COP21: Will it make any difference to climate change?After two decades of failed negotiations, can the UN summit in Paris save the world?Sat Nov 28 2015 - 02:00
No guarantee that Longboat Quay will be the last debacleThe flats were signed off on by an architect employed by the developerFri Oct 02 2015 - 01:00
Jaded 1970s office building gets a new lease of lifeFortress-like exterior replaced by more welcoming steps in smooth concreteWed Sept 30 2015 - 09:30
Frank McDonald: Why ‘Dart Underground’ should not be cast asideMinisters seems focused on the price, but this could regenerate the rail networkTue Sept 22 2015 - 04:35
The Digital Hub: the new Googleland alternative?Since the project’s inception, close to 200 companies have progressed through the Digital Hub, generating thousands of skilled jobsThu Sept 10 2015 - 05:00
Why Cork should resist attempts to merge councilsFormer mayors are right: merger would seal Cork’s fate as a second-tier cityMon Aug 17 2015 - 05:00
Analysis: Suitable home found for National Children’s HospitalBuilding height reduced from 16 floors to three by moving from Mater to St James’sMon Aug 10 2015 - 18:45
Frank McDonald: Kilkenny is a city divided over bridge and access scheme‘Those attending this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival should know they are visiting a wounded place’Wed Aug 05 2015 - 04:30
Council weighs balance of city centre shops and restaurantsAs cafe culture booms, Dublin City Council is reviewing ‘primacy of retail’ planning policyWed Jul 08 2015 - 01:09
Check out Dublin’s coolest new rentalsThe space above the new H&M store on College Green has been converted into luxury rental apartments from €3,000pmWed Jun 17 2015 - 12:00
Frank McDonald: Funding cuts at root of Russborough dilemmaCuts in heritage sector grants are leading to the sale of valuable Beit collection worksMon Jun 15 2015 - 01:00
Frank McDonald: Time for ESB to reinstate Georgian houses on Fitzwilliam Street?‘Whereas some Fianna Fáil ministers seemed to regard Georgian Dublin as a legacy of the “800 years of oppression”, outraged conservationists likened what was planned as the equivalent of tearing up the Book of Kells’Wed Jun 03 2015 - 17:41
Frank McDonald: Another bonus for bungalow-builders in changes to regulationsMinisters fail to address ‘bungalow blitz’Wed May 13 2015 - 00:02
Irish architects pipped at post for premier prizePoland’s Philharmonic Hall in Szczecin wins Mies van der Rohe prizeSun May 10 2015 - 10:06
A custom-made home with hand-picked neighboursIt sounds too idealistic, but this German development proves that community spirit and sustainable design can be successfulThu Apr 23 2015 - 01:00
Cork’s small problem: the real issue for the real capital is its size‘Any notion that Cork is in some sense a “chosen land” is preposterous’Tue Apr 07 2015 - 13:52
How compromise hit plans for Skibbereen’s arts centreThe architects of Uillinn in west Cork won an international competition but were dismissed after the financial crisis hit. Has their vision survived in the finished project?Tue Mar 10 2015 - 09:00
Britain’s ‘greenest’ building - reed all about itUsing reed and straw for cladding ‘captures the spirit’ of a project at the University of East AngliaMon Feb 23 2015 - 01:30
Why new attempts to curb busking amplification won’t work‘Many students are unable to properly concentrate on their studies due to the constant excessive noise levels coming from street performers’Mon Feb 09 2015 - 00:01
From dereliction to boom: Dublin through the yearsRetiring from his beat covering the capital for The Irish Times, Frank McDonald looks back on the city’s evolution from dereliction to boomtown – and finds that Dubliners still have no idea how to treat their citySat Jan 31 2015 - 06:00
Passive house in Blackrock gets Pat Cox’s voteFormer European Parliament president Pat Cox and his wife, Cathy, took the nuclear option and replaced their Blackrock home with a near-zero-energy houseThu Jan 29 2015 - 07:00
Climate expert Michael Mann takes ‘Hockey Stick’ to scepticsUS climatologist to deliver public lecture at TCD this eveningMon Jan 19 2015 - 01:00
An Irishman’s Diary on urban planning and the 1914 Civic ExhibitionSigns of hope amid urban squalorTue Jan 13 2015 - 01:01
