Eero Saarinen
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Sitting pretty: the chairs design people pick for their own homes
- Interiors
- March 14, 2020, 06:00
A chair is more than a practical place to unburden yourself. Its style and form says as much about you as the colour you choose to paint your front do(...)

The New York Times’s glowing tribute to Kevin Roche, Irish starchitect
- Art & Design
- March 4, 2019, 13:05
Kevin Roche, the Dublin-born architect who died on Friday, at the age of 96, was a designer of modernist buildings, at once bold and refined, that gav(...)

Distinguished Irish architect Kevin Roche dies aged 96
- Environment
- March 2, 2019, 18:55
One of Ireland’s foremost post war architects, Kevin Roche, whose work over 70 years won international acclaim, died at the weekend aged 96. Working (...)

Tractor shed or landmark of Irish modernism?
- Art & Design
- October 20, 2018, 05:00
We need more homes. We need more schools. Listening to Government apologists, it’s tempting to see these as intractable problems, or issues for that o(...)

Kevin Roche: ‘I’m basically a problem-solving construction guy’
- Film
- October 14, 2017, 05:00
It’s mid-morning in Hamden, Connecticut and Kevin Roche is in the offices of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC (KRJDA), the firm he co-foun(...)

Historian’s home with cabinet of curiosities and collectibles
- Interiors
- February 4, 2017, 08:00
Linda King is a design historian at IADT, Dún Laoghaire. She was a graphic designer before moving into education and research and has been a consulta(...)

The architects’ pick of Open Houses
- Homes & Property
- September 29, 2016, 08:30
The Presence of the Past is the theme of this year’s Open House Dublin, October 14th-16th, with more than 90 buildings open to the public in the city(...)

Architects of the past dared to dream of a future built for all
- Interiors
- June 4, 2016, 05:10
‘I’ve said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world,’ said Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, a Pritzker Prize winner and (...)

The man behind design giant Roche Bobois
- Interiors
- April 16, 2016, 06:00
When you think of designer furniture, household names that spring to mind tend to be mid-century Scandinavians or Americans. The French brand Roche B(...)

Road Warrior
- Transport & Tourism
- August 5, 2015, 01:00
$4bn overhaul on the way for New York’s LaGuardia New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week the redesign and development of LaGuardia Airport(...)