Redevelopment of Hawkins House site hits new snagCity council planners query effect on Poolbeg Street area of proposed office complexWed Oct 05 2016 - 05:50
Rooms with a view could be the future of school designInchicore NS renovation and extension brings nature close to the classroomTue Oct 04 2016 - 00:00
Try it for size: could you live here?A mock-up two-bed apartment built in Cherrywood, Co Dublin, only slightly exceeds Alan Kelly’s revised minimum design guidelinesWed Sept 21 2016 - 14:30
Pressure builds on Dublin City Council over College Green planTraders’ lobby group opposes proposed changes to city-centre traffic flowsWed Sept 21 2016 - 06:45
Frank McDonald: Central Bank building should become a new library for DublinPlan to move Central Libary to former Coláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square misguidedWed Sept 14 2016 - 01:00
Frank McDonald : Coveney housing plan shows modest ambitionFrank McDonald casts a cold eye on this latest initiative and its chance of successWed Jul 20 2016 - 10:24
Are you ready for designer shoebox living?Well-designed small apartments can be a good thing for city living and make home-ownership a realistic prospectTue Jul 05 2016 - 16:00
Residents fighting to shape Phibsborough’s futureDesign review includes a revamped Dalymount park and redevelopment of the shopping centreThu Jun 23 2016 - 04:00
Some rural housing ‘could be unsaleable’President of Royal Institute of Architect says exemption of some one-off housing from statutory building regulations could have wider implicationsThu May 19 2016 - 05:30
‘There’s a connection between dying towns and no architects’RIAI president Carole Pollard wishes more public bodies, particularly county councils, placed a value on hiring architectsThu May 19 2016 - 01:00
Frank McDonald: Dublin’s character is threatened by high-rise plansCouncillors should oppose a city project that would put the capital’s human scale at riskMon May 16 2016 - 01:00
Time Dublin had a world-class food court – we have spacesCHQ a great food market? St Mary’s Lane and Iveagh Markets are also excellent candidatesSat May 07 2016 - 04:00
Grand Old Lady of St Stephen’s Green unveils her faceliftThe Shelbourne hotel is ready to face the next 100 years following a facade restorationSat Apr 23 2016 - 01:00
Rising from the dust: The reconstruction of O’Connell StreetThe heroic story of how O’Connell Street and adjoining areas were reconstructed in the aftermath of 1916 and the Civil WarSat Mar 26 2016 - 01:00
Spread of holiday lets must be stopped if we are to end the housing crisisLong-term tenants are being ejected only to see homes used for short-term rentalsThu Mar 24 2016 - 12:26
Surprise Moore Street judgment leaves Government in a quandaryAs the final battlefield of the 1916 Rising, it deserves its national monument designationTue Mar 22 2016 - 01:01
A townhouse or a tenement museum? Someone must decide, fastThe format of the Dublin tenement museum on Henrietta Street has not yet been decided, a year after the €1.5m project was announcedSat Mar 19 2016 - 05:45
The reconstruction of DublinDubliners were promised a sustainable city, with underground public transport and ‘world class’ public spaces. They got severe homelessness, traffic-choked suburbs, and a city with nobody in charge. Will economic recovery make the capital work better?Fri Mar 11 2016 - 13:00
George Redmond among most corrupt officials in Irish historySenior council official showed ill-disguised contempt for Dublin’s architectural heritageSat Feb 20 2016 - 01:00
Moore Street: Terms have already been agreed in battle for ‘Ireland’s Alamo’Easter Rising monument has long been delineated by planning authoritiesFri Jan 22 2016 - 01:00
Analysis: Minister dumbs down apartment guidelinesKelly denies rules on design will catapult Dublin and other cities to ‘shoebox living’Wed Dec 23 2015 - 01:00
Frank McDonald: White Paper on low-carbon energy future is pretty lameToo many actions are kicked to touch in the Minister for Energy’s blueprint documentThu Dec 17 2015 - 01:51
