mi tour guide #1 dublin

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Dublin

publication date: March 2013editor: Emmett Scanlon, Dublin

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photo: Coppinger Row

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Coppinger Row.

AddressCoppinger Row 0D02 DublinIrelandhttp://coppingerrow.com

. A dark room on a busy pedestrian street is elegantly fitted out ina kind of collage of hard and soft materials making for a fresh andimmediately relaxing room. Architecture Republic enjoy this kindof work.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

2011.

Architect, Interiorarchitect

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Architecture Republic.

Contributed by.

EmmettScanlon.

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photo: Marie Louise Halpenny

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The Children's Rooms .

AddressGrafton Street 90D02 DublinIreland

. The client required a series of bespoke rooms for boys, girls, andbabies clothing, a gifting area and a room for shoes. Oak parquetis used to loosely delineate the areas and a family of furnituremade in oak and laser cut corian inhabit the rooms and providedisplay areas for clothes. New drawings by artist Nigel Peakewere commissioned to tell the story of the shop and the city andto provide playful fun for the children as they roam the rooms.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

2-2011. Floor area/size.

150 m².


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CAST architecture.

Client.

Brown Thomas Group.

Contributed by.

EmmettScanlon.


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photo: DesignGoat

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Brother Hubbard.

AddressCapel Street 153D01 DublinIrelandhttp://www.wearedesigngoat.com/brotherhubbard.html

. A tiny café about to expand, it is thoroughly and elegantlydesigned and fitted out by Designgoat one of Dublin's best of thenewly emergent -design class. Warm ash wood and clever use ofcustom-made powder coated steel is inventive and quietlyexciting, subtly supporting the culinary ethos of the café. Thestrong graphic branding indicates the new ?total design? conceptof Dublin's new social rooms.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

2012.

Interior architect.

DesignGoat. Client.

Brother Hubbard.

Contributed by.

EmmettScanlon.


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photo: DesignGoat

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3FE Coffee House .

AddressGrand Canal Street Lower 32D02 DublinIrelandhttp://www.wearedesigngoat.com/3fe.html

. A large sunny room hard on the street in the south of city, closeto lots of apartments and offices is home to the flagship 3fecoffee shop which now also has a barista school upstairs. Theaesthetic is raw, basic, bare, exposed coloured lighting wires andbulbs, and scaffolding poles and elbows and plywood being usedto custom make tables and benches inside and out.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

2012.

Interior architect.

DesignGoat. Client.

3FE.

Contributed by.

EmmettScanlon.


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photo: . photo: Marie Louise Halpenny.

photo: Marie Louise Halpenny

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. How to get thereBus 37, 39 from South Quays in Dublin to Aughrim Street. LuckyLane is located at the rear of Aughrim Street.

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Lucky Lane.

AddressLucky Lane 707 DublinIreland

. Two terraced mews houses, and a further two underconstruction, mark the beginnings of a new street on an existinglane in the dense inner city area of Stoneybatter, Dublin. Thenew mews houses are at the interface of artisan terraced housingof Carnew Street and larger terraced townhouses of AughrimStreet. In conversation with the existing returns of the artisandwellings onto the lane and the larger terraced townhouses to therear, a 'double return' mews typology is developed by employing areturn to both the front and rear of the new mews houses. Themassing of the houses, solid brick versus translucent screen andsliding door, begins an alternating rhythm onto the lane. Arepeating bracket-like party wall of light polychromatic stockbrick establishes the recurring structure and enclosure for thenew houses. In more private quarters on the ground floorfair-faced blockwork is employed.

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Project is not public!.

Completion.


108 m².

Architect.

A2 ARCHITECTS. Structural engineer.

David Maher Consulting Engineer. Contractor.

Multibuild Ltd. Client.

Peter Carroll.

Contributed by.

A2.


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photo: Paul Tierney

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House and Studio.

