Whether you’re thinking of extending or building a new house, the benefits of discussing your options with a registered architect are immense: Architects have the skill, imagination and expertise to understand what you are looking for and then visualise and Read More …
Attributed to Winston Churchill and then (in)famously said at a 2008 Wall Street Journal Forum by Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Heres’ the YouTube clip if you’d Read More …
I’ve been thinking about this one for a while and it was reading through ‘the process’ of Bernbaum-Magadini Architects that I thought it would be a help to potential clients to see each stage and what is required and to Read More …
The work of an architect tends (unless you’re a starchitect) to be fairly locally based. But saying that it’s still surprising the spread that the working is taking on; with most of the projects centred around the county I live Read More …
Here’s another ‘Tear Sheet’ done on the two storey contemporary extension we did to this traditional Irish farmhouse in Castlerea, County Roscommon. (Work in progress & will update the photos in 2013) Click on image to open pdf (400k):
I wrote a while back about why being an architect is the best job in the world and the best jobs come from the exceptional clients and a few of the photos came from a project mid-construction that reinforces all Read More …
A long overdue post continuing the series on ‘The Things they don’t teach at architect’s school’: In case you’ve missed them, here are the previous posts: Most projects don’t go ahead Architecture is War! The architect is translator/interpreter The architect Read More …
Currently I’m in the process of writing two Conservation Reports for projects in Galway and Mayo and I’m surprising myself at how much I’m enjoying them. The Planning Application process for a Protected (Listed in UK) Structure in Ireland is Read More …
Now you know I have done some complaining in the past over builders but really Irish builders (and using my own area, West / Connacht) as an example, here’s why: 1. They can build from anything A lot of my Read More …
An interesting question this one. The question arose when I added this new ‘Tear Sheet’ on a project from a while back to the website: And realised that there was an incredible amount of interiors work that I ended up Read More …
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