
RIAl Annual Review 2011/2012 – Zero Waste

Article on O’Neill Architecture’s ‘Island Dwelling’ project. This article featured in the European Journal of Masonry – Mauerwerk June 2013.
This book, ‘Placing Architecture’ sets a new direction for architecture which changes the way we live with our environment. It is an intuitively-led methodology useful to students, architects, landscape architects, designers and artists in achieving more connectivity to our immediate surroundings and here and now.
Must sustainable architecture shift away from 20th century aesthetics, leaving behind the oil and resource-fuelled optimism of modernism? Must sustainable architecture not only address but express the threats posed by climate change and resource scarcity? Architects Patt O’Neill and Sharon O’Brien describe the influences and the methodology that underpin their visions of environmentally orientated architecture.
“This allowed light into a dark and dreary room and resulted in lower heating bills for the client,”
said the RIAI.