AddressNun's Lane, Killester 1D05 DublinIreland

. Situated in the rear garden of a suburban housing estate, a houseand studio were designed for the site in addition to threecourtyards: a morning, midday and evening courtyard. Thetopography of the site has been manipulated to create a threestory house including a basement and a double height studio. Aconsistent pallete of materials was proposed: light, exposedconcrete [internally], stainless steel, iroko floors and joinery,absolute black granite, Kilkenny limestone, render and terrazzowith basalt and mother of pearl aggregate.

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8-2007.


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Donal HIckey Architects.

Client.

Donal Hickey.

Contributed by.

EmmettScanlon.


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photo: Verena Henze .photo: Verena Henze

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photo: Verena Henze

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A house.

AddressCambridge Road Dublin 6 DublinIreland

. Concerns of establishing a relationship with the garden andmaximising daylight penetration in a North facing building whereEast & West facades are blank, dictated the organisation offamily rooms at ground and first floor connected by a narrowvoid. This layout is expressed architecturally as a 'slipped tube' ofspace, coded materially in sandblasted concrete, stratified fromfront to rear, divided programmatically with joinery boxes. Astrong visual and spatial connection is established between thekitchen / dining room at ground level and the study on the firstfloor capitalising on day lighting and glimpsed views. This movecreates diagonal visual relationships that extend spatialawareness to the limits of the depth, breadth and length of thehouse. Arranged around this conceptually manipulated tube, arethe less public rooms: garage, utility room and WC at groundlevel and children?s bedrooms and bathroom at first floor.

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265 m².

Architect.

FKL Architects. Structural engineer.

CORA.

Contributed by.

P_Kelly.


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photo: Alice Clancy . photo: Alice Clancy.

photo: Alice Clancy

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. How to get thereNorthbrook Lane is on the left hand side as you travel downNorthbrook Road from Ranelagh.

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Hedge House.

AddressNorthbrook Ln Dublin 6 DublinIreland

. The new house is located on a wedge-shaped site on a Ranelaghmews lane. The clients wanted a large family house with agenerous garden. The house is located at the eastern end and isentered from a courtyard open to the lane way. The privet hedgeis retained to give privacy to the garden. A new wall and carentrance are made at the western end with a path connectingback to the house. The house is a very low energy (A-Rated)construction with a timber-frame clad in white bricks. The bricksare 50mm high, giving a denser and more horizontal quality to thewalls. Iroko windows and iroko cladding are set flush with theouter face of the brickwork. The mono-pitch roof is finished inzinc, while the flat roof has a sedum covering. The houseincorporates a Heat Recovery Ventilation System and a RainwaterHarvesting System that is used for the lavatories and washingmachine.

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253 m².

Architect.

GKMP Architects. Client.

Private.

Contributed by.

Michael_Pike.


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photo: Alice Clancy .

photo: Alice Clancy.

photo: Alice Clancy

Opening hoursPlease respect the privacy of the inhabitants, and only visit thishouse from the public street.

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Mews House.

AddressMorehampton Rd 7 DublinIreland

. A renovated Victorian House for the parents sharing a rear gardenwith a new Mews house for one of the daughters. The nowgrown-up family recently moved out of their long-term familyhome and wanted these new homes to maintain some sense ofcontinuity with their former lives. 2 Intertwined themes runthrough both homes, those of memory and tectonic expression.Their social rituals are given tangible form within the design.Typical domestic objects are distorted in material and scale toform a psychological landscape specific to the occupants.Construction is expressed directly as the finished product imbuingthese two new homes with a powerful, domestic character. TheMews house’s facade take it's key from the Flemish-bondbrickwork walls of the Victorian House, seeking a kind ofconstructional context with its older brother. The unique bondsare the result of ‘separating’ the Flemish bond into 2 layers, andconceptually situating the home in the space between these 2layers.

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2009.

Architect.

TAKA architects.

Contributed by.

TAKA_architects.


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photo: Ros Kavanagh

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Mews Houses.

