Ireland Architecture
Architects in Northern Ireland
Patrick Bradley Architects is a RIBA / Multi Award Winning design led practice creating architecture throughout the UK and Ireland with offices both in Maghera, Northern Ireland and London. Patrick Bradley established the practice in 2008 and most recently has gained attention from the public after appearing on Channel 4’s Grand Designs and House of the Year. Subsequently the featured house ‘Grillagh Water’ designed by Patrick Bradley Architects has gone on to win several awards regionally and nationally. Since the practice was established, it has…
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Art and Architecture of Ireland is an authoritative and fully illustrated account of the art and architecture of Ireland from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. The e-version of Art and Architecture of Ireland is now available for free on jstor.org for public libraries and universities on the island of Ireland. The volumes explore all aspects of Irish art and architecture – from high crosses to installation art, from Georgian houses to illuminated manuscripts, from watercolours and sculptures to photography, oil paintings, video…
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The V&A houses one of the world s greatest collections of decorative arts, in such varied fields as ceramics, sculpture, portrait miniatures and photography. Among the highlights are the British Galleries 1500-1900, which are arranged chronologically to trace the history of British design from the reign of Henry V to that of Queen Victoria. The major names of each era are highlighted, from Chippendale to Morris, Adam to Mackintosh, and alongside the displays of furniture, textiles, dress, ceramics, glass, jewellery, prints, paintings and…
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The Heritage Card provides for free admission to all fee-paying State managed OPW Heritage Sites located throughout the country for one year from the date of first use (with the exception of Muckross Traditional Farms, Killarney). At certain locations, parking facilities and ancillary services are provided by other bodies or agencies. There may be a charge for the use of such services. Any such charges are separate to and are not covered by the Heritage Card. The cards cost as follows: Adult €25.00. Senior €20.00 (60 years and over). Student/Child…
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On the occasion of the 500-year anniversary of the first publication of Thomas More’s work ‘Utopia’, the theme for this year’s AAI 2nd Year week long architectural competition is ‘Utopia’. ‘Utopia is never realized and yet it is indispensable to stimulate change’. Henri Lefebvre (1991). The challenge is to chose any Utopian City Plan and analyse the social and design possibilities inherent in its underlying values. As More’s Utopia is structured as “Book I” and its contrast in “Book II”, the Task is to prepare a twin collage, or diptych, that represent…
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2001–2005 Location: London, GB Client: Private Client Project Status: Built This family house stands amongst dense residential streets in a busy part of West London. The constricted plot is shaped like a horse’s head, surrounded and overlooked by three taller buildings, and can only be reached by a carriage way through the facade of an adjacent Victorian terrace. The paradox of making a new building on a site of almost insuperable difficulty can only be explained by the will of the clients, and their determination to make a new home in this particular…
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Illustration by Matt Kenyon Thanks to its intrinsic time lag – the fact that a building commissioned in one era will come to be finished in another – architecture is the best place to see a curious nostalgia for the very recent past. Here you can observe a strange collective desire to pretend it s still 2007, and we aren t going through a crisis that challenges our economy of finance and property to the core. You can experience this in, gawky sheds aiming at the Bilbao effect in two of Britain s most impoverished cities; and perhaps most pointedly…
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Prehistoric architecture includes monumental structures such as Stonehenge, cliff dwellings in the Americas, and thatch and mud structures lost to time. 3, 050 BC to 900 BC Ancient Egypt In ancient Egypt, powerful rulers constructed monumental pyramids, temples, and shrines. Far from primitive, enormous structures such as the Pyramids of Giza were feats of engineering capable of reaching great heights. 850 BC to 476 AD Classical From the rise of ancient Greece until the fall of the Roman empire, great buildings were constructed according to precise…
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