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Hollywood Hills glamour in Killiney mansion for €10m
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The Irish architect who became the ‘megamansion king’ of LA
Dublin-born, Los Angeles-based Paul McClean creates homes for America’s super-rich
Former Sam’s bar and Silks casino contents to feature at Kells auction
Sale includes chandeliers, leather armchairs and gaming tables
‘In-between places’ will decide who becomes the next US president
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Steve Martin at 75: ‘The name Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr still makes me laugh’
Sarah Silverman, Reginald D Hunter and more on a ‘profoundly stupid, completely brilliant’ comic
Striking Lough Derg mansion with UL connections returns for €925,000
Four-storey home in Killaloe, Co Clare, built for UL president in 1990s
Why are Irish world class architects not building in Ireland?
Grafton Architects have just won the 2020 Royal Gold Medal, but are ineligible to tender for many major projects at home
Supersized kitchen is heart of finally finished Greystones home
This boom-era house was a shell before Gino Gelato chain owner and his family took it on
Ugly, dated Dublin: Learning to love our concrete jungle
Ellen Rowley is rediscovering the beauty of some of the city’s once-disliked buildings
An architect at 99: ‘I’d like to go on for another 10 years’
Jack O’Hare’s life took off when his mother won a huge cash prize. Then Frank Lloyd Wright invited him to come work for him in the Arizona desert
Tractor shed or landmark of Irish modernism?
St Brendan’s school in Birr has won a Getty Foundation preservation-study grant
Arizona: a small piece of unforgettable heaven
Cowboys and cacti, deserts and creeks, horses and hiking – your holiday is sorted
Bloom 2018: everything you need to know about the garden festival
Pick of the prize winning gardens and don't forget to try gins laced with botanicals in a new distillery zone
Hidden beauty in west Cork wilderness for €695,000
Coorannel House is perfectly located on the edge of Glengarriff Woods Nature Reserve
A semi-State for housing would solve absolutely nothing
The housing emergency requires radical and co-ordinated action by the Government
Future-proof living in Burnaby seclusion
No 6 South Place combines modern design and technology in a mature setting
Kathy Sheridan: ‘Elderly’ is just a word – sometimes the wrong one
If age is only a number, when is it okay to use that culturally loaded term ‘old’?
Don’t fence me in: On the cowboy trail in southern Arizona
Some towns appear like a resort, but much of the region still feels dusty and untouched
Music heaven in megapolis on shores of Lake Michigan
From jazz to electric blues to house and indy rock, Windy City is a real capital of sounds
Marcel Breuer: the ‘last modernist’ gets his just deserts
Robert McCarter’s book salutes the modest architect and designer as a master
Ireland finally falls for modernism a century on
Modernist houses have long been favoured backdrops for Hollywood baddies
The Kimono Way: Irish design’s love affair with Japan
The influence of Japan on our design culture is deep and pervasive, so what is it that has so enraptured some of our most creative artists and makers?
Echoes of Lloyd Wright in Howth house for €2.5m
Shielmartin Cottage sits on 1.1 acres and has superb sea views
Irish couple awarded prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal
Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey have been added to distinguished list of winners
Green design has the power to transform the world we live in
Biophilic design aims to make our buildings ‘evolve’ in a more natural way
Royal Gold Medal for architecture goes to Dublin-based O’Donnell and Tuomey
World’s most prestigious architecture award won by Irish pair in recognition of work
Space, the final frontier for architecture
A firm of Irish architects is addressing the question of how buildings make us feel at the ‘Sensing Spaces’ exhibition at the Royal Academy in London’s Piccadilly
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