All of the City Architects team were deeply saddened at the untimely passing of our colleague and friend, architect Dearbhla McClean, just before Christmas after a short illness. Dearbhla was a compassionate and talented designer and a wonderfully positive presence in City Architects.  She worked on the Council’s libraries and other cultural buildings and was […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Thanks to everyone who made our Drawing Workshop during Open House Dublin such a fun event. We were joined by a great range of young participants who brought great enthusiasm to the afternoon. Thanks to our colleagues at Pearse Street Library and Archive who invited us and made everything work smoothly and our guest assistants, animators Amalia […]

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.   […]

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 […]

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.

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