Douglas Carson
@douglascarson.bsky.social
Architect: Carson & Crushell
Design Fellow: UCD Architecture
Coach: Harold's Cross Under 10s
Design Fellow: UCD Architecture
Coach: Harold's Cross Under 10s
Nearing completion, at a Dublin domestic re-use. Previously the home had multiple ground floor levels, all-magnolia walls. and chronic energy loss issues. The newly accessible GF is now all one level, with polychromatic walls and low energy use.
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Nearing completion, at a Dublin domestic re-use. Previously the home had multiple ground floor levels, all-magnolia walls. and chronic energy loss issues. The newly accessible GF is now all one level, with polychromatic walls and low energy use.
Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43978/...
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43978/...
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43978/...
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43978/...
Help me writing experts! Setting aside the article's content, this phenomenon of writing as bullet-points, with 1/2 sentence sections is strong here from Min. Donohue. Precise writing? Or a sign of over-confidence? Any writing recs for why this is problematic?
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
November 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Help me writing experts! Setting aside the article's content, this phenomenon of writing as bullet-points, with 1/2 sentence sections is strong here from Min. Donohue. Precise writing? Or a sign of over-confidence? Any writing recs for why this is problematic?
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
A fine tagline on the @irishtimesnews on the Irish Presidential race, which Catherine Connolly will indeed win, with the Irish Government's candidate, Heather Humphreys, coming second.
October 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A fine tagline on the @irishtimesnews on the Irish Presidential race, which Catherine Connolly will indeed win, with the Irish Government's candidate, Heather Humphreys, coming second.
Is William Blake's granny's sheebeen under Slattery's? Only a handful of Rathmines buildings there at the time...
1. Hoare, P. (2025) "William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love". 2. Ó Maitiú, S. (2021) Irish Historic Towns Atlas.
@blakesociety.bsky.social @philiphoare.bsky.social
1. Hoare, P. (2025) "William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love". 2. Ó Maitiú, S. (2021) Irish Historic Towns Atlas.
@blakesociety.bsky.social @philiphoare.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Is William Blake's granny's sheebeen under Slattery's? Only a handful of Rathmines buildings there at the time...
1. Hoare, P. (2025) "William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love". 2. Ó Maitiú, S. (2021) Irish Historic Towns Atlas.
@blakesociety.bsky.social @philiphoare.bsky.social
1. Hoare, P. (2025) "William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love". 2. Ó Maitiú, S. (2021) Irish Historic Towns Atlas.
@blakesociety.bsky.social @philiphoare.bsky.social
A fellow tutor once tried, and failed, to get Gove's Schools for the Future policy on the precedent list for our (Dublin based) architecture students. Not excellent, but worth of analysis?.
...aside from that, Frank Barnes' Swiss Cottage School for the Deaf is a fav UK 20th school of mine.
...aside from that, Frank Barnes' Swiss Cottage School for the Deaf is a fav UK 20th school of mine.
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A fellow tutor once tried, and failed, to get Gove's Schools for the Future policy on the precedent list for our (Dublin based) architecture students. Not excellent, but worth of analysis?.
...aside from that, Frank Barnes' Swiss Cottage School for the Deaf is a fav UK 20th school of mine.
...aside from that, Frank Barnes' Swiss Cottage School for the Deaf is a fav UK 20th school of mine.
June 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
...I hope you collect buckets of money for the people of Ethiopia.
Salut,
Paul Durcan"
Salut,
Paul Durcan"
May 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
...I hope you collect buckets of money for the people of Ethiopia.
Salut,
Paul Durcan"
Salut,
Paul Durcan"
Paedophiles are ostracised in other disciplines: Polanski, Glitter, Gill etc), so why does architecture, from Instagram to academia, still laud Adolf Loos, convicted of the sexual abuse of an 8yr old?
Architecture's master/slave ideology? Or are architects just a bit more immoral?
Architecture's master/slave ideology? Or are architects just a bit more immoral?
April 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Paedophiles are ostracised in other disciplines: Polanski, Glitter, Gill etc), so why does architecture, from Instagram to academia, still laud Adolf Loos, convicted of the sexual abuse of an 8yr old?
Architecture's master/slave ideology? Or are architects just a bit more immoral?
Architecture's master/slave ideology? Or are architects just a bit more immoral?
I agree. Their new Simone de Veil bridge in Bordeaux is a close contender. A few clunky details letting it down.
April 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I agree. Their new Simone de Veil bridge in Bordeaux is a close contender. A few clunky details letting it down.
This month's Domus is focused on Italian design too. And Richview library also has a pretty brilliant, giant of a new book on Milan Interiors - on the New Books shelf.
February 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This month's Domus is focused on Italian design too. And Richview library also has a pretty brilliant, giant of a new book on Milan Interiors - on the New Books shelf.
This Koh I Noor clutch pencil appeared briefly in The Brutalist film. However, Koh I Noor's 1st mechanically propelled pencil, the 'Versatil' was prepared technically during WWII, but not produced until the end of the War. This slimmer style from the movie was produced later still.
Great film tho'.
Great film tho'.
February 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This Koh I Noor clutch pencil appeared briefly in The Brutalist film. However, Koh I Noor's 1st mechanically propelled pencil, the 'Versatil' was prepared technically during WWII, but not produced until the end of the War. This slimmer style from the movie was produced later still.
Great film tho'.
Great film tho'.
Planxty's The Woman I Loved So Well.
One of my mother's LPs.
So: love, women mothers, water from wells. All those things Sundays offer.
