Tag: nice gaff

Architect Ronan McCann takes a look at Ashgrove off Meath Street, a rare examples of city centre social housing where the architecture actively helps foster community.

Architect Cian Deegan discusses the over-looked gem that is the Postal Garage on Sandwith Street, sadly not included on Dublin City Councils list of Protected Structures.

Karl Whitney, author of Hidden City, explores the fascinating Abbeville, the physical incarnation of Charles Haughey's North Dublin power base.

This month in Nice Gaff we check out the swanky US Ambassador's Residence in Phoenix Park, a slice of American opulence transplanted onto Irish soil.

Built by the City Council (then Corporation) in 1979-80 and designed by architects Stephenson, Gibney & Associates, the two completed, granite blocks of Dublin Civic Offices offer a rhetorical facade…

This month in Nice Gaff, Laurence Lord of AP+E writes about the super-secure flying saucer that is the Embassy of the United States.

Architect Nathalie Weadick celebrates one of Dublin's building treats, the Timberyard Housing, home to 47 occupants, built on Cork Street as late as 2009

Bringing timber joinery and Dublin gaffs into the present day in luxurious style is No.1 Castle Street by de Blacam and Meagher Architects.

‘It’s like Narnia in the wardrobe,’ said the man showing me around.

Secret passages, hidden stairs behind fake doors, this is a Machiavellian wonderland of architecture.

The Black Church is a landmark on Dublin’s northside. It stands in the centre of the road in St. Mary’s Place, just beyond the top of Parnell Square. It gets

"Yeah, there’s a conversation pit. Because there’s not a 42” flatscreen and an overstuffed couch, it’s stuck in the ‘70s? What’s wrong with talking to people?" We look at the…