Despite housing crisis there's a hunger for architecture like never before

Dermot Bannon: “There is a hunger for architecture that I have never experienced before.”

Homeowners or not, we have never been more beguiled by architecture and design. As the man who is arguably Ireland’s most high-profile architect puts it: “There is a hunger for architecture that I have never experienced before.”

Writing in the keynote industry publication Irish Architecture: The RIAI Annual Review, Dermot Bannon notes: “As a nation, our fascination with home ownership has never left us, but gradually our focus can be said to have shifted from mere quantity to a more holistic recognition of quality.”