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(above) The Dover Sun House on the cover of the March 1949 issue of Popular Science; MIT chemical engineer

1948: The Dover Sun House

In his second column on visionary eco-buildings of the 20th century, Dr Marc Ó Riain looks at the Dover Sun House, which used a pioneering...

Interview by Olive Keogh with Marc O'Rian of President of IDI in the Irish Times Innovation Monthly Magazine January 2016

The Irish Green Building Council launched last week – 23rd February –  its final set of recommendations for a better national renovation strategy.

The IGBC proposed that the Government and financial institutions introduce a series of financial and tax measures – such as...

http://www.thisisbloom.com/2015/11/03/a-talk-with-marc-oriain/

This was the final talk of Design Bites: a series of lunchtime talks given by various creative professionals hosted by Irish Design 2015. Held in the couch house of Dublin Castle, a building that has been re...

A nondescript factory building filled with shipping containers has become one of Ireland's most award-winning spaces

https://www.businesspost.ie/legacy/architecture-and-renovation-thinking-outside-the-boxes-in-cork-207398

https://www.houseandhome.ie/real-homes/architects-marc-and-deborah-create-a-unique-kinsale-cottage-260

In our new issue of House and Home we met Marc O'Riain, an award-winning interior architect, lecturer and researcher, and his wife Deborah Ni Riain, architect, lecture...

We are working on a new house extension in Cork. We are using a brick facade with internal parquet floors and glue lam beams. At this early stage we have not yet developed the expression of the brick texture. We are hoping to use a flemish bond on the recessed element...

Link: http://www.frontend.com/marc_oriain.html

Marc O’Riain is president of the Institute of Designers in Ireland (IDI), an interior architecture professional and lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Cork Institute of Technology. Frontend spoke to Marc to get h...

For decades, Irish design was inextricably linked to a thriving community of craft producers, a strong Irish presence in international fashion and a successful cohort of long established indigenous companies designing and manufacturing on an industrial scale. But times...