Jane Burnside

architect

Principal Jane D Burnside Architects

Jane Burnside is one of Ireland’s foremost architects specialising in the design of contemporary homes.  Her formidable reputation for design integrity coupled with care in construction has led to her Origami House receiving both RIAI and RIBA Award recognition in 2009. 

Jane Burnside had her first introduction to custom design houses working on a $10million mill conversion with internationally renowned American architect Michael Graves.  She went on to win the coveted British Rome Prize in Architecture before bringing her Italian experience to the design of the RIBA Award winning Waterfront Hall in Belfast. Burnside continued to develop her design philosophies through her appointment as Lecturer to Queen’s University Department of Architecture, Visiting Professorships and External Examiner appointments.

Established in 1994, Jane D Burnside Architects is renowned for its excellence in blending contemporary architecture into landscape settings and has an enviable client list from all over Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe and the United States.

Her commitment to raising the level of design in the countryside and her expertise in this field has led to her involvement as advisor to the Chairman of the Environment Committee at Stormont during the drafting of the new rural planning legislation (PPS21).

Triona Stack, 1972

architect

associate O'Donnell + Tuomey architects

 Triona graduated from the School of Architecture University College Dublin in 1995, gaining a master’s degree in 1997 (B Arch M Arch Sc MRIAI ARB). From 1995 to 2003 she tutored Building Technology Studio at the School of Architecture UCD.

Triona worked as an architect in Donnelly Turpin Architects and OMS Architects from 1997 to 2004, where she was responsible for various projects including the design and planning application for a 118 acre centre city Urban Design project in Dublin. She worked in London for Niall McLaughlin Architects 2004-2005. During his time with NMLA she worked on the detailed design of the Burren House in Dublin.

Triona joined O’Donnell + Tuomey in 2005 and was made an Associate in 2006. She was associate in charge of several of the firms projects including: Knockmore Housing and Childcare Centre; Adamstown Commerical, Sleeping Giant House Killiney. More recently she is associate in charge of the Coleraine Museum and Library; Lyric Theatre Belfast; and the Student Union Trinity College Dublin.

O’Donnell + Tuomey has an international reputation for design quality. ODT’s reputation is based to a large extent on the innovative nature of their designs, and on their capacity to successfully integrate contemporary architecture with historic context. Innovation in approach to site, to the brief, sustainable materials and service systems, to expression of function are all inherent in their approach to designing buildings.

Triona has been a member of the Irish Concrete Society Council since 2008.

Philippe O'Sullivan, 1966

Architect

Associate Director Grafton Architects

Graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology in 1990. He joined GA in 1992 and was made Associate Director in 1998

Grafton Architects have always been aware of and engage with the production of contemporary architecture. The philosophy of treating each new project as a new area to explore, supported by significant previous experience, produces buildings appropriate to use and location, combining a richness of materials with a refined spatial quality. This philosophy is most clearly demonstrated in some of the practices recent works including Luigi Bocconi University Milan , The Department of Finance Dublin and the Drogheda Fire and Rescue Centre .

Philippe has taught Building Technology in DIT and tutors Materials Workshop at the University of Limerick.

Raphael Zuber 

architect ETH/SIA

principal Raphael Zuber architect

Raphael Zuber studied architecture until 2001 at ETH Zürich. In the same year

he opened a practice with Helena Brobäck in Riva San Vitale, in 2003 his own

practice in Chur.

His first major building is the schoolhouse and kindergarten in Grono which

will be completed in 2010. Among his major projects are the Ethnographic

Museum in Neuchâtel, a living and storage house in Maienfeld and a school

building in Kirchberg.

His articles and works have been published in several journals including 2G,

Quaderns and Werk Bauen und Wohnen.

As a Teaching associate he taught at Cornell University, New York and as a

guest professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. In 2009 he is

teaching as a lecturer at the Accademia di architettura Mendrisio at the

Università della Svizzera italiana.