Charles Rennie Mackintosh

V&A Dundee Scotland’s first design museum opened in September in a stunning building designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma that looks like se(...)

When it comes to young architectural talent Ireland is spoilt for choice. Whether it’s a bespoke farmhouse extension; alterations to a challenging his(...)

Calls for a public inquiry into the fire that gutted Glasgow’s world-renowned School of Art have been rejected as premature. Both UK Scottish secreta(...)

When Patricia McGinnis, cofounder of cool Belfast home shop Maven, moved into her ground-floor apartment it had a perfectly good and well-functioning (...)

Brush up your walls When the year turns, our minds often turn to what we might do to give our interiors a new lease of life. You know how it goes. A (...)

This project involves the transformation of a Georgian three-storey terraced house from three bedsits into one light-filled, upside-down house. It’s n(...)

When it comes to fashion, Ireland’s loss is the UK’s gain. We export some of our best talents abroad to a country which values the industry and its £(...)

Elizabeth Francis grew up in Co Donegal and studied architecture at UCD. After graduation she went to work in Paris. There she met Mario Cucinella, a(...)

Painstaking, time consuming, spiritual? Splashy flashy Manga mixtures? Big eyed Anime? And what about schoolgirl kitsch? Japan is an enigma, but a hig(...)

The shortlisting of the architectural firm Assemble for this year’s Turner Prize says a lot about the judges and even more about the contemporary a(...)