Founded by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar Germany in 1919 and closed by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus school has had a huge global influence on art, architecture and design.

One of the best remaining, compact prime redevelopment sites in Cork city has been sold for over €7 million, for 0.63 of an acre, or for the equivalent of €11 million per acre, to Dublin-based purchasers.

A Cork City office building is up for sale with a €16m price tag.

A rising development tide, a housing shortage, plus the Government’s 2040 National Planning Framework, may aid the planned sale by Nama and receivers of a pivotal Cork docklands site.

BOUNCING back towards full occupancy is Cork’s City Quarter office and retail/restaurant investment, sold last year for €14 million to private clients/investors with MC2

From Páirc Uí Chaoimh to a tour of Cork city pubs, Rose Martin looks at options for the Open House event, which aims to encourage the people of the Rebel City to appreciate their built heritage.

Hundreds of people spent thousands of hours developing and constructing the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Here, four of them recount the journey.

A DEAL worth up to €14m is to be signed in coming days on the remaining investment — including the Boardwalk bar and restaurant — at Cork city’s seminal City Quarter. 

One of Dublin’s most eye-catching buildings has sold for €242m in what is being described as one of the most high-profile office investment sales to occur here.

Expansion costs at Scott Tallon Walker, the firm that designed the new Pairc Uí Chaoimh and co-designed the Aviva stadium, has led it to plunge to a pre-tax loss of €518,440.

Gerda Frömel drowned aged 44, but a new exhibition serves as a reminder of why she was one of Ireland’s most lauded sculptors, writes Alan O’Riordan

There’s shades of banishing the remaining ghosts of the much-reviled Anglo Irish Bank at its building foot-prints in both Dublin and Cork cities: the Central Bank has started to convert Anglo’s vaunting vanity HQ project to new State service, while Cork’s former Anglo Irish Bank building is getting a re-brand and letting pitch after a multi-million euro purchase.

The most prestigious award in world architecture, the RIBA Gold Medal, has been awarded to husband and wife team, O’Donnell Tuomey.

Eagle-Eye rather than Hawk-Eye will determine the fate of the GAA’s plan to carry out a €70m redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

APARTMENTS built by Howard Holdings are being offered for sale for receivers KPMG, in two lots, in Cork City centre, and in outer suburban Rochestown.

Cork-born Patrick Scott, who died yesterday aged 93, enjoyed a long and illustrious career as one of Ireland’s best-loved visual artists.

The veteran West Cork-born artist Patrick Scott is the subject of a major retrospective in Dublin and Carlow, Tina Darb O’Sullivan reports

An Irishman based in London has picked up the former Kinsale home of Howard Holdings director Greg Coughlan for €3m — half what it cost to develop.

Losses at the architectural firm that co-designed the Aviva Stadium continued to mount last year as revenues plunged even further.

IF throwing a stone in water sends out ripples, then a powerful RIB 12-passenger ferry can send out strong waves and positive vibes which may yet wash up on fertile shores for waterside work commuters.

HOME is the sailor, home from the sea — and 5 Ard Cuan in Kinsale’s Ardbrack Heights is no bad spot to drop anchor at.

Alternatives to the traditional model are explored in new show, says Tina Darb O’Sullivan

The GAA expects its €67m regeneration of Cork’s flagship Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium to create 300 jobs and boost the construction industry by up to €22m.

Despite a guide of €2.25m, this trophy property in Kinsale is well-placed to draw international interest, Tommy Barker reports

A decision on the possible demolition of a listed former convent in Cork which was gutted by fire now hinges on engineering reports.

A planned €40m revamp of Spike Island, to create a tourist mecca, will include an events centre with a capacity for 6,000 people.

On the eve of the Irish Hospice Coffee Morning, Colette Sheridan visits the new Marymount in Cork, now one year old

The former Kinsale home of runaway property developer Greg Coughlan, of Howard Holdings, is being sold by his wife Anne with a €3.5m-plus price tag.

A three-day early summer concert and the planned construction of a pedestrian causeway across a harbour will form part of Cork County Council’s €1m plans to turn Spike Island into a tourist mecca.

THE chairman of Cork County Board has promised to consult with residents who live near Páirc Uí Chaoimh as work starts on the €40 million redesign of the flagship stadium.

TWO Enterprise Ireland- supported office facilities aimed at small and medium technology-based companies have been largely empty since their construction.

Movers and Shapers 3: Conversations in the Irish Art World

APPARENTLY cleared out and largely empty, the Kinsale family home of Howard Holdings’ developer Greg Coughlan was built with the same driven sense of vision and purpose as his company’s €100 million City Quarter scheme in Cork city centre.

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

SIGNIFICANTLY smaller but definitely shinier than its predecessor, the new air traffic control tower in Cork Airport will help staff keep every little Fokker in sight.

PROFITS at leading architects Scott Tallon Walker, a firm heavily involved in the development of the Cork docklands, almost doubled last year.

AN Irish property company has agreed an €80 million deal to develop a retail site in southern Spain.

PLANS for the development of the proposed new Lansdowne Road stadium were officially lodged with Dublin City Council yesterday.

PROFITS at leading architects Scott Tallon Walker rose by nearly half in 2004.

THE designers involved in creating the masterplan for the redevelopment of Croke Park have now been charged with helping the FAI and IRFU realise the dream of a new Lansdowne Road.