A New Year is like a blank sheet of paper and the pen is in your hands - It is your chance to write a beautiful story for yourself. Happy New Year

The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals represent the aspiration of the people of the United Nations for a more sustainable future. The Institute of Architecture and Technology at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, the Danish Association of Architects and the UIA Commission on the UN Sustainable Development Goals have created an architecture guide to the Goals Download the guide here The Goals define the challenges we need

I think we will experience even more focus on the design of our urban environment in 2019. This will include Climate Adaptation and Universal Design and because of the lack of housing, continued focus on densification of our urban environment - designers will be a significant part of solving all of these issues. There might still be a few doubting the urgency of our changing climate, but when David Attenborough declares that 'Much of the natural world will be distinct if we d

Kildare Town Market Square - how it could look as a rejuvenated urban space. Kildare Town Market Square as it is now. At the outskirts of Kildare Town lies Kildare Village. Kildare Village is not really a village, it is a commercial entity of designer outlet shops - a pseudo village - designed as small pedestrianised streets surrounded by Scandinavian looking timber houses, home to the international designer shops. Kildare Village's urban shopping street has an intrinsically