Exhibition Runs: Open Daily Friday 24 November – Friday 1 December inclusive (closed Sunday 26 November)

With over 30 years’ experience in the creative industry, John Redmond (currently Creative Director for the Brown Thomas Group) embarks on his 2017 art exhibition Disc-O. Disc-O draws its name from the artist’s love of clean lines, discs and circles and is inspired by his travels to Asia, in particular Japan. Colour has always defined John’s work and Disc-O explores a warm and vibrant inspired palette that has a particular emotional resonance for the artist.

Disc-O will open to the public at the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, (8 Merrion Square, Dublin 2), on Friday 24 November 2017 and run until Friday 1st of December. His first exhibition (Balancing Act) was a sell-out in November 2016 and demonstrates the artist’s exuberant sense of colour and geometric precision.

Exhibition Contact: Clodagh Hannon, disc0contemporary@gmail.com | 086 852 1222

PR Contact: Caitlin Shea, cshea@kennedyprandbrand.ie | 01 4762000

PLACE is delighted to be presenting the third annual Open House Belfast Architecture & Engineering Festival from 27 – 29 October which opens up some of the city’s most interesting and exciting buildings and spaces for you to experience, free of charge.

The aim of the festival is to highlight and celebrate well designed architecture and engineering in the city, and engage with the public, to initiate discussion about the impact of good design in our lives.

This year the festival has been extended to include a third day, spreading out the programme and allowing more time to get to more events.

PLACE have organised the programme into three categories; Buildings, Engineering Projects and Special Events. Some of our favourite buildings are returning to the programme, such as; Transport House, The former Belfast Telegraph building and The Strand Arts Centre while engineering projects will include; The Lagan Weir and Tunnel and Translink’s train maintenance and training facility.

Open House Belfast are showcasing some really innovative new developments like; Cullingtree Meadows Dementia Care Facility and Ormeau Baths entrepreneurial hub, and we have secured access to grand and iconic buildings like; The former Bank of Ireland on Royal Avenue and Laganview House.  Some architects and designers will invite you into their offices, studios and workshops to see how they work, and our special events will include accessing the heights of the Lanyon building at Queen’s University to see the conservation brick work they are undertaking, and a walk around North Belfast’s ‘Cultural Corridor’.

Booking goes live on Friday 20 October. To see the full programme visit www.openhousebelfast.org.

This year sees the return of the sixth annual festival of architecture Open House Limerick weekend from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th of October. The launch reception will be hosted in Ormston House Cultural Resource Centre on Patrick Street at 6pm.  This will be followed by Richard Harris Film Festival Screenings in St Munchin’s Church, King’s Island, 8pm – 9pm.

This years theme is “Architecture is Story”. Through what we create, we communicate: who we are, our intentions and our aspirations—are we creative, innovative, considerate, open? We capture our moment in time, our understanding of and investment in the environment we create. The shapes and materials we choose to construct and furnish our built environment with tell the evolving stories of the people that live in it and live with it.

Day 1 of the programme includes 18 building tours including a tour of Sarsfield Barracks, the Limerick Sailor’s Home, the Culture House (2 Pery Square), Bishops’ Palace & St Munchin’s church & graveyard |(Pre-book only), the Limerick Docks taking in the Ranks Silo, Bannytyne Mill, the Dock Clock as well as the Dock itself (Pre-Book Only). Day 2 focuses on building tours in the County including the University of Limerick campus including the Medical School by Grafton Architects.

There are also OpenEd events for children such as ‘Opening Places’ an art installation with performances by Caelan Bristow, Mary Conroy and Kristyn Fontanella and an ‘Ar-Kid-Tecture’ tour led by architect Seán Collins and OpenSpace with a Limerick Regeneration tour by bus led by planner Sarah Newell starting at Merchant’s Quay at 12noon. OpenMinds on the Saturday night at 8pm in Narrative 4, 58 O’Connell Street features a panel discussion on Limerick-born architect Andy Devane to mark the centinary of his birth with Architectural Critic Shane O’Toole, Architect Peter Carroll (A2 Architects) and Architecture Ireland Deputy Editor Emma Gilleece.

