New additions to our stock of office buildings are profiled in a special edition on workplaces in the latest issue of Architecture Ireland. The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland journal highlights the diversity of design now evident in this genre, ranging from decentralised Government offices in Dundalk to an industrial unit for the processing of archaeological material in Kells. Liffey House on Dublin's Tara St (architects Donnelly & Turpin) with its arresting black basalt façade gets pride of place on the cover of the journal. But the AI architectural review is by no means uncritical of the design of this prominent city centre block.

