Almost three hundred years after the construction of TCD’s first great library, the new Ussher Library is ready to open. Raymund Ryan finds that Trinity College ‘has balanced the maintenance of its inheritance and progressive architectural patronage with aplomb’
Dublin’s new Spire of Light can mean everything or nothing—which is perhaps its principal attraction in this age of uncertainty. It is certainly unusual in having, by design, no practical function or commemorative purpose but Raymund Ryan hopes that it will, perhaps, act as metaphor for energy
Raymund Ryan visits Château la Coste, a stylish fusion of outdoor contemporary art and working vineyard, set within the natural beauty of Provence
Raymund Ryan visits the spectacular Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin’s Docklands designed by Daniel Libeskind and Dublin’s McCauley Daye O’Connell.
Raymund Ryan assesses the career of Níall McLaughlin, the Irish architect whose research engages with the values of humanism.