the past 12 months, initiated by City Architects and supported by SEAI

The Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin City, has remained at the centre of Dublin’s civic hospitality for 300 years.

Quality of design and architecture in the public procurement system is a major issue for the public sector in getting the quality of facilities needed to deliver the best public services.

Kevin Street Library bade farewell to its cupola earlier this month, temporarily.

Following on from our last post, here are some images of the original building of the markets. Great to see how this solid landmark building rose out of the ground…

Happy Christmas and all the best for the New Year from Dublin City Architects!

  The National Disability Authority has launched new design guidance with the aim of promoting the accessibility of heritage sites