News
EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award
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17.11.16 Wood Awards Ireland 2016
Winner - Large Scale Buildings: Inchicore Model School
Highly Commended - Small-Scale Private Buildings: Gate Lodge
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13.05.2016 Donaghy + Dimond Architects presented with the AAI Downes Medal (for Excellence in Architectural Design) for Inchicore National School
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01.01.2016 Inchicore Model School on the cover of the RIAI Annual Review 2015/2016
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05.11.2015 Irish Times article on Inchicore Model School
See the article by Emma Culinan here
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18.06.15 2015 Irish Architecture Awards
Best Educational Building: Inchicore Model School
Best House Extension: Gate Lodge
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24.04.14 Second phase of Inchicore National School nearing completion
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24.04.14 Woodtown Orchard House Construction
Work has begun on the Woodtown Orchard House which is a self build project designed by Donaghy & Dimond Architects.
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08.10.13 Open House at Inchicore National School
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04.10.13 Inchicore National School – the first day in the new building
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25.09.13 Inchicore National School – Open House October 6th
Inchicore National School will be open to the public for Open house on Sunday October 6th from noon. The two phase project involves the refurbishment & addition to a historic 1850′s primary school to adapt it to 21st century requirements. Phase 1 is almost complete ; providing six new classrooms, a general purpose hall, a home-school liaison room and ancillary facilities while at the same time maximizing playground area on a tight site. The new classrooms will have an East aspect into the tree canopy and the GP hall is at street level.
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25.06.13 Spring 2013
Donaghy & Dimond Architects have recently be appointed to work upon two projects in England; the refurbishment and extension of a family home in Kew, London & the refurbishment of a Grade Two protected farmhouse in Rutland.
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17.07.12 Gate Lodge – Site Visit
Some pictures from a recent site visit to the Gate Lodge on a rather damp summers day, where things are beginning to take shape.
The cedar, from the trees felled in clearing the site, is now making its way back as structure, windows and doors from the joinery workshop – only a stones throw up the road.
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13.07.12 Susan Cogan, Donaghy & Dimond Architects – Digital Analysis + Energy Retrofit
Susan Cogan recently completed a postgraduate programme in Digital Analysis + Energy Retrofit in D.I.T. The resultant design involved the retrofit of an entire block of Dublin City Council’s social housing to improve its Building Energy Rating (BER) from an “F” to an “A3″ , allowing residents to cut up to 90% off their heating bills!
Read about it here.
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13.07.12 Stitch, an Extension in Dublin – featured in ‘Real Homes’ Magazine
One of our projects was recently featured in Real Homes magazine. You can see the publication here as well as the project page.
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02.07.12 City House + Workspace: Donaghy & Dimond Architects – featured on RTE’s ‘Capital D’
This clip from ‘Capital D’ was originally shown on RTE a couple of months ago which included a feature on Open House 2011. 'City House + Workspace' by Donaghy & Dimond Architects is shown as an example of what buildings could be visited over the weekend.
Link to the project page for ‘City House + Workspace’ here as well as a selected publication.
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14.06.12 House for a Gardener on ‘Room to Improve’
This clip from ‘Room to Improve’ was originally shown on RTE on Wednesday 12th October & has been recently repeated.
Link to the project page and a publication here.
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14.06.12 Irish Times – Awards Feature
The Irish Times published an article yesterday on the Irish Architecture Awards 2012 which featured images & client comments on some of the shortlisted buildings; including our own Bricolage & Weathering Project in the Liberties, Dublin.
Link to the project here.
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12.06.12 An Extension in the Liberties – Shortlisted for RIAI Architecture Awards 2012
Bricolage & Weathering – An extension in the Liberties, Dublin 8, has been recently shortlisted for an RIAI Architecture Award under the category of Best Extension.
http://www.architectureawards.ie/
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12.06.12 Nomination – Swiss Architecture Award 2011/12
Donaghy & Dimond Architects are delighted to have been nominated for the BSI Swiss Architecture Award 2011/12.
This is an international architecture prize, promoted by the BSI Architectural Foundation with sponsorship from the Federal Office of Culture in Bern and the Mendrisio Academy of architecture. This prize is aimed at architects, regardless of nationality, “who have contributed significantly to contemporary architectural culture, showing a particular sensitivity to the context of landscape and environment”.