Exhibitions include Open Photo/Story Board a photo display on Ellen Street, celebrating the rich architecture in Limerick and AD100: Andy Devane Centenary, a celebration of Limerick-born architect Andy Devane (1917- 2017) in Narrative 4 , 58 O’Connell Street, kindly supported by GBM.

All building tours, visits, walking tours, talks and children’s workshops are FREE. For more information on the programme visit http://www.openhouselimerick.ie or email Festival Co-ordinator Eimear Redmond at info@openhouselimerick.ie.

Exhibition Run: until Sunday 1st October 2017

Venue : Powerscourt Townhouse Gallery, 59 South William Street, Dublin 2

Stephen Tierney’s exhibition, Landscapes of War, is war photography with a difference. A series of black & white and colour photographs exploring the collecting and archiving of war memorabilia will be exhibited until Sunday 1st October at Powerscourt Townhouse Gallery.

Creating Landscapes of War, photographer and architect Stephen Tierney used both old WWll aerial reconnaissance lenses and contemporary digital methods to document part of the remarkable Casey family’s multi-generational tradition of collecting militaria. Their family home on Fishamble street, one of the oldest houses in Dublin, is the site of a collection representing a pre-second world war notion of celebrating the honour of military service; the colours, regiments, histories, sacrifices and characters associated with military tradition.

Choosing from among the collection’s 50 cannonballs, Tierney photographed these unique spheres that span more than two centuries of cannon warfare – from the Siege of Waterford to the Crimean War; including projectiles from the Battle of Waterloo and the American Civil War’s Siege of Vicksburg. Depending on how they were made, and the environment in which they have aged, they have all weathered differently; in detail they become visually landscapes of war, partly iron, partly battlefield.

Stephen Tierney studied Art History and History at UCD and Rome before Architecture at University College London and in Los Angeles. Landscapes of War is his third project that examines aspects of collecting and archiving. Stephen shares an architecture and landscape design practice with his wife Nicola – Tierney Haines Architects.

www.tierneyhaines.com

This month will see the third annual Open House Cork weekend running from 29 September to 1 October, 2017. Open House is a design festival which runs in 36 cities across the world, celebrating the best architecture each city has to offer. The public are invited to take part in a series of talks, tours, and exhibitions, held in buildings across Leeside, which will showcase the rich and varying architecture of Cork. All of the events are free to attend.

Explore some of Cork’s finest buildings, new and old, including: St. Angela’s College, Crown Park Villa, Barrett’s Buildings, Triskel Arts Centre, Pairc Uí Chaoimh and Nano Nagle Place. Other special programmed events include a tour of the grounds of University College Cork by O’Donnell and Tuomey Architects, a walk along the city’s quays led by Tom Spalding, an architectural pub trail, a sketching tour on MacCurtain Street, a history tour of the Ford factory, and much, much more.

This year Open House Cork will celebrate the theme ‘The Changing City’, addressing the varying nature of the city as a hub for growing and evolving architecture. Open House hopes to reveal more of the adaptive environment of the city through talks about new spaces, urban interventions, and how the city is moving forward architecturally.

Join Open House Cork as they showcase the wealth and breadth of Irish architecture, from the splendour of Georgian Cork to the breathtaking contemporary spaces and places created by national and international architectural practices. All events and tours are open to the public, and admission is free of charge. The full programme is available at www.openhousecork.ie.

Events include: CCAE Masters Exhibition ‘​Athens: Peripheral[c]ity’

An exhibition by the masters students of the Cork Centre for Architectural Education (CCAE). The focus is on the idea and complex conditions associated with the ‘peripheral’, and looks to question how this term might be understood conceptually in order to define the relationship between Athens and its adjacent territories – smaller towns, its own Port City-Piraeus and the Greek Islands. Date: Saturday 30th September, 10:00 – 17:00. Location: Cork Centre for Architectural Education, 9/10 Copley Street

Open House Cork is presented by the Open House Cork Committee in partnership with The Irish Architecture Foundation and in association with Cork City Council and The Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland. Open House Cork is part of the Open House Worldwide Family, which includes 36 Open House Festivals around the world.