AddressWaterloo Lane 80d04 DublinIreland

. The site is located to the rear of Leeson Street, Dublin. On arestricted inner city site measuring 10m by 30m, the projectconsists of two 160sqm, three bedroom houses. The houses weredesigned as having an open plan ground floor, above which thesleeping accommodation hangs, leaving voids between the roomsto light the living areas below.

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Architect, Interiorarchitect, Urban planner

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Grafton architects.

Client.

Private.

Contributed by.

EmmettScanlon.


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photo: Ros Kavanagh .

photo: Ros Kavanagh

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Rathmines Square.

AddressWilliams Park D06 DublinIreland

. The project is located on the site of the old single storey poolbuilding. The object of the design was to create mixed usebuilding that would consolidate the centre of Rathmines, makingit a more complete and effective piece of 'town'. The building,which is generally 5 floors in height, creates clearly definedpublic space, a linear Promenade space along Rathmines Roadand a landscaped park at the rear of the building on WilliamsPark. With a swimming pool on street level, there is a 32×19mmulti-purpose Sports Hall is located at first floor level. Above theleisure facilities are located 46 apartment units, grouped aroundand accessed from a shared first floor podium/garden.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

2010.

Architect, Interiorarchitect, Urban planner

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Donnelly Turpin.

Contributed by.

EmmettScanlon.


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photo: Paul Tierney . photo: Paul Tierney.

photo: Paul Tierney

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Housing Reuben Street.

AddressReuben Street 8 DublinIreland

. The pace at which certain parts of the city of Dublin are beingdeveloped is aggressively challenging the spatial and physicalmemory of Dubliners. This is certainly true in the Liberties, oneof the oldest parts of the city and the location of this housingscheme by FKL. Their strategy was to design two restrained,L-shaped red brick blocks and sit them down on a grey stone andmosaic tile plinth. This distinct separation of elements allows thislandmark to do what others often miss - to operatesimultaneously in the local and wider urban context. The solid,muscular masonry forms ensure this building is seen from aconsiderable distance, always maintaining a clear, non-reflectiveclean silhouette. FKL have made a seminal contribution toDublin's discussion about how to make a collection of homes thatstill offer individual expression.

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Completion.

2006.

Architect.

FKL Architects. Client.

Diamond Leather.

Contributed by.

Emmett_Scanlon.


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photo: Matthias Hanzlik .

photo: Matthias Hanzlik.

photo: Matthias Hanzlik

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Timberyard Social Housing.

AddressCork Street Dublin 8 DublinIreland

. The Timberyard development consists of a new social housingscheme comprising of 47 dwellings and a street level communityfacility. It is situated in the historic Liberties area of Dublin,fronting on to the Coombe By-Pass. The site layout completesexisting and fragmented city blocks. It focuses on a public space,turning the former timberyard into a communicative space. Theseven-storey scale along Cork Street staggers and slopes down tothree storeys to match the smaller scale of the existing houses tothe north of the site. Materials make references to thesurrounding, red brick-dominated neighbourhood and the historyof the site as a timberyard. Concrete is introduced as anadditional material. The unites provide private open space in theform of private gardens, roof terraces and balconies cut into thebuilding volume. A small Marian grotto that previously stoodoutside the site can be now find in a short pedestrian passage.

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Completion.

2009.

Architect.

O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects. Services engineer.

Buro Happold. Structural engineer.

Downes Associates. Contractor.

Townlink Construction. Client.

Dublin City Council.

Contributed by.

Matthias_Hanzlik.


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photo: Naomi Schiphorst .

photo: Naomi Schiphorst.

photo: Naomi Schiphorst

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Department of Finance.

AddressMerrio Row 7-9 DublinIreland

. This new contemporary office building sits in a highly significantposition in the city. The fundamental concept of building isrooted in its immediate urban context, relating to St. Stephen’sGreen, the Hugeunot Cemetery and the 18th century Georgianstreetscape. The building respects the existing street line andmakes formal reference to the tradition of set-back and entrancedetailing of Dublin's great historic buildings and squares.

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Completion.

2007.

Architect.

