{"id":614,"date":"2026-03-02T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liammulliganarchitect.ie\/?page_id=614"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:46:10","slug":"new-shopfront-kells","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.liammulliganarchitect.ie\/?page_id=614","title":{"rendered":"New shopfront, Kells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-IE\">New shopfront, Kells<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-IE\">Traditional style shopfronts contribute so much to the character of our historic towns and villages yet sadly these are now becoming rare, being all too easily replaced by poor quality approximations even when subject to statutory protection. This is a shopfront we designed for a new retail premises formed in an existing house on Farrell Street, Kells, which is a designated Architectural Conservation Area. This practical and economical design derives from various nineteenth<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-IE\">century exemplars. Contrary to the mistruth that new works in historic places must only be in contrasting Modernist styles, new designs based on traditional examples such as this are in fact just as valid in terms of current international architectural conservation guidelines and in many ways are more appropriate, helping for instance to restore lost character and maintain continuity in this important area of traditional design and craftsmanship.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New shopfront, Kells Traditional style shopfronts contribute so much to the character of our historic towns and villages yet sadly these are now becoming rare, being all too easily replaced&nbsp;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":519,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page_fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-614","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New shopfront, Kells - Liam Mulligan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liammulliganarchitect.ie\/?page_id=614\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New shopfront, Kells - Liam Mulligan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New shopfront, Kells Traditional style shopfronts contribute so much to the character of our historic towns and villages yet sadly these are now becoming rare, being all too easily replaced&nbsp;[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.liammulliganarchitect.ie\/?page_id=614\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Liam Mulligan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.liammulliganarchitect.ie\/?page_id=614\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.liammulliganarchitect.ie\/?page_id=614\",\"name\":\"New shopfront, Kells - Liam Mulligan\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.liammulliganarchitect.ie\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-02T20:46:10+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.liammulliganarchitect.ie\/?page_id=614#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.liammulliganarchitect.ie\/?page_id=614\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.liammulliganarchitect.ie\/?page_id=614#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.liammulliganarchitect.ie\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Small Projects &#038; 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