We were delighted to take part in the RIAI's Simon Open Door initiative this year. A big thanks go to all the participants, who made this such a great success for a fantastic cause. We're looking forward to next year already!
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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