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INTBAU Ireland

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2 years

"Put usefulness first and you will lose it. Put beauty first and what you do will be useful forever." Roger Scruton

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Pride in Belfast. This Victorian warehouse building has just been restored and converted to office use. The simple and beautiful brick structure reflects the essence of the city's identity.

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York Street, Belfast - 40 years on. Anything goes.

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Of course Architecture was better 150 years ago. There's no shortage of evidence. (Castle Place, Belfast. 1863 and 2021)

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Civic pride. We've lost it. (North Street, Belfast)

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Traditional Architecture = GREEN Architecture 1. Low carbon footprint - local natural materials, local skills and workforce 2. Sustainable - easier to maintain, replace parts, recycle, reuse. 3. Longer lasting - improves with age, more loved over time. ...anything else?

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"Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it." Roger Scruton (Image: Divis Flats, Belfast, 1982)

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Traditional buildings define space. Modernist buildings occupy space.

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Sometimes dereliction looks much better... (Cromac Square, Belfast)

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Too much diversity in building heights and personal architectural languages has transformed our streets into places with no overall coherent identity. Tree-planting is not enough to hold things together. Image: High Street, Belfast 1890's and 2020's.

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There were call in 2018 for Bank Buildings in Belfast to be demolished. Thankfully the right decision was made.

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Congratulations to Irishman Ciarán Dolan for being one of three runners-up in the Traditional Architecture Group Measured Drawing Awards 2023. Lion Gate, Mote Park, Co. Roscommon.

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Belfast historian's glowing review of Quinlan Terry's new book "The Layman’s Guide to Classical Architecture".

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"No glass of wine is better than it tastes. No piece of music is better than it sounds. No work of sculpture is better than it looks." Alexander Stoddart

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"If a building has to be demolished, make sure that the replacement is designed to be at least as beautiful as the one that is condemned. If in doubt, ask a member of the public."

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Happy Christmas from INTBAU Ireland

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Which of these three common brick lintels is the most convincing architecturally?

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Infrastructure projects can be designed to be beautiful. The Craigmore Viaduct railway bridge, Co. Armagh.

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Remembering the Orpheus Building, Belfast. 1932-2015

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Conservationists, this is literally all you will need to comply with Article 9 of the Venice Charter "...any extra work which is indispensable... must bear a contemporary stamp”

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Reconstruction of historic 1770's Georgian house (destroyed in 1955) planned for Armagh City. INTBAU Ireland celebrates the reconstruction of our beautiful buildings.

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If they're not beautiful to the majority of people, DON'T schedule them as listed buildings/protected structures!

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The Ulster Bank, Bangor, Co. Down, 1920. One of the last beautiful buildings constructed in the town.

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3 years

Mainstream design and construction awards should now major on the imaginative re-use of existing buildings. Not new-builds which create more concrete and steel frames. Re-use significantly reduces whole-life carbon emissions.

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Where the simple, adaptable and beautiful Georgian house design has been replicated, it has served us very well – for nearly 300 years and counting. Sláinte to a near-perfect design! Let’s now build more Georgian terraces. (Image: Georgian Dublin)

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The eradication of heritage architecture is bad enough. It's usually accompanied by loss of beauty, and in turn by loss of citizens' sense of well-being.

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What if awards were given to the most beautiful buildings, not the newest? For example, "The most beautiful town hall on the island of Ireland"? Portrush Town Hall would probably still hold the title (Philippe Starck style pots not needed).

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Has modern architecture ruined Ireland? 2018 poll showed 69% agreed that modern architecture has ruined Britain. .

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Nos. 3-6 Castle Place Belfast. How did we get here?

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Portrush Railway Station lifts the spirit. Such fun! Let's make more buildings in Ireland in a Tudor revival style.

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Nicely restored 'Hansel and Gretel' gate-lodge in South Belfast. Architecturally edible.

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Image Left:Visually powerful architecture places its structure centre stage.(GPO, Dublin. Architect: Francis Johnston) Image Right:The tectonic quality of architecture is severely compromised when its structure is hidden.(Seagram Building, New York. Architect: Mies van der Rohe)

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Nice new house designs for Ballycastle, Co. Antrim. (Here Architects)

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5 years

A Welcome Addition - built 2012 in Northern Ireland

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4 years

Poignant quote from Professor Albert Richardson speaking in 1962 at a public meeting called by the @IrishGeorgian in protest at the planned ESB building on Lower Fitzwilliam Street. @frankmcdonald60

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There's really no shortage of inspiration for architects in Ireland. (Dublin City Gallery from 'Accidentally Wes Anderson')

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Image left: Brickwork expressed in a tectonically logical manner - typical brick voussoired arch over Georgian front door, Dublin. Image right: Brickwork not expressed in a tectonically logical manner - with no visible lintels - applied as an overall brick 'wall-paper' finish.

