The two Irish women among the world’s top architects
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects on their passion for design
Is love necessary for survival? And if so, how do we help the lonely?
Neuroscientist Stephanie Cacioppo’s book looks at love from every angle
First Tokyo Olympics changed Japan for ever
Hosting the Games 57 years ago helped transform Tokyo from ‘a polluted, fetid mess’
The little known architectural firm that is transforming Dublin
The capital's streets are changing, and architects HJL are nearly always involved
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara awarded Pritzker Prize for architecture
International award regarded architecture’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize
Dublin boutique hotel gets a jazz-age twist from Chicago billionaire
Richard Driehaus, a US fund manager with a love of antiques, has overseen work at the art deco-themed Number 31 hotel
The architect with an Irish soul reshaping US cities
Lorcan O’Herlihy on rebuilding Detroit, the Los Angeles housing crisis and designing with climate in mind
Sheila O’Donnell: Architect who has spent a lifetime building connections
Riba’s Woman Architect of the Year prize just the latest big award for Irishwoman
Distinguished Irish architect Kevin Roche dies aged 96
Singular talent the driving force behind numerous landmark buildings worldwide
Kevin Roche: ‘I’m basically a problem-solving construction guy’
His father built up Galtee cheese, and his first job was designing a piggery: now 95, the unassuming Irish ‘starchitect’ focuses on the small problems, such as where you hang your coat
Architecture’s glass ceiling: cracking a macho culture
Women have traditionally fared poorly in the profession – but are things changing?
Women building a brave new world
Female architects were few and far between until Zaha Hadid, Eileen Gray and Ray Eames blazed a trail
Airports in terminal decline
Airport architecture worldwide has gotten insanely creative but is still mostly unwelcoming to the endless queues of knackered travellers
Renowned architect Zaha Hadid dies aged 65
Pritzker Prize-winner suffered a heart attack while being treated for bronchitis
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