Dublin City Council completes €581m purchase of former DIT site
Deal to buy Kevin Street site would see council vacate Wood Quay civic offices
Sam Stephenson
Civic Offices are in the right place. Leave them there
They can be refurbished, upgraded, extended and enhanced – it seems shameful and wasteful to throw it all away
Dublin City Council insisted on moving to Wood Quay. Now it wants to spend up to €500m to leave. Why?
Built on Europe’s most important Viking site, Dublin’s civic offices need an environmental upgrade. It makes more sense to start again, the council says
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Expect full panoramic views of Dublin city and surrounds over drinks and dinner
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
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
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
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
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Don’t reopen Georgian museum, says former head of national collection
Fitzwilliam Street museum must not be used to ‘respectabilise’ ESB development
ESB plan to convert museum into luxury apartments criticised by city councillors
Georgian House Museum move is condemned as ‘sly’ and ‘cultural vandalism’
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
ESB seeks to turn museum into luxury apartments for sale
Irish Georgian Society opposes move, saying it would be a ‘sad and significant loss’
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