Kate and Declan live in a terraced townhouse in Raheny. They both work full-time and have two very young kids. Kate works long hours away from home and Declan works shift work which means he gets to be home during the day more with the children. The couple used to love entertaining friends in the...

The various respiratory metabolisms of man during sports performance is an inspiration to design hybrid car engines that emit less CO2.

Thirteen years ago Brian and Julie Keane found a location that suited them perfectly, but a house that didn’t.

Brian and Julie live in Dalkey, South County Dublin. Julie is an airhostess who has a passion for fashion. In their three-bedroom house she has run out of space for all her clothes, ha...

Serving as a detailed portrait of the acclaimed Japanese architect, this film engages with Kisho Kurokawa, who employs Buddhist ideas in a symbiosis of traditional forms and western modernism to achieve an intercultural architecture. In a merging of philosophy, culture, space and narrative, Kurok...

A film describing the development of International Style corporate architecture in the city of Melbourne, Australia. Spanning the period 1950-1980, the film charts the rise of the glass box, curtained walled office building and explores subsequent local developments of the the genre.

Unfriendly land when it rains, Scotland's atmosphere is peculiar, and yet very beautiful.

Traditionally famous for its sheep, pubs and whisky, Scotland is also home to men and women who fight for a more sustainable production.

OBainbridge Island, a 30-minute ferry ride away from Seattle, we set out to discover one of the greenest eco-neighbourhood in the US.

The Grow Community hopes to instil a new vision of habitat that aims to be as modern as ecological. The first houses have been built on a 3-hectares of long aband...

In this ancestral land with a lot of character and a strong cultural identity, agriculture relies predominantly on livestock and dairy production. But recently, small-scale farms are emerging, campaigning for more peasant biodiversity and more environmentally friendly methods.

Dermot travels to Baldoyle, North Dublin, where he flips the upstairs and downstairs of Mel and Aoife's bayside home to make the most of a spectacular view.

Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio established the architectural firm of Diller + Scofidio in the late '70's. For fifteen years they focused on performance; collaborations with choreographers, writers and directors; and architectural projects realized in an art world setting. Considered among ...

The study of unique molecular composition of spider silk inspires new materials useful to industry and medicine.

In Wilhelmsburg, a district in Hamburg, 70 international teams of architects and manufacturers have responded to public tenders on the ecological habitat of the 21st century.
These habitat specialists, supervised by the IBA, have thus conceived 180 new apartments in 17 buildings on a 30-hectare ...