How our built environment shapes us: Architecture & the City, marks Open House Dublin '25 (first broadcast 13 October 2024). From 9.10am, Sunday 12 Oct. With Éimear Arthur, Cormac Murray, Emmett Scanlon, Kevin Marinan, Graham Hickey, Julie Cruickshank, @felispeaks.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social

New blog post by me on the #Irish #architecture platform TYPE, just published today: www.type.ie/blog/stonine... It developed from my recent trip to Brno, where one can visit almost every room of the restored Villa Tugendhat, one of Mies van der Rohe's iconic earlier buildings.

Adventures in hitchhiking, hurlers’ hopes and dreams, a barefoot wonder and an elephant in Phibsborough Sunday Miscellany 20/07/25 on now! Doireann Ní Bhriain Joe Whelan Cormac Murray Theo Dorgan Lani O'Hanlon John Allen #HurlingFinal #corkvtipp Listen in/back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

Mummers Theater, John M. Johansen, Oklahoma City, USA, 1970

How can cities reimagine existing spaces to address contemporary urban challenges? Watch #TheCityReused now youtu.be/nperbvMIR2I?... The panel explored the transformative potential of reuse and creative adaptation in urban development - moderator @cormac-murray.bsky.social Photos by Ste Murray

Another excellent (free) article on TYPE by Graham Hickey: "Dublin’s greatest ‘known unknown’, our best kept public secret, is that the North Georgian Core is floundering in a deleterious cycle of substandard uses and ever-accelerating unauthorised development" www.type.ie/blog/dublins...

How to turn a corner Nicaragua Dwellings, low income housing in Barcelona by Ricardo Bofill, 1965 (Windows open to the east and west as the corner faces north) www.arquitecturacatalana.cat/en/works/hab...

Delighted to share a new article on TYPE (a website on design and the built environment). This week's article is by architect Ciarán Molumby, tackling the frightening statistics of construction waste produced in Ireland, and what needs to change in culture and practice. www.type.ie/blog/the-6-c...

‘We review solutions including improving affordability by reducing demand for homes as financial assets, macroprudential policy, expanding social housing, and reducing underutilisation of floor-space.’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Plan Magazine Oct 1984. A Special on A + D Wejchert Architects recent projects. Includes their entry to the Hong Kong Peak competition that Zaha Hadid won. Ed Burke & partners, Dublin, came 3rd; design was by Charlie Donnelly who went on to set up Donnelly Turpin in 1996.