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O’Neill Architecture Recognised in RIAI Emerging Practice Award
Thank you to everybody for the support and help which contributed to us getting this award.
Limerick Newspapers Celebrate Limerick Projects Making The RIAI Awards Shortlist
The Limerick Leader and Limerick Chronicle have both published features on the 2 Limerick projects that made the RIAI awards shortlist – Redeveloped Milk Market and O’Neill Architecture’s ‘Extension To The Rear’ project.
House on the Curve – Architect’s Imagination
It’s 8pm mid summer. All is quite, the workmen have gone home. I am alone in the new space. There is movement behind the curved wall; kids playing on the square, people and cars passing occasionally. Already I get the sense of protection the curved wall will offer although for now I hear the sounds…. Read more »
House on the Curve – continued
The foundations are in, the wall is going up and its beginning to attract attention!
House on the Curve, Nenagh
1st week on-site. Willie McGrath (man with hard-hat) of McGrath Construction built the houses of this estate 10 years ago. A passer-by stated ‘you built the place now you’re taking it apart!’
House On The Curve, Nenagh
Featured on TV ‘ABOUT THE HOUSE’ November 2011 – see extracts from O’Neill Architecture on About The House Featured in – Plan Magazine May/June 2013 Concept The owners main request was for larger, brighter spaces within the house. Given the south west orientation of the front of the house, the space to the side was the… Read more »
Construct Ireland Magazine, March 2011 – Zero Waste Extension, County Limerick
Architect Patti O’Neill’s house extension in Limerick city expresses a design philosophy centred on zero waste. She has taken a range of natural, low embodied energy materials and created a living space that blends smoothly into the suburban landscape. Careful modelling and minute attention to form, orientation and layout make optimum use of solar gain,… Read more »
No Chemicals Please!
I remember our journeys by boat to Dromineer situated on the shores of Lough Derg in North Tipperary. Note the Castle visible in the background! Three decades on it is almost entirely taken over by ivy. This is partially because a fence was put around the structure preventing the ivy from being kept down by… Read more »
Zero Waste Concept
Presently our waste goes into landfill sites. Thank you to Michael of North Tipperary County Council Landfill who gave me a guided tour. I learnt that the waste gets filled and wrapped in thick membrane material which is welded together. When full it gets closed up and a layer of earth is spread over it…. Read more »