IT’S soaring in popularity as an urban pastime and crane-counting was very firmly on the agenda when I took up a challenge to find out just how much I could pack into a 24-hour architectural and interiors fact-finding mission in Dublin.

The first new office building to be constructed on Cork city’s South Mall in a generation is 35% more energy efficient than comparable buildings, constructed even up to just a decade ago.

O’Callaghan Properties have placed a Cork city centre development on the market today with a guide price of €34m.

Developers JCD have made an off-market multi-million euro swoop on the Cork city Albert Quay site occupied for the past 50 years by family-owned Carey Tools, including the Sextant bar which was subsequently acquired by the Carey family.

The former Apollo House site has gone up for sale.

EY is creating 520 jobs across its seven Irish offices.

Rose Martin takes a look at the innovative and imaginative designs among the winners of this year’s Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland Architecture Awards.

Planning permission for the €100m-plus renewal of the 40-year-old Wilton Shopping Centre is being sought from Cork City Council this week.

Apartments of this high calibre are rare within the confines of Cork City, writes Trish Dromey

A new video has revealed what developers JCD Group have in store for Cork's South Mall as they expand city's growing collection of next-generation office buildings.

A group of sheds that have been transformed into the new O’Donoghue Centre for Theatre, Drama and Performance at NUI Galway has been selected for a top architecture award.

There’s a clear move to the sheer convenience of city centre living, with a bounce in apartment values in better located schemes, and high-end units hitting high-end prices.

Cork city centre’s largest office scheme, Navigation Square, is now cleared for a €90m build commencement by the summer which could facilitate 3,000 jobs.

The move in coming months by the Central Bank to its new €140 million offices on Dublin’s North Wall Quay has resulted in the eagerly anticipated arrival to market of the iconic Sam Stephenson-designed tower by College Green and Temple Bar, along with two other lots, all with a combined value of €80 million.

A group of former Clerys workers have launched a concerted bid aimed at preventing the €150m redevelopment of the Dublin department store from getting the green light.

The €90m office development proposed this week for Cork City’s quays show a mark of confidence in the second city’s employment prospects — much of it foreign direct investment-sourced jobs — as is evident in recent jobs announcements and arrivals such as Tyco.

The Central Bank has paid a security firm almost €300,000, to date, to secure the site of the ill-fated former Anglo Irish Bank building on Dublin’s North Wall Quay.

The completion of the ill-fated former Anglo Irish Bank building on Dublin’s North Wall Quay has moved a step closer.

A Dublin office site with a 2013 planning grant for 1660,000 sq ft of Grade A offices is for sale for €25 million, having previously sold for €160m to Bernard McNamara.

THE word ‘breathtaking’ can be taken in several ways when talking of coastal sites: they can be stunning to look at, and even more so to look out from, but it can also mean so exposed and so windy that it’s hard to catch a breath.

A SERIES of deals and employment is expected to flow at the €70 million City Gate Park, built over the past 18 months in the face of international recession, and where Taoiseach Enda Kenny tomorrow officially opens the 75,000 sq ft stand-alone building bought by Dell/Quest.

WE’VE had a lot of dark clouds of late, very little silver lining, so Enda Cavanagh’s transformation into a full-time multiple award-winning photographer makes for a very uplifting tale.

PLANNING permission for a €50 million events and concert centre for Cork city is set to be lodged this month: if approved, it could be hosting shows in two years time.

State-owned ESB today insisted it cannot reveal shortlisted designs for the redevelopment of its controversially-sited headquarters.

AN €80 million healthcare project that will provide 350 construction jobs is set to get under way in Cork city in September pending the approval of An Bord Pleanála.

PLANS for a new private hospital are to be lodged shortly by O’Callaghan Properties for their Jurys Hotel site in Cork city centre.

QUIETLY launched and quietly ticking over, the Lancaster Gate development on Cork’s Western Road is one of the success stories of the slump.

SIXTEEN months after the wrecking ball moved in, Cork’s new Jurys Hotel will reopen its doors at noon today after a €38 million redevelopment.

THE rezoning of over 300 acres of agricultural land in Waterford County Council’s new five-year Development Plan has the potential to create up to 3,500 jobs.

THE largest shopping centre planned for outside Dublin, the €175 million White Water Centre in Newbridge, was officially kicked off by former soccer international Niall Quinn yesterday.