IDI Award for Best House for third time in four years

Mark, Jane and Cormac attended the 2025 Institute of Designers Ireland Awards at the RDS at the end of last year and were delighted to pick up the award for Best House for our recent project 'Meadow of Eva'. This is the third time in four years that ALWA has received this award.

We were also delighted to have our work recognised by three additional commendations, one for Best House (‘On the Bay’ in Connemara) and two for Best residential Interiors ('On the Bay' and 'House on a Victorian Square'). It was a wonderful event at the RDS in Dublin and it was lovely to catch up with old friends and colleagues from the creative industries.

Many thanks to the jury, our clients and collaborators and congratulations to all nominees and winners.

@idi_ireland

Irish Design Institute Awards 2025

We were delighted to win the award for Best House at the Institute of Designers Ireland (IDI) Awards for the third time in the last four years along with three commendations. It was a wonderful event at the RDS in Dublin and it was lovely to catch up with old friends and colleagues from the creative industries.

Many thanks to the jury and congratulations to all nominees and winners.

@idi_ireland

ALWA win RIAI Award for Living in a Landscape

ALWA have won the award for Best House in the Living category of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) Awards 2024 for Living in a Landscape. Thank you to the RIAI and the jury for their visit to the house and the following citation: “This design approach is an exemplar in providing a beautiful home while improving the public realm. The new home is located below road level, revealing a new panorama for all. The site slopes to the north, facing the views, presenting a challenge for illuminating the internal spaces naturally. This is dealt with very successfully with courtyards and sunken gardens, achieving an impressive dual aspect space for the main living space. A timeless piece sitting beautifully in its landscape.” Thank you to our wonderful clients, contractors and the rest of the design team.

Living in a Landscape wins for best Residential Architecture at the 2023 IDI Awards

Living in a Landscape wins for best Residential Design at the 2023 IDI Awards

ALWA director Mark Arigho collecting the IDI award for winner in Residential Design 2023

ALWA director Jane Larmour collecting the IDI Award for winner in Residential Architecture 2023

ALWA are shortlisted at the IDI Awards 2023

Congratulations: Architectural Review Student Prize

Delighted for Alex Knowles one of Jane Larmour's Queens University Belfast Graduates from her 2021-22 Master Studio 'In Praise of Adaptation' (co-tutored with Keith McAllister, QUB) who has just been awarded the Students Prize in The Architectural Review Future Awards for his work during their year spent on the National Trust Northern Ireland's Mount Stewart Estate last year. The award is given to a project that is 'propositional, experimental and radical'. Congratulations Alex on a beautiful and thought provoking thesis - very well deserved.

#inpraiseofadaptation #queensuniveristybelfast #architectureatqueens #architecturethesisproject

https://www.architectural-review.com/awards/ar-future-projects/the-winners-of-the-2023-ar-future-projects-awards-have-been-announced

Recency Cottage features in Irish Times - Home and Design

WINNER in Architectural Design at the IDI Awards 2022

WINNER in Interior Design: Residential at the IDI Awards 2022

Victorian House in Blackrock features in THE GLOSS

ALWA Finalists AREA Emerging. Architecture Awards

We were pleased to recieve our Finalist Certificate for the Architectural Review World Architecture Festival Emerging Architecture Awards and to have been in such esteemed global company in the shortlist.

ALWA Shortlisted for AR Emerging Architecture Awards 2020

Thanks to the Architectural Review for hosting a brilliant event last Friday, November 2021, to announce the AREA Emerging Architects Award 2020. It was wonderful to contribute, and to hear from the other shortlisted practices from around the world. Such an exciting and diverse list. Congratulations to the winner, Carles Enrich Architects, Barcelona, and to the jury Manuel Aires Mateus, Dorte Mandrup, Sameep Padora and Maria Smith.

Photo of House in the Woods, ALWA, by Ros Kavanagh

https://www.architectural-review.com/awards/ar-emerging-architecture/ar-emerging-architecture-2020-shortlist-revealed

ALWA among global finalists in Emerging Architecture Awards

Architects Journal article on the upcoming AR World Architecture Festival Emerging Architecture Award in which ALWA are finalists. https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/uk-talent-among-global-finalists-for-ar-emerging-architecture-prize

ALWA Welcomes Matthew Kernan to the team

ALWA welcomes Matthew Kernan to the team. We're delighted to have him on board!

Matthew is a registered Architect in the UK with ARB. Having completed his Part I studies in Queen's University Belfast, he moved to London in 2013 to practice with Foster + Partners for 2 years working on a range of projects of various scales between Asia, Europe & North America.

Upon returning to Queen's to complete his Part II, Matthew graduated with Distinction in 2017 and was awarded the highest post-graduate student award in Ireland, the RIAI Excellence Award as well as winning the international RIBAJ Eyeline competition for his thesis drawings and invited to publish his work in UC Berkeley's bi-annual architecture publication.

As a Part II, Matthew has gained further professional experience in Clancy Moore Architects, Dublin & Hall McKnight, Belfast. During this period, he has been invited to Architecture schools in Belfast and London to give talks on his representation & presentation techniques. In 2019, as part of a trio in a team, Matthew won the RSUA open design competition for 'Early Career Architects' focused on City & Play, with their project titled 'SoundYard' that has recently been completed on Belfast historic Titanic Quarter along the Maritime Mile.

RIBA Eyeline Drawing Competition

ALWA sketch of Ireland House Irish Embassy Project Entry Longlisted for the RIBA Eyeline Competition.

https://www.ribaj.com/culture/eye-line-drawing-competition-the-power-of-drawing

QUB End of year Book 2021

Congratulations to all our students and colleagues for another gret year at QUB Architecture. The Architecture at Queen's, Belfast, Northern Ireland, End of Year Book 2020 - 2021 can be viewed online here...

https://issuu.com/architectureatqueens/docs/qub_eoyb_2021_issuu_210623

Planning permission granted for House Dublin Mountains

Delighted to announce that House Dublin Mountains has been granted full planning permission by Dunlaoghaire Rathdown County Council.

Read more about this project here.