While housing makes up the majority of Dublin City Council’s building projects, the Council also has a significant collection of civic buildings that require development, redevelopment or maintenance: libraries, galleries, fire stations, historic buildings and monuments and leisure centres to name a few. In City Architects this work is covered by Team 10. The team […]

The public realm plays an important role in how Dublin functions and its attractiveness to the people who live or work in the city. As well as being the main space for movement, circulation and other service infrastructure, the public realm is a key part of the city’s identity and distinctive character. City Architects is […]

The Department of Culture, Housing and the Gaeltacht has published a discussion document, Places for People,  https://www.chg.gov.ie/app/uploads/2019/12/npa-consultation-report_english_web-december-2019.pdf as part of a public consultation process on a proposed new National Policy on Architecture. A new National Policy on Architecture is an exciting opportunity for people to contribute their ideas to create the conditions for a high […]

Dublin City Council’s Area Offices are the key to coordinating the delivery of services in communities across the City’s five administrative areas. The Area Offices provide a broad range of services including local housing services, communities development projects, street repairs, dealing with litter and graffiti and sports development among others. This fourth post about our […]

     21 Waterloo Road, D4 – Protected Structure   Dangerous Buildings’ is a statutory section within DCC, under the direction of the City Architect, which is concerned with buildings, structures or sites deemed a danger to the public. It operates under the remit of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act 1964 as amended. ‘Dangerous Buildings’ work […]

Renewing and redeveloping older housing complexes in the city is a key area of the Council’s work on housing. This week we are giving an overview of the work on estate renewal projects managed in City Architects by Team 4.  This work programme covers projects that are intended to be delivered by the Council directly […]