Video: Stephen O’Malley, Civic
Nelly Greig2026-06-16T15:34:11+01:00Stephen O’Malley, Chief Executive of CIVIC, tells AT what surprised him most about our round table discussion, ‘From Infrastructure to Place’.
University of Limerick Student Centre
Nelly Greig2026-05-27T11:55:34+01:00Cotter & Naessens' long awaited Student Centre at The University of Limerick opens as a place of conversation, community and exchange, operating somewhere between public forum and student living room.
On the Bay
Nelly Greig2026-05-14T17:18:22+01:00Set between a traditional shoreline cottage and the Atlantic edge of Galway Bay, ALWA’s low-slung pavilion extension balances exposure and shelter through a restrained architecture that carefully recalibrates the relationship between house, landscape and sea.
Quayside Watersports Centre
Nelly Greig2026-02-26T12:39:08+00:00On the banks of the River Liffey, Dublin's first public watersports centre by Urban Agency, transforms a stretch of the North Quay into an accessible and resilient public space, recasting the river as an active and usable asset to the city.
O House
Nelly Greig2026-02-20T17:20:24+00:00Lawrence and Long Architects reimagine traditional approaches to constrained mew sites by carving an internal courtyard from a square, timber structure, creating a house nested around a garden: carefully balancing privacy and openness in a tight urban setting.
Dispatches from Donegal: Pasparakis Friel
Nelly Greig2026-02-26T12:45:18+00:00Based in rural Donegal, but shaped by decades of life and work across Europe, Sosie Pasparakis and Ronan Friel reflect on listening as a design tool, the quiet intelligence of a rural practice, and how memory, landscape and craft meet in projects that sit lightly and thoughtfully in their landscape.
Belfast Grand Central Station
Nelly Greig2026-02-20T17:25:39+00:00Belfast Central Station by John McAslan + Partners opens to the public, supporting 20 million journeys annually as the largest integrated transport hub in Northern Ireland.
Reflections: Chapel of Reconciliation
Nelly Greig2025-12-16T10:45:57+00:00John Pardey revisits de Blacam & Meagher’s Chapel of Reconciliation at Knock – a landmark of 20th century Irish Architecture – tracing its pilgrimage roots, profound materiality, and overarching influence on a new generation of Irish architects.
Sea Gardens
Nelly Greig2026-02-20T17:27:54+00:00Howells’ 40-acre Sea Gardens masterplan in Bray, County Wicklow, is set to deliver 1,200 new homes alongside shops, cafés and parks. With phase one now complete, project lead Daniel Mulligan reflects on what this former golf course will bring to Bray’s future – and how the team approached such a sensitive town extension.
Five minutes with… OGU Architects
Nelly Greig2026-02-20T17:23:57+00:00AT catches up with Rachel O'Grady and Chris Upson to find out what's next for Belfast-based OGU Architects, and hear about their use of demountable structures to trial urban change, engaging communities in their city's future.
Harcourt Terrace Primary School
Nelly Greig2025-11-21T12:25:42+00:00tún Architects have designed a new primary school in the southside of Dublin that introduces a new kind of flexible learning to inner city schools. AT hears from David Jameson and Rose Bonner, co-founders of tún alongside Paul Fox, about what they've been up to since.
Dispatches from Dublin: John Tuomey, O’Donnell & Tuomey
Jason Sayer2026-02-20T17:21:33+00:00From the AT Schüco Dublin City Dialogue event, John Tuomey, who was recently awarded the RIAI Gandon Medal lifetime achievement award alongside Sheila O’Donnell, reflects on the barriers facing emerging Irish architectural talent, the need to build true neighbourhoods rather than unit numbers, and why he remains optimistic about the future of Irish architecture.