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Colum Mulhern is from Co.Antrim and runs his own practice in Luxembourg. Over the years he has worked with some of Europe's best designers such as Lucien Steil and Leon Krier. Like all traditional architects, he focusses on the creation of beautiful places

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“Our urban heritage is a genuinely fragile legacy. We must protect and nourish it” @IrishTimes

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For Traditional Architects building conservation is not a separate, boxed-off discipline. Repairing and adding new elements are all part of a living and creative continuum which is 1,000's of years old. (New addition to terrace of fisherman's cottages by Des Ewing)

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Student Prize & Measured Drawing Competition 2020 @RibaTag

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Rescuing scenic backdrops from Hollywood's Golden Age

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" As a designer you will have little control over whether to re-use or demolish. But to persuade your client to re-use, be prepared with all the carbon emissions facts. Remember that the greenest building is the one that is already built."

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@nneal25 @AllanHodl @FourFourths @Ragnarly the problem he is highlighting is surprisingly close to what the modernist idol Le Corbusier was advocating.

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Thankfully we have at last left behind the dystopian anti-urbanism of 'Le Corbusier'. Today we celebrate again the wonderful and life-enhancing traditional European idea of the street and the square.

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Pride in Belfast

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Brick wall. Brick wallpaper.

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"People warm to buildings that are unpretentious. Never set out to claim architecture means something other than what it is: i.e. stone upon stone. Beware of archi-speak!"

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New thatched house, Kenmare, Co. Kerry. Architect: Maxwell Pierce. 2010. Who says Irish building crafts are not still alive?

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Design for a Gothic Revival house, Co. Kildare (Liam Mulligan Architects)

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Congratulations to INTBAU Finland! 3 full pages on the subject of New Traditional Architecture in a national newspaper

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Newly built house in Malone Conservation Area, Belfast. Designed by Place Lab Architects.

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How Traditional Architecture and Traditional Buidling Techniques are helping housing problems in poor regions of Africa which have been hit by deforestation and draught. It's extremely cheap, very quick and built with local materials.

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The modern problem of deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa has created a housing crisis. So Association la Voûte Nubienne looked 3,500 years into the past and...

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⁦ @cghfranck and ⁦ @IntbauUSA ⁩ have compiled an extensive list of classical architectural opportunities in the USA...it’s still a tiny minority though. Should we be teaching classicism in schools of architecture in Ireland and the UK? #classicism

Education

Educational, Scholarship, and Networking Opportunities To assist our member network in finding educational, scholarship, and networking opportunities related to traditional building, architecture, …

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The corner window. Without a column it's an idea abandoned.

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@createstreets @frankmcdonald60 @RibaTag @ben_derbyshire @charliecampion @russellcurtis @FTerryArchitect @ADAMarchitectur @NewUrbanism @thehappycity @PPS_Placemaking Gotta love these little guys on the old Kildare Street club in Dublin. Design by Deane and Woodward, carvings by the O’Shea’s

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The box house in Ireland is a classically-inspired design simplified down to its essentials. With its symmetry, vertically- proportioned windows and hipped slate roof, it is still adopted as a popular model for beautiful new buildings in the countryside. (Architect: Des Ewing)

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INTBAU Ireland has responded to Belfast City Council’s proposals to retain and enhance an open area in the city centre destroyed in 1941 by the Luftwaffe. We propose instead that the original buildings are faithfully reconstructed, to reinstate this important urban corner

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3 years

"Buildings of up to 5-6 storeys are of course less dependent on the use of lifts which can act as a foci for disease. The resultant medium density places are much healthier than the type of overcrowded environments fed by over-scaled and tall buildings."

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Traditional architecture gives better sense of well-being than contemporary glass and steel buildings

Traditional architecture gives better sense of well-being than contemporary glass and steel...

This is the finding of a recent study where researchers have used the latest in virtual reality technology (VR).

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5 years

Good to see that Robert Adam doesn’t mince his words in regards to Notre Dame. From the Guardian @RobertKwolek @ADAMarchitectur @createstreets @dubcivictrust @FTerryArchitect @SPABIreland @michaelwmehaffy @RibaTag

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INTBAU Ireland

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New SOCIAL HOUSING in the Plessis-Robinson suburb of Paris, by French architects Marc and Nada Breitman ... Winners of the 2018 Driehaus Prize / @Gilleeece @frankmcdonald60 @Giulia_Vallone

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A classical style entry (top) for a new pedestrian/cycle bridge across the River Liffey at the Irish National War Memorial Gardens. (The winning entry is below).

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Saudi has set aside $17 billion to create a beautiful new city to attract tourists to the kingdom. It will be built exclusively in the local Najdi traditional architecture style. Are we doing enough here in Ireland to nurture our own traditional architecture?

