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Art Deco church in Drumcondra
27 Oct 2020Griffith Avenue is one of the most beautiful streets in central Dublin. The majestic trees along the road on both sides give this place an incredible charm Green in the summer, exploding with colours in Autumn. Among these trees and the surrounding low-rise buildings, there is a magnificent architectural object…
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Intrepid 4x5 Mk 4 camera - new adventure
16 Oct 2020It took me only two years to get back to large format photography. And I mean here - camera with the lens as I am continually using my incredible pinhole cameras with perspective correction (4x5 and 8x10). After selling Sinar F2 (in 2018), which I had been using for many…
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Large format 8x10
18 Jul 2020Writing of this post will be stretched in time - a form of a short diary. I am starting on Saturday morning on the 11th of July, and I can’t wait until the next week to tell you what I feel today… And I am amazed. My visual perception of…
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Irish Management Institute
10 Jul 2020The Irish Management Institute is an Irish business school located in Sandyford, the suburbs of southern Dublin. It contains offices, a library, a restaurant and teaching facilities A unique campus designed by Arthur Gibney in 1974. The same year, Arthur Gibney received the RIAI Triennial Gold Medal for the IMI…
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Wesley House
03 Jul 2020For the first time this year, I didn't write my Saturday blog for two weeks in a row. Good to be back after this unexpected break. The restrictions have been loosened a bit so it would seem that it will be easier to reach certain places. Not necessarily. Several areas…
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Power plants
12 Jun 2020There are places that you can’t always enter, let alone photograph. Places that are often fascinating and full of magic. This fascination can be based on various premises. In my case, it is the form of the subject, its purpose and historical aspect. Industrial facilities right after modernist architecture are…
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Hendrons
05 Jun 2020Walking down Dominick Street Upper, at some point, a fascinating and unique structure emerges. A four-story, white rendered block with horizontal glazing, flat roof and tall lift tower. It’s Hendrons former Showroom. Then, along the Palmerston Place stretches the further part, workshops
© Artur Sikora Hendrons Brothers, founded in 1911,…
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Texaco House
29 May 2020The weather is fantastic these days, so I’m trying to take advantage of it. Not only by cycling to my new favourite swimming spot but also by photographing Dublin and its architecture more often than usual In such illumination and through a red filter, everything looks simply wonderful. With intense…
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Dublin suburb libraries
09 May 2020Photographing Ringsend Public Library, helped me to realise how very interesting these small beautiful buildings are. Following the same path, I visited the remaining three I mentioned in the post last week. Updated restrictionists allowed me to move around Dublin a bit further at last, and I decided to use…
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Longing…
09 Apr 2020Something completely different today. A few ordinary snapshots from a mobile phone that don’t bring anything special except documenting the moment. A few moments, actually, that I miss very much. A few weeks ago, everything changed suddenly in a way nobody expected. It made me stop doing what I was…
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Church of the Annunciation
20 Mar 2020Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West is one of the biggest churches in Dublin. It was designed by David Keane (David Keane & Partners, later KMD Architecture) in 1967. A massive building with a capacity of 3500 people (!). Large scale structure with impressive concrete roof. Stephen Walsh designed…
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In Memoriam…
15 Feb 2020This text was supposed to be about something else. Due to unexpected circumstances, however, I decided to change the subject. Paul Koralek, cofounder of renowned architectural practice Ahrends, Burton, Koralek Architects (ABK Architects), passed away a few days ago. I had a chance to meet him while working at ABK…
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Short break
07 Feb 2020In a post last week I wrote about my fast changing neighbourhood. However, this does not apply to the entire area. There are still places here that are slightly different. Like this across the street. Several lanes with picturesque red brick terrace houses built in 1890–1910 for dockers. Many of…