Twitter: @OpenHouseCork #OHCork

Facebook: www.facebook.com/OpenHouseCork

Instagram: www.instagram.com/OpenHouseCork

Volunteering: http://www.openhousecork.ie/be-part-of-it/

The UCD School of Architecture and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are pleased to announce the launch of The Metals Exhibition, Monday 11 September at 6:45 pm. The Metals Exhibition showcases selected work from seven graduates of UCD’s Masters of Architecture programme 2017. The projects explore the potential inhabitation of The Metals from Dalkey Quarry to Dún Laoghaire Harbour. These range from artists’ studios to a local recycling centre on the fringes of the railway line, a Camphill Community garden scheme and a co-housing project on sites in the gardens of existing houses backing on to The Metals, a project for modular emergency housing on the edge of Dalkey Quarry, and two projects on the harbour – a proposal for a public space on Carlisle Pier and a new harbourmaster’s office beside the Commissioners of Irish Lights Headquarters. A tour from Dalkey Quarry to the Lexicon discussing The Metals and the students projects will take place on Sunday the 15th of October as part of Open House Dublin.

2017 is the sixth year of Open House Limerick, with this years theme Architecture is Story.

Through what we create, we communicate: who we are, our intentions and our aspirations—are we creative, innovative, considerate, open? We capture our moment in time, our understanding of and investment in the environment we create. The shapes and materials we choose to construct and furnish our built environment tell the evolving stories of the people that live in it and live with it. Open House Limerick 2017 gives us the opportunity to learn from the stories told and the stories being constructed, as the community shapes the script of the stories to come.

Over the weekend October 6 to 8, there will be a programme of free events where people are encouraged to participate in exploring and learning about Limerick’s built environment through architect-guided and self-guided tours, walks, talks and exhibitions.

Open Photo: Open House Limerick are seeking expressions of interest for photography entries to participate in an online programme that explores this years theme Architecture is Story, capturing your story from within Limerick’s built environment. Applicants will feature across our social media platforms on an ongoing basis until Friday, 15 September 2017.  A selection of short listed entries will feature in an exhibition during the Open House Limerick weekend, with the Open House Limerick Photography Prize to be awarded to one photographer at the festival launch.  For further information email info@openhouselimerick.ie.

If you would like to become an Open House Limerick volunteer click here. Full training will be provided and architects can claim CPD points by volunteering with Open House Limerick 2017.

Full details of the buildings and events open to the public and their opening times are available from mid September at www.openhouselimerick.ie.

Date: Thursday 11 July 2017. 6.45pm

Exhibition runs until 17 September 2017

Venue: dlr LexIcon, Level 3, Haigh Terrace, Moran Park, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin

Seapoint, Sea, Sky and Spires is an exhibition curated by Prof. Eoin O’Brien in association with dlr Lexicon. The exhibition includes photographs acknowledging the rich history of Seapoint, recording the visual impact of the spires of the four churches scene from the sea. The photographs are what a swimmer might see. Swimmers are granted a vision and a peace that is denied those that are land-bound, namely the blending of the colours of sky and sea at Seapoint and the four spires (St Michaels, Monkstown Parish Church, St Patrick’s Church and St John’s Church). A mark of gratitude to a little stretch of water that has been to may, a place of solace and inspiration.

Prof Eoin O’Brien has lived on Clifton Terrace. facing Seapoint, since 1973. Eoin is a cardiologist who has conducted much research into hypertension and he is Adjunct Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at the Conway Institute of Bimolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin. He has written books on medical historical subjects along with books on famous Dublin writers and artists, including A.J Leventhal and Nevill Johnson and an acclaimed biographical study on Samuel Beckett.