Grafton architects. Client.

Office of Public Works.

Contributed by.

Naomi.


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photo: IMMA .

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IMMA at Earslfort Terrace.

AddressEarlsfort Terrace 00D02 DublinIrelandhttp://imma.ie

. This state-owned building is now enjoying something of a rebirthwith its tectonically memorable corridors and variously-sizedrooms being used for art and architecture exhibitions on a fairlyregular basis. The building has been left untouched, completewith the patina and traces of years of occupation and use byUniversity College Dublin. It is currently home to the Irish Museumof Modern Art.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

1865.

Architect.

Office of Public Works.

Contributed by.

EmmettScanlon.


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photo: Superbass .

photo: J. Nestorius

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Busáras.

AddressStore Street D1 DublinIrelandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%C3%A1ras

. The national bus terminal of Ireland was designed by MichaelScott and his team of young architects and designers between1945 and 1953. It was built against a background of publicopposition which centred on the external appearance, functionand excessive cost - over £1,000,000 before completion in 1953.Simultaneously loathed by some of the populace but loved byarchitectural purists, the building was designed in anInternational Modern style between. A number of the originalfixtures and fittings designed by Scott still exist, includingterrazzo floor tiles, and large timber wall panels.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

1953.

Architect.

Scott Tallon Walker Architects. Client.

Bus Éireann.

Contributed by.

tba.


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photo: Ros Kavanagh

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Extension of Scoil Mhuire Ógh.

AddressCrumlin Road 00D12 DublinIreland

. This extension of Scoil Mhuire Ógh (Loreto Senior Primary School)faces a busy road with a varied and formally confused contextaround it. The concrete and timber building asserts itself,identifying itself as a civic building from the start. The austereconcrete is softened by the honey wood, while the interior is fullof light and spatial intrigue, making for a very satisfactory andexciting learning space.

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Completion.

2011.

Architect.

Mary Laheen Architects.

Contributed by.

EmmettScanlon.


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photo: MCCULLOUGH MULVINARCHITECTS

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The Long Room Hub.

AddressFront Square, Trinity College 00D02 DublinIreland

. The Long Room Hub is a space for thinking, for making soaringlinkages, and for sharing the unique collections of the Long Roomat Trinity College Dublin. The site of the project is in FellowsSquare, at the heart of the College; the small rectangular form -four storeys high with tall rooflights penetrating the volume toform shafts of light. The building perches on the end of the ArtsBlock, closing the nearby square and framing the prospect toFront Square. The context is challenging, and the architects havemade a clearly stated intervention in the context.

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Completion.

2011.

Architect.

McCullough Mulvin Architects.

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EmmettScanlon.


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photo: Alice Clancy

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Additions to the Church of St Georgeand St Thomas

.AddressCathal Brugha Street 00D01 DublinIreland

. An inner-city parish needed more space for meetings, classes,children's playrooms and other support spaces, plus a clearer linkbetween inside and the piazza outside. The intervention is at thefront of the church, built of solid dark walnut and organized insuch a way that it draws you into the church before you realizeit's there. The interior of the rooms are lined in cork, making themquiet rooms in this sacred space. Light fittings and door handlesdesigned by the architects make this a thoroughly completedesign.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

2008.


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Clancy Moore.

Contributed by.

EmmettScanlon.


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photo: Alice Clancy

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Landside Bar.

AddressDublin Airport 00D13 DublinIreland

. The Landside Bar and Café in the new terminal at Dublin airportis an 84-mm, oak-veneered plywood deformed grid shellrendered as a baldachin over bar and server. It stands upon threestainless steel shoes on the limestone floor. Murno glass hangsover the limestone bar. The snug is excavated as a series ofparallel vaults with service strips between. These oak-veneeredvaults are slot-perforated to achieve a smoke reservoir. You canonly encounter it as you leave Dublin, but it is worth the trip.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

2011.

Architect, Artist, Interiorarchitect

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De Paor Architects.

Contributed by.

EmmettScanlon.


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