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.
The Director of CIVIC Ireland speaks to AT about the upcoming Dublin Social, on how regenerative design in Ireland is changing, and what the Regenerative Architecture Index means to CIVIC.
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.
Three years on from the completion of the Tropical Fruit Warehouse on Dublin's quayside, lead architect Eoin Flanagan reflects on the project's success – from an ambitious architectural vision to the specialised team at Schüco that made it possible.
Andrew Clancy, Director of Clancy Moore Architects, discusses how working across Ireland, the UK, and Switzerland shapes his approach to European architecture, and highlights the unique strengths and collaborative opportunities each context offers.
The winners of The 2026 LINA Writing Award discuss In Deep Trouble: The Trepça Mine, a project commissioned by the Irish Architecture Foundation and produced in collaboration with dpr-barcelona exploring the architecture of the Kosovan mine through it's lift shaft that reaches a depth of 850 metres providing access to a network of kilometres of tunnels.
Queen’s Business School, completed by TODD Architects in 2023, is a careful addition to a woodland campus setting in Belfast. Set beside Riddel Hall and its grounds, the building gathers teaching, study and social spaces around a central atrium, reflecting a growing emphasis on collaborative learning environments.