An Irishman’s Diary about solidarity and defiance in ParisA city facing down fearTue Dec 15 2015 - 01:01
Paris agreement ‘monumental success for the planet’Climate change strategy seen as beginning of the end of planet’s dependence on fossil fuelsMon Dec 14 2015 - 08:07
Cheering, hugs and tears as ‘universal agreement’ is reachedWhile the Kyoto Protocol only applied to 38 states, the Paris climate accord involves 195Mon Dec 14 2015 - 01:00
COP21 talks: Climate deal agreed by 195 statesAgreement adopted more than 24 hours after official end of fortnight-long conferenceSat Dec 12 2015 - 19:28
Climate deal reaction: activists say it marks end of fossil fuel eraCampaigners say COP21 agreement is the ‘floor, not the ceiling, for climate action’Sat Dec 12 2015 - 18:18
Paris climate deal: High on ambition, vague on detailSetting realistic price for carbon, the best way of cutting emissions, not in draft agreementFri Dec 11 2015 - 17:36
Activists promise to make leaders and industry feel the heatCOP21: Environmental campaigners planning week of action next MayFri Dec 11 2015 - 01:00
COP21: Protecting the Earth’s trees is key to any dealTropical rain forests are crucial to our effort to curb global temperature risesThu Dec 10 2015 - 01:00
Climate deal is in sight – if poorer countries promise not to sueRevised negotiating text is a measure of delegates’ progress at COP21 in ParisWed Dec 09 2015 - 22:22
Ireland ranked ‘12th best’ in world on climate challengeEurope ‘risks falling behind’ as other countries boost invest in renewables - surveyTue Dec 08 2015 - 16:28
Melting icebergs make no impact on climate change ‘skeptics’Obama accused of working to ‘communist’ agenda at denialist film premiéreMon Dec 07 2015 - 18:52
Climate talks are not worlds away from flooded homesCOP21: Subsidies for clearing ‘unwanted vegetation’ may be worsening storm damageMon Dec 07 2015 - 14:31
COP21: Aviation and shipping a climate law unto themselvesNo tax is paid worldwide on aircraft or ship fuel despite those sectors’ huge emissionsMon Dec 07 2015 - 01:00
Georgian Dublin: The Forces That Shaped the City: sordid reality of a grand eraThis marvellous book puts the focus on the grim lives of ordinary people in Georgian DublinSat Dec 05 2015 - 00:41
Financial sector must ‘adjust’ to climate riskCOP21: Former NY mayor Michael Bloomberg to chair global task forceFri Dec 04 2015 - 15:03
EU leaders urged to set deadline for closing coal-fired power stationsMoneypoint in Co Clare is Ireland’s largest single source of CO2Fri Dec 04 2015 - 13:41
Pacific islanders seek recognition as climate ‘refugees’Sea levels have risen by 20 cm over past century, COP21 toldThu Dec 03 2015 - 17:44
Aid for climate change damage a ‘red line issue’ for developing countriesChina joins 135 nations in denouncing EU/US attempts to attach conditions to fundingThu Dec 03 2015 - 17:23
EU denies Oxfam claims of being ‘sidelined’ in climate talksSummit given positive momentum by Obama and others, says US climate envoyThu Dec 03 2015 - 01:00
Water management pact agreed for drought-stricken nationsImproved water security linked to poverty reduction, UN climate conference hearsWed Dec 02 2015 - 18:02
It’s all in the detail: time for hardball talks on climate changeDraft text contains 1,617 instances of square-bracketed words, phrases and terms that have yet to be decidedWed Dec 02 2015 - 16:48
Over 500 institutions pledge to end fossil fuel investment19 French cities, including Paris, join global movement to divest shares in oil and gasWed Dec 02 2015 - 16:00
COP21: Emissions warning over planned coal-fired plantsAnalysis finds emissions would be 400% higher in 2030 if plants were to be builtWed Dec 02 2015 - 01:00
Major forest countries pledge to reverse deforestationEssential role forests play in long-term health of our planet recognisedWed Dec 02 2015 - 01:00
Divide between developed and developing nationsTension between the two central to debate at Paris climate conferenceTue Dec 01 2015 - 01:00
Anarchists throwing bottles set off Paris clashes with policeAcrid scent of tear gas pervades Place de la République in French capital on SundaySun Nov 29 2015 - 18:13
