PhotoIreland participates this year in Open House Dublin, offering a series of free tours to the International Centre for the Image, and hosting a talk from the Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea series.
Building Tour
Join us for a 45-minute tour of the International Centre for the Image – pre-booking is mandatory.
Launched last July, the centre is located in Coopers Cross, a new development in Dublin’s north docklands, near the River Liffey. Access to the centre is through a stepped pedestrian street between the two distinctive office buildings in the quarter. The tour will begin at the centre’s entrance, a striking glass structure in the plaza.
Visitors will discover the public and private areas of the centre, including the board-marked concrete gallery, the artist studios, library, and other facilities. Finally, the tour will bring visitors into the Town Hall in Building 2, a unique and rather ample multi-purpose space, and a key characteristic of the building’s inside-outside philosophy.
Dates and times
Friday 17 October
12:00pm and 5:00pm
Saturday 18 October
12:00pm, 3:00pm and 5:00pm
Sunday 19 October
12:00pm, 3:00pm and 5:00pm
Meeting Point: At the International Centre for the Image reception. D01 E5Y8
For booking and full details, see Open House Dublin 2025.
Open House Extra – Talks & Conversations:
Building – An Fonteyne in conversation with Ludwig Engel
Join celebrated Belgian architect An Fonteyne (noAarchitecten) in conversation with Ludwig Engel (HouseEurope!) as they unpack the ways and means innovation and imagination in architecture and design can make best use of the buildings already built in our cities. As one building per minute is currently demolished in Europe, and at a time of huge rental costs and a widespread lack of housing, the speakers will also share why demolition is so widespread and what you can do as a citizen to stop it!
Date and time
Thursday 16 October
6:00pm
An Fonteyne and Ludwig Engel are presented in Dublin by the Irish Architecture Foundation as part of Open House Dublin 2025 and a new international talks series this Autumn.
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea is IAF’s new talks series, which brings international speakers to audiences where they are on the island of Ireland. As an island nation, Ireland has long since depended on reciprocity, the continuous import and export of ideas, people, imagination, and knowledge. These exchanges continue to form and shape our built and architecture culture. At a time of global change, IAF presents a series of international speakers to share their work on identity, reuse, collaboration, queerness, and contest in our built world today. Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea is presented as part of IAF’s Future Heritage autumn programme.
Reserve your place at Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