One of my mother's LPs.
So: love, women mothers, water from wells. All those things Sundays offer.
February 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Planxty's The Woman I Loved So Well.
One of my mother's LPs.
So: love, women mothers, water from wells. All those things Sundays offer.
One of my mother's LPs.
So: love, women mothers, water from wells. All those things Sundays offer.
I only copped recently that the bride of Dublin's Bride Street by St Pats Cathedral was actually Brigit. A worship site to St Bride/Brigit dates back to at least 12th C. Her church was demolished by the Victorians to make way for Iveagh Housing.
February 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I only copped recently that the bride of Dublin's Bride Street by St Pats Cathedral was actually Brigit. A worship site to St Bride/Brigit dates back to at least 12th C. Her church was demolished by the Victorians to make way for Iveagh Housing.
Two exquisite corpse drawings by our family ages 9-45.
January 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Two exquisite corpse drawings by our family ages 9-45.
mubi.com/cast/david-l...
A graphically attractive, full listing of Lynch's filmography including his shorts, ads. Synopses, links to trailers , etc. On the brilliant Mubi.
A graphically attractive, full listing of Lynch's filmography including his shorts, ads. Synopses, links to trailers , etc. On the brilliant Mubi.
January 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
mubi.com/cast/david-l...
A graphically attractive, full listing of Lynch's filmography including his shorts, ads. Synopses, links to trailers , etc. On the brilliant Mubi.
A graphically attractive, full listing of Lynch's filmography including his shorts, ads. Synopses, links to trailers , etc. On the brilliant Mubi.
Generally agree. Curiously, this Temple Bar facade is not bad: appropriately theatrical and unusually well detailed: ARK by architects Cogan Kelly O'Toole with Calatrava designing probono the screen.
December 7, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Generally agree. Curiously, this Temple Bar facade is not bad: appropriately theatrical and unusually well detailed: ARK by architects Cogan Kelly O'Toole with Calatrava designing probono the screen.
Leighton house was such a good recommendation, thanks @helenbarrett.bsky.social . Not least 'cos of the great architecture in the neighbourhood: Shaw at the back, Webb next door, Edwardes Sq nearby etc.
6 years in London and I never bothered!
6 years in London and I never bothered!
November 30, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Leighton house was such a good recommendation, thanks @helenbarrett.bsky.social . Not least 'cos of the great architecture in the neighbourhood: Shaw at the back, Webb next door, Edwardes Sq nearby etc.
6 years in London and I never bothered!
6 years in London and I never bothered!
Any recommendations for London Arts & Crafts domestic interiors that are open for visitors this weekend?
Devey, Voysey, Morris etc
Pictured: George Devey's Killarney Gatelodge, 1883
Devey, Voysey, Morris etc
Pictured: George Devey's Killarney Gatelodge, 1883
November 19, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Any recommendations for London Arts & Crafts domestic interiors that are open for visitors this weekend?
Devey, Voysey, Morris etc
Pictured: George Devey's Killarney Gatelodge, 1883
Devey, Voysey, Morris etc
Pictured: George Devey's Killarney Gatelodge, 1883
On a side note: it was interesting to see The Irish Times use Aalto's Vyborg to represent a typical Dept of Education school!
As if!
The IT have since changed that photo. 🤔
As if!
The IT have since changed that photo. 🤔
January 10, 2024 at 9:21 AM
On a side note: it was interesting to see The Irish Times use Aalto's Vyborg to represent a typical Dept of Education school!
As if!
The IT have since changed that photo. 🤔
As if!
The IT have since changed that photo. 🤔
El Djem colloseum, Tunisia. And a mosaic in the Roman city of Leptis Magna in Libya.
The disembowlement of a captive human by animals was the most popular spectacle.
The disembowlement of a captive human by animals was the most popular spectacle.
December 31, 2023 at 7:23 PM
El Djem colloseum, Tunisia. And a mosaic in the Roman city of Leptis Magna in Libya.
The disembowlement of a captive human by animals was the most popular spectacle.
The disembowlement of a captive human by animals was the most popular spectacle.
Architects: a resolution for 2024: no more solutions.
Hermann Czech:
Hermann Czech:
December 31, 2023 at 7:07 PM
Architects: a resolution for 2024: no more solutions.
Hermann Czech:
Hermann Czech:
Body Snatchers, 1992. The 'mother's' errie calm before her alien screech. I just tried rewatching now and had to turn away. The horrors of suburban livin' in the 90s eh?
December 17, 2023 at 2:50 PM
Body Snatchers, 1992. The 'mother's' errie calm before her alien screech. I just tried rewatching now and had to turn away. The horrors of suburban livin' in the 90s eh?
A new book: 'Rethinking the Crit' offers some explanation. In particular Túrkkan's analysis of Alberti. It may be available as an Ebook through your university.
In summary I'd agree w/ Stephen. The crit is a farce with actors performing a ritual. At times it's a useful farce. More often it's not.
In summary I'd agree w/ Stephen. The crit is a farce with actors performing a ritual. At times it's a useful farce. More often it's not.
December 13, 2023 at 10:55 AM
A new book: 'Rethinking the Crit' offers some explanation. In particular Túrkkan's analysis of Alberti. It may be available as an Ebook through your university.
In summary I'd agree w/ Stephen. The crit is a farce with actors performing a ritual. At times it's a useful farce. More often it's not.
In summary I'd agree w/ Stephen. The crit is a farce with actors performing a ritual. At times it's a useful farce. More often it's not.