DEMOLITION - WHO KNOWS, WHO CARES?

Very excited to announce that Islander are one of 24 Spark projects to be awarded funding under the Creative Climate Action Fund II: Agents of Change

Our New Studio.

Extremely excited to finally open our new studio on Dublin Street, Balbriggan! We have consciously located our practice in Balbriggan town to be at the heart of exploring the relationships the suburbs, towns and villages have with the architecture that makes them.

Thank you to Our Balbriggan and Fingal Co. Council for their support with the shopfront contribution scheme 2023.

Laura & Ciarán both grew up in housing estates and are fascinated with the successes and pitfalls of housing developments of this type: their territory, privacy, personalisation, play and communality, are all areas that interest us.

Our main aim for Reimagining Elderhood was to find out how people live in these estates, within our study area of Balbriggan, and engage with a group of older men and younger women to test ways these housing estates could be developed by their residents to allow them to age in place with dignity.

Delighted that our work published in this year’s RIAI House + Design Magazine.

We will be exhibiting our work at Making Neighbourhoods, a national seminar exploring creative approaches to community-led neighbourhood making.

The seminar includes panel conversations, provocations, and workshops and takes place on Thursday, June 8th, at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, in partnership with Self-Organised Architecture and Cloughjordan Co-Housing.

The RIAI have released an updated and expanded edition of their guide, Working with an Architect and we are delighted to have our work included in the publication.

The guide showcases the exceptional value an Architect provides throughout a project and addresses many of the common queries raised by clients.

Delighted that our Curve Appeal project is featured in the home magazine in The Sunday Times for the article 11 Questions to Ask Your Architect.

Islander Architects are proud to have declared our commitment to working with our clients & suppliers to raise awareness on the need for sustainable design solutions.

Ciarán is speaking today at the New Habitats conference at SETU Waterford about the role of participatory design in architectural practice.

Laura was invited as one of 25 TU Dublin graduates & staff to share her thoughts on working in the built environment for International Women's Day 2023.

We were delighted to be invited to present our work and facilitate an interactive workshop for the ABC Culture Conference in Armagh.

Lovely to begin the year with Image interiors Magazine discussing our project in Balbriggan.

We're delighted to be showing off a recently completed extension project as part of The Irish Architecture Foundation’s Open House Dublin this year.

We were delighted to be invited by Architecture at the Edge to devise a public engagement workshop in Galway City for their the AATE festival.

We devised a series of workshops with Loreto Balbriggan’s Transition Year students & the Men’s Shed Balbriggan for our reimagine elderhood research.

Thanks to our wonderful hosts at New Ground Co-housing in High Barnet, London.They were extremely generous with their time and knowledge, guiding us through their experience of co-housing.

Islander were chosen as one of three practices to explore the future housing needs of people currently in mid-life in Ireland, and the role of community- led approaches in providing innovative responses to this challenge.

Islander Architects were chosen for the Town Ecologies co-design & community engagement programme. The context was the rural village of Dunnamaggin, Co. Kilkenny.

Islander Architects were chosen for the Town Ecologies co-design & community engagement programme. The context was the rural village of Dunnamaggin, Co. Kilkenny.