A2 complete the restoration of the Land Agent’s Cottage on Scattery Island, Co. Clare for the Office of Public Works.
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A2’s Gate Lodge, Beechville, Co. Meath wins ‘Best House’ at the RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2025. the Jury praised the house for “its confident, modest design that complements the rural setting. The house features thoughtful, intentional details and an interior layout designed to maximise natural light”.
A2 are delighted to have our Gate Lodge, Beechville, Co. Meath published in the RIBA Journal. With thanks to Flo Armitage Shanks for here wonderful article.
A2 and DLR Architects of DLRCoCo are delighted to be finalists for the European Prize for Urban Public Space for the Redevelopment of DLR Baths. From its inception, this Prize has aimed to recognise and make known the best works creating, recovering and improving public space in Europe. Well aware of the ambiguities inherent in the notion of public space, this is the only prize in Europe which recognises and promotes a space that is both public (open and of universal access) and urban. The Prize is therefore different from other initiatives focused on the figure of the architect, and awards given for landscaping projects, since it draws attention to the relational and civic nature of typically urban space. A2 presented our project in Barcelona before a jury including Beth Galí, Beate Hølmebakk and Manon Mollard.
A2 are appointed to re-imagine the former Krups Factory in Roxboro, Limerick City Limerick Enterprise Development Partnership.
Phase 2 of Dún Laoghaire Baths Redevelopment with the Architects Department from DLRCoCo is completed – a series of accessible ramps, platforms, gardens, viewing points and benches elongate towards East Pier. People gather here naturally – full of life, people eating ice cream, chatting, sitting around, walkers, skaters, swimmers – a real public space, and unique because of the sound, the light and smell of the sea. The long bench seats, undulating ground and changes in level connect the public to the beach with a wonderful sense of theatre.
‘Building Back Better 2 – Odesa’ brought together students and academics from University of Limerick, Kharkiv School of Architecture, University of Brno, Umea University Sweden and professionals to explore approaches to the sustainable reconstruction of the city. This international workshop has been running for two years with the previous iteration exploring the sustainable re-imagining of the Dnipro River and the re-building of the city of Dnipro. Bi-located in both Warsaw and Lviv over two weeks, we zoomed out (WARSAW GROUP) and we zoomed in (LVIV GROUP). We worked primarily across the large groups of SEA and CITY. Given Odesa’s coastal relationship to the sea as well as its hinterland relationship to the Pontic-Caspian Steppe zone there was a lot to consider in terms of history, sea level rise, river basins, pollution, agriculture, water quality, drainage, urban nature, trade, war and the ongoing geo-political context and indeed myth and story. In Warsaw we made a hanging tapestry of the Black Sea SEA with further suspended models of architectural episodes to represent each new story at the re-imagined macro-scale. SCALE Team: Peter Carroll / Hanna Chernat / Norman Price / Steve Heuchert / Ruth Minogue.
Beechville Gate Lodge, Co. Meath is completed. A2 Project Architect Glen O’Dea
Paulstown House, Co. Kilkenny – A2 Project Architects Raissa Zanardo with Georgy Daly
A2 are delighted to win a limited competition to design the proposed Worship Hall in the grounds of St. Patrick’s Church, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. A free-standing, triangular form in plan, section and elevation, the church space will be constructed in larch with an overhanging copper roof to create a benched seating area and entrance beneath. A2 Project Architect: David Cooney.
