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Irish Architecture
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More Than Concrete Blocks : Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories, Volume 3 1973-1999 : 3€30.00
More Than Concrete Blocks: Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories is a three volume series of architectural history books which are richly illustrated and written for the general reader.
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OMP: O'Mahony Pike Architects (Hardback)€39.99
OMP is widely recognised for having developed serious expertise in diverse fields over five decades, including urban planning, housing and off-site construction. This book is a fitting record of an architectural practice that is building towards a sustainable future for Ireland’s towns and cities
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Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution€30.00
The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after independence, presenting an Ireland politically transformed yet physically disfigured.
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Straw, Hay & Rushes in Irish Folk Tradition€35.00
Fully illustrated history of everyday rural Irish life, based on the National Museum of Ireland’s collection of straw, hay and rushes.
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Walls of Containment€39.99
This book reveals the rich variety of buildings and landscapes created as the asylum system evolved over the course of two centuries. Today, as the last of the large mental institutions pass into history, their architectural legacy – captured eloquently in this book by over 400 historic and contemporary photographs, drawings and diagrams – faces an uncertain future.
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The Building Site in Eighteenth-Century Ireland€35.00
This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders, and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a story that has never been told so comprehensively before. What kind of contracts bound those involved?
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Dublin, 1950-1970 : Houses, Flats and High Rise€31.00
Housing is the single biggest land use in any city and the 1950s and particularly the 1960s, saw Dublin having to expand beyond the city boundaries in order to meet the demand for houses.
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The New Housing 2: Building Better Communities€39.00
The New Housing 2, published by the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland,intends to show best practice in housing and mixed-use development through schemes which are planned, under construction or completed.
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