Can carbon capture and storage save the world?A range of techno-fixes are turning climate-damaging emissions into ingredients in energy production and manufacturing processesThu Jan 08 2015 - 06:00
Climate change road map after marathon negotiationsSleepless delegates end Lima talks with foundations for major agreement next yearSun Dec 14 2014 - 21:35
Climate-change deal helped by Peruvian persistenceUN climate-change conference in Lima looked as if it would fail until superb diplomacy ensuedSun Dec 14 2014 - 19:42
Frantic final talks to salvage Lima climate conferencePeruvian environment minister urges climate negotiators not to leave empty-handedSat Dec 13 2014 - 12:22
World leaders urged to act now on climate changeProspects for planet ‘stark’ unless essential action taken, UN conference in Lima is toldFri Dec 12 2014 - 15:55
John Kerry warns of ‘moral failure’ at climate conferenceUS secretary of state urges ambitious deal in powerful speech to UN delegates in LimaThu Dec 11 2014 - 21:23
Hopes for Lima climate conference unravelNegotiated text ‘balloons’ out of control with amendments rendering agreement difficultThu Dec 11 2014 - 19:31
Ireland yet to pledge money for Green Climate FundMinister Alex White tells Lima conference last year’s €34m is likely to be matchedThu Dec 11 2014 - 01:03
Driving the car out of Grafton Street to create a calmer quarterA ‘more pedestrian-centred streetscape’ planned by council for Dublin shopping areaWed Dec 10 2014 - 01:18
Lima climate talks ‘must deliver’, says Ban Ki-moonUN secretary-general calls on rich countries to pledge money to UN Green Climate FundTue Dec 09 2014 - 22:24
Lima climate talks hear big polluters should pay for damageAnalysis shows 65% of emissions can be traced to just 90 entitiesTue Dec 09 2014 - 01:00
Rainforest activist found murdered in EcuadorJosé Isidro Tendetza Antún had planned to attend UN climate conference in LimaMon Dec 08 2014 - 17:20
Daunting tasks at UN climate change conference in LimaDivisions between developing and developed countries over deal on environmentMon Dec 08 2014 - 07:57
Huge cost of adapting to climate change revealedUN body Unep says costs for developing countries may be treble current estimatesFri Dec 05 2014 - 19:28
Climate funds financed coal power plants in IndonesiaNGOs call for tougher rules to stop money going to environmentally harmful projectsFri Dec 05 2014 - 01:00
Global warming makes 2014 likely to be hottest on recordLima forum hears the WMO stress that ‘there is no standstill in global warming’Thu Dec 04 2014 - 01:00
Amazon forests at risk from both legal and illegal activitiesLima climate conference hears 20 per cent of tropical forests across Amazonia are in perilWed Dec 03 2014 - 07:28
Environmentally-aware TaiwanAn Irishman’s Diary: From the top of the world’s tallest green buildingTue Dec 02 2014 - 01:04
Climate change warnings precede negotiations in LimaEnvironmentalists and poorer countries insist any deal must be binding and fairMon Dec 01 2014 - 01:00
Europe’s industrial air pollution cost at least €59bn in 2012European Environment Agency says true figure could be as high as €189bnWed Nov 26 2014 - 12:21
Progress was always going to come down to world’s two largest economiesAnalysis: UN climate chief Christiana Figueres says clear signal on emissions sent to private sector and financial marketsWed Nov 12 2014 - 17:51
Jochen Gerz makes friends with Germany’s ‘enemies’The German-born artist has transformed a ‘hostile’ war memorial in Bochum into an inspiring projectMon Nov 10 2014 - 01:00
Frank McDonald: Why I love Dún Laoghaire libraryExceptionally well built, it is a model of environmentally conscious designSat Nov 08 2014 - 01:00
Architecture: Not everything built in boom was rubbishA new book showcases Dublin’s best buildings of the last 25 yearsThu Nov 06 2014 - 01:00
Architects council members resign over ‘governance failings’Six departures from RIAI linked to opposition to amendment of Building Control ActTue Nov 04 2014 - 22:00
An Taisce critical of Coalition draft transport strategyEnvironmental trust critical of blueprint that fails to ‘meet imperative of climate science’Tue Nov 04 2014 - 15:00
IPCC: Cut emissions to zero by 2100 to avoid worst impact of climate changeUN scientists call for unrestricted use of coal, oil and gas to be phased out by end of centuryMon Nov 03 2014 - 09:19
