Sam Stephenson

WeWork opens for business at One Central Plaza

Central Bank’s former Dame Street headquarter office gets new lease of life as flexible workspace giant finally takes over

Thu Jun 06 2024 - 05:58

Eamonn Andrews’s former Portmarnock home, designed by Sam Stephenson, for sale for €750,000

North Co Dublin house designed for the This Is Your Life presenter combines the architect’s signature style with a B2 Ber rating

Thu Nov 24 2022 - 05:50

Press Up co-founder puts architect-designed Lad Lane home on the market for €1.775m

Matt Ryan’s Dublin 2 house was reimagined to capitalise on its canalside location, a few doors down from where Ryan’s mother, the late Caroline Walsh, grew up

Thu Oct 20 2022 - 05:58

Dublin 8 citizenM Hotel to preserve Sam Stephenson’s brutalist facade

Bold frontage added to Huguenot church on Bride Street as part of 1970s office conversion

Wed Apr 27 2022 - 02:00

Wild Alpacas, deep breathing and a Dublin gastrobreak on the menu this August

Travel News: Explore Donegal or Kildare and get back in touch with nature

Sat Aug 07 2021 - 06:00

Don’t reopen Georgian museum, says former head of national collection

Fitzwilliam Street museum must not be used to ‘respectabilise’ ESB development

Mon Feb 15 2021 - 04:58

ESB plan to convert museum into luxury apartments criticised by city councillors

Georgian House Museum move is condemned as ‘sly’ and ‘cultural vandalism’

Mon Feb 08 2021 - 21:09

Fintan O’Toole: Dublin city – facing its third great abandonment – must be reimagined

Dublin’s inner city could soon become a ghost town – or reoccupied as a living public space

Sat Jan 30 2021 - 06:00

ESB seeks to turn museum into luxury apartments for sale

Irish Georgian Society opposes move, saying it would be a ‘sad and significant loss’

Mon Jan 25 2021 - 01:00

Dublin by Design: Meticulously illustrated look at city architecture

Contributors look at the history of Dublin to imagine an even better future

Sat Dec 12 2020 - 05:00

Step-down facility – Frank McNally on the accidental amphitheatres of Dublin

An Irishman’s Diary

Thu Dec 03 2020 - 19:15

The Ringsend coastguard station that became a perfect docklands home

A former barracks in Dublin 4 has become the ideal home to work from

Sat Nov 07 2020 - 06:00

The little known architectural firm that is transforming Dublin

The capital's streets are changing, and architects HJL are nearly always involved

Sat Nov 07 2020 - 05:00

Preservation order issued for 1970s Dublin blocks

24 St Stephen’s Green and 10 Burlington Road added to record of protected structures

Mon Jun 08 2020 - 02:16

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

Sat Apr 11 2020 - 06:00

German investor pays €50m for Northside Shopping Centre

With 90% occupancy and gross rent of €4m, new owner AM Alpha in line for 7.5% return

Wed Nov 06 2019 - 06:00

Compensation culture claims Shelbourne’s famous front door

Five-star Dublin hotel to remove revolving door after string of personal-injury claims

Thu Aug 15 2019 - 15:51

Sea views to fall for at Stephenson’s Dalkey home seeking €4.85m

Reception rooms of five-bed house take in vista from Howth to Dalkey Island

Thu Jun 13 2019 - 11:30

Stripe’s European HQ in Dublin 2 to sell for €49.5m in off-market deal

International investor agrees to purchase One Building on Lower Grand Canal Street

Wed Mar 27 2019 - 05:00

Ugly, dated Dublin: Learning to love our concrete jungle

Ellen Rowley is rediscovering the beauty of some of the city’s once-disliked buildings

Sat Feb 02 2019 - 05:00

Frank McDonald’s memoir takes on politicians, Catholicism and ‘The Irish Times’

‘Truly Frank’ review: Journalist’s book is surprisingly vulnerable and expertly bitchy

Sat Oct 27 2018 - 06:10

Coolock’s Northside Shopping Centre goes on market for €50m-plus

With 90% occupancy and gross rent at €4m, new owner will see return of more than 6%

Wed May 09 2018 - 05:45

Architect building on tradition of ‘being a service to society’

Friday interview: president of the Royal Institute of the Architects in Ireland David Browne

Fri Feb 23 2018 - 05:30

ESB eyes HQ as most energy efficient office block in State

Seven-storey Dublin offices to be ‘exemplar in sustainability’

Mon Jan 08 2018 - 05:00

Secrets and pints: 60 years of the Shelbourne’s Horseshoe Bar

The Shelbourne hotel’s ‘institution within an institution’ gets ready to party – discreetly

Fri Nov 24 2017 - 15:25

Plans for €75m makeover of Central Bank building to be lodged

Hines and Peterson’s plans include altering the roof for a restaurant and viewing deck

Wed Aug 09 2017 - 05:23

Developers want to alter the roof of old Central Bank

Planning sought for €75m redevelopment to include 300-seat rooftop restaurant

Wed Aug 09 2017 - 05:00

HSBC lends €100m for redevelopment of former Central Bank building

Deal marks HSBC’s first foray into the Irish commercial property sector

Wed Jul 12 2017 - 06:15

Central Bank refurbishment works under way

Sam Stephenson structure on Dame Street to get top-floor bar and restaurant

Fri Jul 07 2017 - 13:44

Planet Business: Central Bank items set for auction and crypto-currencies

Facebook’s moderation challenges and Dom Joly relives giant phone sketch

Fri May 26 2017 - 06:44

Every item from Central Bank building to be auctioned

Plants and restaurant facilities among items from bank’s former premises to go on sale

Sun May 21 2017 - 16:45

Plan shelved to protect Central Bank building

Dublin City Council defers protection of Sam Stephenson structure to help developer

Fri May 12 2017 - 06:23

Details emerge of ‘refreshing’ renovation of Central Bank space

Mixed retail and office space will have bar, restaurant and completely reworked plaza

Wed May 03 2017 - 01:00

Edible schoolyards, and other ways to make our cities nicer

The architectural duo Dan Wood and Amale Andraos are rethinking ordinary life

Thu Apr 27 2017 - 00:00

Check-In: From snap-happy Transylvania to coolest Donegal

Machu Picchu by rail, Zurich by air, or New York to Southampton on ‘Queen Mary 2’?

Sat Apr 01 2017 - 06:00

Hong Kong family backs Central Bank building buy

Peterson Group are co-buyers of Dame Street landmark and former INBS headquarters

Tue Jan 17 2017 - 16:37

Agent hoping to secure €37m plus for Bord na Móna’s former home

Distinctive refurbished block in Baggot Street seen as blue-chip investment

Wed Oct 19 2016 - 06:00

Frank McDonald: Central Bank building should become a new library for Dublin

Plan to move Central Libary to former Coláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square misguided

Wed Sept 14 2016 - 01:00

Eggs, bacon and 12 hour days: the art of running a B&B

What does it take to run a successful B&B? Two artists, a former teacher, an engineer and an ex-army officer describe what it it’s like to take in guests

Fri Aug 19 2016 - 09:00