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10 Architecture Firm Blogs to Watch in 2013
Thu, 12/27/2012 - 10:49 — AnonymousThe recent launch of two blogs, by Perkins+Will and Westlake Reed Leskosky, proves that the medium is both relevant and worth the commitment of extra resources. In that spirit, we went scouting for others making good use of the platform.
...1840s – Innismore Hall, Derrybrusk, Co. Fermanagh
Tue, 11/27/2012 - 16:16 — AnonymousA smaller country house from the mid 1840s. A distinctive design with a curved bow end elevation and a bowed portico to the front. Demolished in the 1950s, but the four large Corinthian columns survive, being re-used at the entrance to Portora Royal School, Enniskillen. Related Posts: 1619 – Castle Caldwell, Co. Fermanagh 1840 – [...]
...1835 – Ballydarton House, Fenagh, Co. Carlow
Tue, 11/27/2012 - 16:37 — AnonymousArchitect: Daniel Robertson This is a detached two-storey Tudor Revival country house with half-dormer attic, built c.1830, with three-stage battlemented tower to centre on a square plan, cut stone dressings including mullioned bay and oriel windows, gables, polygonal turret and service wing to side. Related Posts: 1840s – Dunleckney Manor, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow 1619 – [...]
...1836 – Mount Leinster Lodge, Co. Carlow
Tue, 11/27/2012 - 16:38 — AnonymousArchitect: Daniel Robertson Detached four-bay two-storey Tudor Revival house with half-dormer attic, c. 1840, on an asymmetrical plan with granite ashlar façade having carved stone dressings including mullioned bay and oriel windows and gables. Related Posts: 1835 – Ballydarton House, Fenagh, Co. Carlow 1840s – Dunleckney Manor, Bagenalstown, Co.
...1840s – Dunleckney Manor, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow
Tue, 11/27/2012 - 17:29 — AnonymousArchitect: Daniel Robertson Sir Nicholas Bagenal came to Ulster as Marshal of Elizabeth 1st’s army, settled in County Carlow and founded Bagenalstown. The family’s first house at Dunleckney was built in about 1610 but a new house was built for Walter Newton, who inherited the estate from his mother, the Bagenal heiress, in about 1850. [...]
...1876 – Proposal for New National Opera House, Thames Embankment, London
Wed, 11/28/2012 - 12:32 — AnonymousArchitect: F.H. Fowler Now the site of the New Scotland Yard buildings by Richard Norman Shaw. Related Posts: 1876 – Hamberg Lutheran Church, Dalston, London 1876 – New House in The Strand, London 1876 – Chapel of St Mary at The Cross, Shoreditch, London 1876 – New Buildings at the Corner of Chancery Lane & [...]
...1448 – Tulsk Abbey, Co. Roscommon
Wed, 11/28/2012 - 14:45 — AnonymousAccording to Lewis’s Topographical Survey of Ireland, “O’Conor Roe erected a castle here in 1406, and during the same century a Dominican monastery was founded either by MacDuil or O’Dowell, or by Phelim, son of Phelim Cleary O’Conor, who was interred here in 1448…. The monastery continued to flourish till the reign of Elizabeth, but [...]
...1257 – Roscommon Abbey, Co. Roscommon
Wed, 11/28/2012 - 19:55 — AnonymousFounded in 1253 and consecrated in 1257. The church originally consisted of one long aisle with lancet windows. Those on the east and west walls were replaced in the 15th century with traceried windows. The north transept was added in the 15th century. On his death in 1265 Fedhlim O’Conchobhair was interred in the abbey [...]
...1829 – Drum Manor, Kildress, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone
Wed, 11/28/2012 - 20:42 — AnonymousArchitect: William Hastings Rebuilt in 1829 by Major Richardson Brady in a heavily symmetrical and very flat “Regency Baronial” style. Later extended and romanticised by William Hastings who added a four storey tower, a new north front, and a gothic porch. He was also responsible for remodeling the interior around a great hall. This is [...]
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