In its 20th year the Irish Architecture Foundation chose 'Future Heritage' as the theme for Open House Dublin. AT asks Emmett Scanlon, Director of IAF, how the festival has evolved to reflect contemporary Irish cities, and what's still left to see following the festival's opening week.
Laura Carroll and Ciarán Molumby, winners of the 2025 RIAI Emerging Practice Award at Islander Architects, speak to AT about the benefits of an interdisciplinary practice, their involvement in HouseEurope!, and how this campaign has influenced them as architecture educators.
Denise Murray from Metropolitan Workshop talks to AT about balancing delivery and design quality amid Ireland’s housing crisis — and why public understanding of architecture is key to lasting neighbourhoods.
An AT event, supported by Schüco and hosted by the Royal Irish Academy of Music, explored the challenges and opportunities facing Irish cities, and what can they learn from each other and from best practice abroad.
Grafton Architects’ new study and social hub for Trinity College Cambridge will bring flexible learning, dining and event spaces to a historic riverside site, creating the College’s first new building within its central campus since the 1990s.
Simon Ronan of SRLA discusses the practice's regenerative approach to landscape architecture, the thinking behind NATIVE in West Cork, and why rewilding should be embedded in projects of every scale, from hospitality to public realm.
Brian Mallon, Director at Hawkins\Brown, tells AT where he believes the architect's role lies in solving the housing crisis in Ireland.
Ten years into practice, ALWA continue to refine a body of work shaped by restraint, craft and a sustained engagement with context. Jane Larmour, Mark Arigho and Patrick Wheeler reflect on formative projects, the one lesson all architecture students should learn, and the contemporary architects they are keeping a close eye on.
Cork-based fuinneamh workshop complete a family home in rural Country Clare that uses the architectural language of 20th century Irish farmhouses to create a spacious, bright and subtly quirky take on the 20th century Irish farmhouse.
Maccreanor Lavington's Erin Towsley sheds light on Belfast Harbour's Clarendon Wharf Residential Development, talking through the scheme's ten year phased development, and detailing its ambitious social and environmental sustainability targets.
We revisit Níall McLaughlin Architects’ International Rugby Experience in Limerick: a project that combines everyday public use with an international sporting experience to create a contemporary monument to the game of rugby and to Limerick itself.
AT catches up with HLM Architects' newly appointed Belfast Studio Director David Rooney. Using climate action, retrofit and Passivhaus as catalysts for Northern Ireland’s next chapter in architecture, Rooney explains how HLM Belfast is using people-centred, low-carbon design to deliver lasting civic and community impact.