The Irish Architectural Archive is currently holding an exhibition of Maura Shaffrey’s drawings from the books, The Buildings of Irish Towns and Irish Countryside Buildings following their recent donation to the archive’s collections.

Maura Shaffrey (1940-1997) was one of Ireland’s leading conservation architects. Her passionate interest in historic buildings permeated all of her work. She was among the best-informed Irish architects in this area, having completed a post-graduate degree in the Institute of Advance Architectural Studies, University of York, on the conservation of O’Connell Street, Dublin. With her husband Patrick, she established Shaffrey Associates in 1967 and the firm retains to this day an ethos built on their commitment to principles of conservation and sustainability.

Maura was company secretary of the Irish Architectural Archive, convenor of the planning sub-committee of the Irish branch of ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, and a long-standing member of An Taisce. Her major projects included the King House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ardfert Cathedral, Co. Kerry (winner of the RIAI Triennial Silver Conservation Medal 1999-2001) and Wicklow Head Lighthouse.

^{Roancarrig Lighthouse, Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork.}

Buildings of Irish Towns by Patrick and Maura Shaffrey was published in 1983 and was followed in 1985 by Irish Countryside Buildings. These two books constitute an extraordinary record of ordinary buildings. Paddy and Maura recognised the value and dignity of the commonplace, the everyday, and in these publications they celebrated a vernacular architecture which had been for too long overlooked and unappreciated. Along the way they discovered an array of remarkable architectural gems, both public and private, across the island of Ireland.

The books were heavily illustrated, using photographs and line-drawings to emphasise and inform. But the undoubted stars of both publications were the full colour reproductions of original watercoloured drawings by Maura Shaffrey. This exhibition presents a selection of these drawings chosen from over 120 originals which have recently been donated to the Irish Architectural Archive by the Shaffrey family. With both books equally represented, the drawings retain a vivid freshness and vitality, conveying both Maura’s joy in discovering these wonderful buildings and her zeal to communicate their importance to as wide an audience as possible.

21 June 2017 – 25 August 2017

45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Open to the public from 10am to 5pm, Tuesdays to Fridays.

An exhibition of Maura Shaffrey’s drawings from the books The Buildings of Irish Towns and Irish Countryside Buildings following their recent donation to the Irish Architectural Archive.

Maura Shaffrey (1940-1997) was one of Ireland’s leading conservation architects. Her passionate interest in historic buildings permeated all of her work. She was among the best-informed Irish architects in this area, having completed a post-graduate degree in the Institute of Advance Architectural Studies, University of York, on the conservation of O’Connell Street, Dublin. With her husband Patrick, she established Shaffrey Associates in 1967 and the firm retains to this day an ethos built on their commitment to principles of conservation and sustainability. Maura was company secretary of the Irish Architectural Archive, convenor of the planning sub-committee of the Irish branch of ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, and a long-standing member of An Taisce. Her major projects included the King House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ardfert Cathedral, Co. Kerry (winner of the RIAI Triennial Silver Conservation Medal 1999-2001) and Wicklow Head Lighthouse.

Buildings of Irish Towns by Patrick and Maura Shaffrey was published in 1983 and was followed in 1985 by Irish Countryside Buildings. These two books constitute an extraordinary record of ordinary buildings. Paddy and Maura recognised the value and dignity of the commonplace, the everyday, and in these publications they celebrated a vernacular architecture which had been for too long overlooked and unappreciated. Along the way they discovered an array of remarkable architectural gems, both public and private, across the island of Ireland. The books were heavily illustrated, using photographs and line-drawings to emphasise and inform. But the undoubted stars of both publications were the full colour reproductions of original watercoloured drawings by Maura Shaffrey. This exhibition presents a selection of these drawings chosen from over 120 originals which have recently been donated to the Irish Architectural Archive by the Shaffrey family. With both books equally represented, the drawings retain a vivid freshness and vitality, conveying both Maura’s joy in discovering these wonderful buildings and her zeal to communicate their importance to as wide an audience as possible.

For more information email info@iarc.ie or call 01 6633040