Cormac Murray
@cormac-murray.bsky.social
Dublin Architect & Writer
Interested in 20th Century Irish architecture | Beauty is subjective, Embodied C02 is objective. 🏭
📚Books: America at Home, The Dublin Architecture Guide.
Zines with the Phibsboro Press
Interested in 20th Century Irish architecture | Beauty is subjective, Embodied C02 is objective. 🏭
📚Books: America at Home, The Dublin Architecture Guide.
Zines with the Phibsboro Press
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How our built environment shapes us: Architecture & the City, marks Open House Dublin '25 (first broadcast 13 October 2024). From 9.10am, Sunday 12 Oct. With Éimear Arthur, Cormac Murray, Emmett Scanlon, Kevin Marinan, Graham Hickey, Julie Cruickshank, @felispeaks.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
How our built environment shapes us: Architecture & the City, marks Open House Dublin '25 (first broadcast 13 October 2024). From 9.10am, Sunday 12 Oct. With Éimear Arthur, Cormac Murray, Emmett Scanlon, Kevin Marinan, Graham Hickey, Julie Cruickshank, @felispeaks.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
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New blog post by me on the #Irish #architecture platform TYPE, just published today: www.type.ie/blog/stonine...
It developed from my recent trip to Brno, where one can visit almost every room of the restored Villa Tugendhat, one of Mies van der Rohe's iconic earlier buildings.
It developed from my recent trip to Brno, where one can visit almost every room of the restored Villa Tugendhat, one of Mies van der Rohe's iconic earlier buildings.
Stoniness and Humanity at the Villa Tugendhat
The occupants of the basement scurry around this warren of spaces to pick up the loose ends of the freely-planned floor above. There is no functionalist virtue on display here.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
New blog post by me on the #Irish #architecture platform TYPE, just published today: www.type.ie/blog/stonine...
It developed from my recent trip to Brno, where one can visit almost every room of the restored Villa Tugendhat, one of Mies van der Rohe's iconic earlier buildings.
It developed from my recent trip to Brno, where one can visit almost every room of the restored Villa Tugendhat, one of Mies van der Rohe's iconic earlier buildings.
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Adventures in hitchhiking, hurlers’ hopes and dreams, a barefoot wonder and an elephant in Phibsborough Sunday Miscellany 20/07/25 on now! Doireann Ní Bhriain Joe Whelan Cormac Murray Theo Dorgan Lani O'Hanlon John Allen #HurlingFinal #corkvtipp Listen in/back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
Sunday Miscellany - RTÉ Radio 1
New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968 // Producer: Sarah Binchy; Broadcast Co-ordinator: Elaine Conlan
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July 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Adventures in hitchhiking, hurlers’ hopes and dreams, a barefoot wonder and an elephant in Phibsborough Sunday Miscellany 20/07/25 on now! Doireann Ní Bhriain Joe Whelan Cormac Murray Theo Dorgan Lani O'Hanlon John Allen #HurlingFinal #corkvtipp Listen in/back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
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Mummers Theater, John M. Johansen, Oklahoma City, USA, 1970
June 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Mummers Theater, John M. Johansen, Oklahoma City, USA, 1970
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How can cities reimagine existing spaces to address contemporary urban challenges? Watch #TheCityReused now youtu.be/nperbvMIR2I?...
The panel explored the transformative potential of reuse and creative adaptation in urban development - moderator @cormac-murray.bsky.social
Photos by Ste Murray
The panel explored the transformative potential of reuse and creative adaptation in urban development - moderator @cormac-murray.bsky.social
Photos by Ste Murray
March 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
How can cities reimagine existing spaces to address contemporary urban challenges? Watch #TheCityReused now youtu.be/nperbvMIR2I?...
The panel explored the transformative potential of reuse and creative adaptation in urban development - moderator @cormac-murray.bsky.social
Photos by Ste Murray
The panel explored the transformative potential of reuse and creative adaptation in urban development - moderator @cormac-murray.bsky.social
Photos by Ste Murray
Another excellent (free) article on TYPE by Graham Hickey: "Dublin’s greatest ‘known unknown’, our best kept public secret, is that the North Georgian Core is floundering in a deleterious cycle of substandard uses and ever-accelerating unauthorised development" www.type.ie/blog/dublins...
Dublin's North Georgian Core: a planning free zone?
The North Georgian Core is floundering in a deleterious cycle of substandard uses and ever-accelerating unauthorised development in a property investment model – to call it for what it is – that is fu...
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February 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Another excellent (free) article on TYPE by Graham Hickey: "Dublin’s greatest ‘known unknown’, our best kept public secret, is that the North Georgian Core is floundering in a deleterious cycle of substandard uses and ever-accelerating unauthorised development" www.type.ie/blog/dublins...
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How to turn a corner
Nicaragua Dwellings, low income housing in Barcelona by Ricardo Bofill, 1965
(Windows open to the east and west as the corner faces north)
www.arquitecturacatalana.cat/en/works/hab...
Nicaragua Dwellings, low income housing in Barcelona by Ricardo Bofill, 1965
(Windows open to the east and west as the corner faces north)
www.arquitecturacatalana.cat/en/works/hab...
January 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
How to turn a corner
Nicaragua Dwellings, low income housing in Barcelona by Ricardo Bofill, 1965
(Windows open to the east and west as the corner faces north)
www.arquitecturacatalana.cat/en/works/hab...
Nicaragua Dwellings, low income housing in Barcelona by Ricardo Bofill, 1965
(Windows open to the east and west as the corner faces north)
www.arquitecturacatalana.cat/en/works/hab...
Delighted to share a new article on TYPE (a website on design and the built environment). This week's article is by architect Ciarán Molumby, tackling the frightening statistics of construction waste produced in Ireland, and what needs to change in culture and practice.
www.type.ie/blog/the-6-c...
www.type.ie/blog/the-6-c...
The 6% Club
There were nine million tonnes of construction and demolition waste produced in Ireland in 2021. This amounts to 48% of all waste produced in Ireland that same year. In 2022, the construction industry...
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November 25, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Delighted to share a new article on TYPE (a website on design and the built environment). This week's article is by architect Ciarán Molumby, tackling the frightening statistics of construction waste produced in Ireland, and what needs to change in culture and practice.
www.type.ie/blog/the-6-c...
www.type.ie/blog/the-6-c...
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‘We review solutions including improving affordability by reducing demand for homes as financial assets, macroprudential policy, expanding social housing, and reducing underutilisation of floor-space.’
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A home for all within planetary boundaries: Pathways for meeting England's housing needs without transgressing national climate and biodiversity goals
Secure housing is core to the Sustainable Development Goals and a fundamental human right. However, potential conflicts between housing and sustainabi…
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November 24, 2024 at 7:43 PM
‘We review solutions including improving affordability by reducing demand for homes as financial assets, macroprudential policy, expanding social housing, and reducing underutilisation of floor-space.’
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Plan Magazine Oct 1984. A Special on A + D Wejchert Architects recent projects. Includes their entry to the Hong Kong Peak competition that Zaha Hadid won. Ed Burke & partners, Dublin, came 3rd; design was by Charlie Donnelly who went on to set up Donnelly Turpin in 1996.
November 14, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Plan Magazine Oct 1984. A Special on A + D Wejchert Architects recent projects. Includes their entry to the Hong Kong Peak competition that Zaha Hadid won. Ed Burke & partners, Dublin, came 3rd; design was by Charlie Donnelly who went on to set up Donnelly Turpin in 1996.