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This house extension in West Belfast skilfully fuses the old with the new (by Place Lab architects). Thanks to a client with a good eye for aesthetics, it could easily have been yet another Modernist pastiche of randomly-placed windows, industrial finishes and flat roof.

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Wagnerian! The Wonderful Barn, Leixlip, Co. Kildare

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Planning applications - some Modernist terms explained...

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"It's not good because it's old, it's old because it's good."

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Watch Stephen Blackwood at 10:12 “What Brutalist architecture does is it declares to the whole world and to you that ‘There is no truth, there is no beauty, you are nothing. Accept it.’ It’s just a concrete, annihilating force.” @stephenblackwd

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"Where possible, urban buildings should be arranged to enclose public space, creating identifiable external ‘rooms’. Avoid designing urban buildings as a series of a stand-alone objects set in formless space - this is a disjointed approach and squanders land.

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Own goal? On the eve of COP26, the Modernist establishment's top architecture award (Stirling Prize) is given to a big concrete structure.

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Dublin truly is a work of Art.

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Ornament is a crime. (Adolf Loos, 1910). We know through seeing that the opposite is the truth.

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New visitor centre, Hillsborough Castle, Co. Down. Architect: Consarc. Its relaxed integration with the existing architecture strengthens the overall visitor experience.

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INTBAU Ireland supports StreetLevel Australia which advances good urbanism,traditional architecture and quality building.Organisations like this are springing up around the world to take the lead over the current architectural Establishment. @streetlevelaus

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Why, as a designer, would you arrange glass in such a way to look like it's supporting heavy bands of masonry? These read as tectonically irrational facades, forced to stand up through the use of hidden fixings.

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The approach of Marcus Patton (Hearth) to building conservation is consistently fresh and inspiring. He is never tempted to add novelty statements or other discordant elements. Quite the opposite.

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Happy Christmas from INTBAU Ireland.

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"Use local building materials from regional, traditional styles. These not only fit in, but specificying them helps sustain the local economy. There is no excuse today for ignoring the carbon emissions produced by e.g. concrete, steel and extruded aluminium."

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Traditional solid wall (as opposed to cavity wall) construction using lime mortar is being rediscovered as a sustainable and beautiful way of building. Two very recent examples: Birmingham (Porphyrios Associates) & Oxford (John Simpson Architects).

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One of Ireland's most beautiful buildings is so magnificent it just had to be copied. Image left: Belfast City Hall, Co. Antrim. 1906. Image Right: Durban City Hall, South Africa. 1910.

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Why can't our new hospitals look beautiful? Image: The former 17th century hospital, Royal Kilmainham, Dublin.

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WORLD CLASS cities offer the best in services and facilities, but crucially also have a unique and beautiful local architectural character. And the best of local cuisine, music and art too of course. Quality local, not generic global.

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@PedestrianLK @AilishDrake Great leadership shown by the local community in Limerick. As a comparison, it seems not that long ago that Shop Street in Galway was pedestrianised.. hard to believe that anyone could object to this kind of transformation...

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"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them." T S Eliot (Image: Leinster House, Dublin)

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Robb’s was known for years as ‘Ireland’s leading department store’. It closed in 1973 and was demolished in 1988. INTBAU Ireland has been calling for its complete reconstruction.

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Robb’s department store, Castle Place Belfast c1950.

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Pastiche' simply means a work that imitates another one - it can refer to the best of the best.

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“Things we lost in the fire”... An interesting view of the original Cork City Hall and Carnegie library; both destroyed in the burning of Cork, 100 years ago. @corkcitycouncil @AnTaisce @IrishGeorgian @IrishAesthete

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How many other shop fascias have been covered in Ireland? This family-run foodstore in Lisburn (Co. Down) has now gained a frontage that exudes quality and care.

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New courtyard house, Athboy, Co. Meath. Architect: Liam Mulligan. Visio-structurally resolved; calm and restful-looking.

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Castle Street Historic Towns Initiative Project, Ramelton, Co. Donegal. (Dedalus Architecture)

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Indigenous architecture grows out of the specific climate of a place, and reflects the local natural materials of which it is constructed. So, not only is it sustainable but reflects a region’s core identity. (Toomebridge, Co. Antrim)

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Image: Street interventions London by John Simpson Architects.

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"It is one of the most perfect exemplars of Neo-Classical domestic architecture in existence." James Stevens Curl about Townley Hall, Co. Louth (in New English Review May 2022)

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Infrastructure projects can be designed to be beautiful. The St. Vincent foot-bridge (1862), Cork.

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Archi-speak? Architect claims Dublin design based on Giant's Causeway, "to the particulars of the site to create place and space". The Causeway is er... 160 miles away.

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day from INTBAU Ireland. Detail from the Antrim Guardian offices, Antrim Town, Co. Antrim.

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