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23 Leinster Road, an extensive refurbishment of a three storey over basement protected Georgian townhouse into three apartments by A2, features on RTE’s ‘Home of The Year’. The architect’s crucial role in all stages of this complex project from inception through to completion included full input on planning, conservation, building control, detail design of fixtures and finishes, co-ordination of building services, cost control, building energy rating and compliance with all statutory requirements such as fire safety and disability access.

The exterior of House on Sky Road, Clifden begins to be weathered by rain

A2 are delighted to be nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture for Folding House, Mardyke Walk, Cork City. Folding House is one of nine projects nominated in Ireland this year.

House at Sky Road, Clifden, Co. Galway reaches roof level. A sheltered entrance courtyard is made as a threshold to the principal living space with a sea view beyond. The raised roof beams rest to one side on a bedroom wing and to the other side on a utility wing.

A2 are delighted to be working on a rapid delivery housing scheme of twelve terraced two-bedroom houses in the heart of Dun Laoghaire Town Centre due for construction in early 2017 (DLR Architects Dept.: Design Architects / A2 Architects: Enabling Architects)

The concrete formwork for the main beams of House on Sky Road, Clifden, Co. Galway has been struck

A 40 metre long insitu concrete beam is cast in Sky Road Co. Galway. Unlike the meandering stone walls of the fields below the 1.1 metre high beam strikes an emphatic, horizontal line spanning from one hill to another.

A2 Architects in collaboration with The Office of Public Works are currently on site with the refurbishment and additions to Ennis Garda Station, Co. Clare. Works include an upgrading of the former RIC Barracks (pictured), new universal access entrances, new forensics laboratories, new archives, new locker areas and external works.

A2 win ‘Best House’ for Folding House, Mardyke, Cork City at the RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2016. A2 previously won “Best House’ for Seaside House Co. Louth in 2011.

A2 are delighted to go to tender on our first public housing scheme in Sallynoggin, Co. Dublin. The 10no. A2 energy-rated units are built of brick and share a landscaped space incorporating a pocket garden, seating, refuse storage, bicycle racks and grassed car parking. The housing is due for completion in mid 2017 (DLR Architects Dept.: Design Architects / A2 Architects: Enabling Architects)

Incorporating plans, models, photographs and films, the exhibition and book DEMO:POLIS by Akademie der Künste Berlin illustrates how architects, city planners, artists, students and the general public design and use public space. Examples range from Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York, to Granby Park in Dublin, to the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin. The exhibition shows spatial designs that affect both small squares as well as entire strips of coast. It displays documentation from demonstrations and critical art interventions and gives insights into the work of successful bottom-up initiatives for safeguarding public spaces. Viewers are invited to take part in interactive discussion events to co-create the cities of the future. On display are works by Barkow & Leibinger, Foster + Partners, Hans Haacke, A2 Architects and Seán Harrington Architects, Kleihues + Kleihues, Lacaton & Vassal, Andrés Mignucci, Elfi Mikesch, Rozana Montiel, Michael Najjar, Sadar + Vuga, Michael van Valkenburgh, Wermke/Leinkauf, Zuloark, et al.