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The Irish Architecture Foundation has kicked off its new education programme with “A Space for Learning”, a design competition that aims to challenge current thinking on school design.

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McCullough Mulvin to oversee Butler Gallery relocation   Baca wins bronze at International Urban Design Awards
McCullough Mulvin Architects have been appointed to oversee the Gallery's relocation to the Evan's Home in Kilkenny City.
  Established in 2005, The LifE project identifies ways in how architecture could be made more adaptable to climate change.
Sheppard Robson to design £20 million college   No 'large' practices left in Ireland as 40 Dublin firms cut staff numbers
Sheppard Robson has won a contract to design the £20 million St Ambrose Voluntary Aided College in Hale Barns, Trafford.

 

  A new survey has found that 60% of employees in architecture firms in the Republic have been let go since 2007, and that only 16% of companies have not shed any staff in the recession.

GOING IT ALONE?

Have you, either through choice or redundancy, set up on your own recently? Plan Online is organising a series of profiles on practices who've decided to go it alone. Contact denise@planmagazine.ie for more information.

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Designs by Joon&Jung Design in Fashion 'It was looking pretty fake'

Joon&Jung is a conceptual design studio based in Eindhoven. Here are two of their designs – Cloud Umbrella and I'm too sad to separate mug cup.

Italian studio AquiliAlberg created angular scenography for fashion designer Neil Barrett’s catwalk show in Milan recently.

A 1970s building designed to mimic the vernacular architecture of the Veneto countryside has been refurbished by Italian studio Andrea Tognon.

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Brit Insurance Designs Awards

Showcasing some of the most forward thinking designs from around the world, the Brit Insurance Designs Awards exhibition opens 17 February.

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Architecture still an attractive career

Department head at WIT, Maire Henry, urges school leavers and mature students not to overlook a professional career in architecture because of concerns about the impact of the recession

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Container Graveyard

Basing their approach on the cradle-to-cradle principle, Danish architects MAPT has developed a sustainable container-pavilion for the North Harbour Exhibition in Copenhagen.

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Ekokook

Victor Massip and Laurent Lebot, designers at French studio Faltazi, have designed a conceptual system where water is recycled and waste is broken down by worms inside the kitchen.

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Christ + Gantenbein wins Kunstmuseum extension competition

Swiss architects Christ + Gantenbein have been awarded first prize in a competition to design an extension to the Kunstmuseum in Basel.

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Rafael Viñoly designs first airport in Uruguay

Rafael Viñoly Architects has designed the new Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay. The firm’s first completed airport and its largest project in Viñoly’s home country, the new building was created to expand capacity and spur commercial growth and tourism in the surrounding region.

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Sustainability – the great debate

There is no doubt that the word “sustainability” is overused and misunderstood in many areas of the market but in fact what we should be discussing is sustainable development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” says Lennart Jonsson.

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Sound advice

What do you do when residential work is drying up? You set up your own scheme to give homeowners expert advice on house defects of course. Plan went to meet the brains behind the Help My House scheme, architect Anthony Brabazon.

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Big Art

Need a space big enough to display your larger than life sculpture or art installation? The new Visual arts gallery in Carlow town could be just the ticket. Denise Maguire went along to get a first look inside Visual and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre and to meet its architect, Terry Pawson


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OMA wins Hong Kong college competition

Architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have won a competition to design a new campus for Chu Hai College of Higher Education in the New Territories, Hong Kong.

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Culture vulture

French Architects RMDM have completed a cultural centre near Paris, clad with horizontal strips of poplar wood and ceramic tiles.

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Wilkinson Eyre Architects completes bus station in Bath

A complex transport interchange on a sensitive and tight site, the scheme is a new contemporary structure built in the centre of one of only two World Heritage Cities in the World.

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Civic Pride

Now home to Birr Civic Offices and Library, an old Pugin-designed convent building has been restored to its former glory by McCarthy O’Hora. The project involved the complete restoration of the convent, including the restoration and protection of the stained glass windows but the biggest challenge was getting light into the building.

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Dancing with nature
Paris studio Hugh Dutton Associés has won a competition to design electricity pylons for Italian energy company Terna.