Recommended Architect for house extension

davidx40

Anyone recommend a architect for house extension in Ferrybank

spankmemunkey

Dermot Bannon, he's seems to be no 1 in Ireland

invara

It depends on the type of house and what you are trying to achieve. Architects are very much horses for courses. It is a world of difference doing a sensitive change on a one-hundred-year-old house, against trying to glass box a 1970s bungalow.

Make a list of what you want functionally (list of rooms, spaces and their functions), and in terms of ethos. Walk through your neighbourhood and see if anyone has accomplished what you want on a similar type of house (look at the council site for the plans)- normally people have the same kind of problems (working from home, change in family structure, too many kids, lack of light, storage, rooms). It is a bad idea to expect the architect to solve your problems if you do not have them thought out.

Check out their websites after snooping here: https://www.riai.ie/

So, IMHO for sensitive projects James Reynolds and Ken Wiggam tend to be called. For more hardcore modernity try Rojo or Tom Finnegan. For something of a blend, modern interventions into older are more challenging briefs I like dhb and David Smyth. I am sure that kind of positioning annoys them all. But check out the work and find the right vibe- all of them have great reference work.