When you do this you'll show you know about architecture…(thanks Jamie Oliver)

I was watching Jamie Oliver doing dome Christmas recipes this week and one of them stood out over something he said at the end: The recipe was for ‘Frozen grapes, chocolate & grappa’; sexy photo from JamieOliver.com below, and CLICK Read More …

A Seasons Greeting mp3 message from Mark Stephens Architects

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Mark Stephens Architects Click on PLAY below for a Seasons Greeting mp3 message: A special thanks to Natalie Cooper ( @voiceovergirl – Professional voice-over artiste)

Cycle against suicide Mon 22nd April – Sun 5th May with @CASuicide

A non architecture related post! Cycle Against Suicide is an initiative started by Irish entrepreneur, Jim Breen, as a result of his appearance on RTE’s The Secret Millionaire programme. The main objective of the Cycle is to raise awareness of Read More …

Anyone building or contemplating a build should get a medal…

Anyone building or contemplating a build should get a medal… We’re living in difficult times and anyone that contemplates building should be applauded. To that effect I propose that these brave souls are given a medal: Bronze = Contemplating a Read More …

Mini update on rural house, structures & application to cycling & knee physiology!

A quickie update on the glazed section on a rural house we’re working on in Mayo: The design concept has been discussed briefly as one of the ‘Sun tracking Designs and variations in the story’ and this one has a Read More …

Triathlon, Architecture, sharing and why I blog…

The faithful readers will know that I attended a triathlon coaching weekend a while back run by Triathlon Ireland; and as well as being excellent and thoroughly enjoyable (and also hard work and pushing the comfort zone); it taught me Read More …

Will we ever put blinds on our house [poll] + coolest house on film

I love a blog post – Combo: 1. Will we ever put blinds on our house Mash-up with: 2. The coolest house included in a film: Following on from yesterdays blog post on A LONG OVERDUE JOB ON THE HOUSE Read More …

The ubiquitous 'Year in Review 2012…' of Mark Stephens Architects:

I’ve been doing these a few years now on this blog and it’s interesting looking back on them: Year in review 2010 Year in review 2011 What’s interesting as you look over the years are the projects that are being Read More …

Why architecture is like baseball & sex

Go with me on this one… It’s more of an Americanism but being exposed to US TV for a substantial amount of time cannot but expose you to the concept of ‘getting to first base’ as an adolescent euphemism or Read More …