We are delighted to hear that GPO Witness History has been shortlisted for the RIAI Public Choice Award 2016! Please vote for it HERE and don't be afraid to share our good news via the website.
Kavanagh Tuite is hiring! /
Kavanagh Tuite are currently seeking creative and design focused Architects and Architectural Technologists, with talent and enthusiasm to join the practice. All positions offer opportunity for promotion within a busy, energetic and supportive practice, for motivated and attentive professionals.
Check out the job details and how to apply here.
GPO Witness History featured on ArchDaily /
Our recently completed GPO Witness History has featured on architecture website Archdaily. Check it out here!
Site Progress- Merrion Hotel /
Work is advancing rapidly on construction of the new wing of The Merrion Hotel. The multi-storey building addresses both the internal garden and Baggot Street. Demolitions, subworks and basements are complete and upper floors are set to appear on the street and skyline over summer 2016. The project is due for completion Easter 2017. Watch here for further updates.
White Brick /
A white brick wall for a house extension in Dublin is under construction. Always looks well against a blue sky! Stay tuned as the project progresses.
RIAI and Tongji University visit GPO Witness History /
Prof Liang and Prof Wu Jiang visiting Ireland as the invitation of the RIAI as part of the institute's work to build international networks for the architectural profession to support the internationalisation of Irish architectural practices' work.
GPO Witness History featured in Architecture Ireland /
Our recently completed project, GPO Witness History, was given a feature length cover and review in Architecture Ireland (Issue 286). You can read the article here
Embodied showcased at the newly opened GPO Witness History /
Commissioned by An Post Witness History, and in association with Dublin Dance Festival, Embodied is a series of six new dance solos by female choreographers based in Ireland that calls attention to the role of women as initiators of change within Irish society. Over a course of three nights the performance journeyed through the original fabric of the GPO building and newly opened GPO Witness History Centre. This was an unique opportunity to see an intimate and historically poignant performance nestled in the eye-catching surrounds of the GPO's east courtyard.
Please find the programme of events here
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GPO Witness History Fly-by /
Great birds eye photo of the GPO and the inner courtyard of the new GPO Witness History.
This photo is courtesy of The Irish Air Corps. It was kindly provided after practising yesterday for The Easter Sunday Fly-By during The Easter Sunday Centenary Events 2016.
The Easter Sunday events begin at 11.30am on March 27th with the reading of the 1916 Proclamation under the GPO portico by a Defence Forces officer. The President will lay a wreath on behalf of the people of Ireland, followed by a minute’s silence for all those who died. The national flag above the GPO will be raised to full mast and the national anthem played. The parade, led by the Defence Forces in full military display, will begin at St Stephen’s Green, pass the GPO and continue to Parnell Square. It will conclude with an Air Corps flypast and a 21-gun salute.
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/easter-rising-commemorations-50-events-for-2016-1.2492549
The Sunday Times Stamp of Quality /
Our recently finished GPO Witness History exhibition centre is reviewed in Sunday Times culture magazine today!
KTA New Website /
We have a new website in beta so any comments would be appreciated!
Capstones Shift: 1916 Centenary Lecture Series /
Along with Stephen Ferguson, Assistant Secretary of An Post, Brian Kavanagh, Fergal Ryan and Joy Kearns, of Kavanagh Tuite Architects, were invited to speak at RIAI for its Capstone Shift lecture series.
'To mark the Centenary of 1916, the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA), the RIAI and its journal Architecture Ireland have developed a joint programme of lectures and articles entitled ‘Capstones Shift: Architectural Legacies of the Easter Rising’ which run throughout 2016. The lectures are accompanied by a series of articles in Architecture Ireland and focus on a selection of prominent Dublin buildings destroyed or utterly changed by the events of Easter 1916 and later. These buildings were central to myriad social, commercial, political and religious patterns of life. Their absence, or removal from use, would have had an immediate and disconcerting effect on the daily routines and interactions of thousands of ordinary Dubliners as they lived, moved, worked, prayed and entertained themselves in the post-Rising city, quotidian disruptions making unavoidable and un-ignorable the profound political phase-shift that had occurred.'
(RIAI/news/article/Capstone Shift)
Brian and Fergal gave a fascinating and insightful lecture about the process of restoring the East courtyard to its former glory, the importance of craftsmanship involved within the conservation of such an complex landmark building, and the challenges met and overcome with the construction of the GPO Witness History, the new contemporary exhibition centre, that twines itself within the fabric and history of one of Dublin's most iconic buildings.
RIAI 2015 Conference /
Great weekend at the RIAI Annual Conference with our own Liam Tuite at the helm chairing a well received discussion with O'Donnell & Tuomey. A former Vice-President of the RIAI Liam is a regular lecturer on issues of professional development and project control.
http://www.riai.ie/news/article/the_2015_riai_annual_conference_strength_utility_grace_4_5_oct_rds_dublin