Dispatches from BCO Conference, Dublin: Mark Kelly, PLP architecture
Peter Songi2025-10-23T16:48:57+01:00Mark Kelly from PLP architecture on the plus side of economic uncertainty, materials research and growing mycelium in the boardroom.
Dispatches from BCO Conference, Dublin: Roger Hawkins, Hawkins\Brown
Peter Songi2025-10-23T16:49:16+01:00Roger Hawkins from Hawkins\Brown on setting up shop in Toronto, establishing a succession plan and taking 30 years to finish the practice's first job.
Dispatches from BCO Conference, Dublin: Alexandra Thorpe, CO-RE
Peter Songi2025-10-23T16:49:29+01:00AT chats to... Alexandra Thorpe from CO–RE about the changing demands from building occupants and the importance of letting cyclists come through the front door.
Dispatches from BCO Conference, Dublin: Peter Fisher, Bennetts Associates
Peter Songi2025-10-23T16:50:11+01:00Peter Fisher from Bennetts Associates on challenging sloppy claims about building performance and holding journalists to account.
Dispatches from BCO Conference, Dublin: Bronte Turner and Pendrick Brown, HLW Design
Peter Songi2025-10-23T16:50:24+01:00AT chats to ... Bronte Turner and Pendrick Brown of HLW Design about how they learn from tech clients and design for neurodiversity.
5 minutes with… David Rooney, HLM Architects
Nelly Greig2026-02-20T17:25:09+00:00AT catches up with HLM Architects' newly appointed Belfast Studio Director David Rooney. Using climate action, retrofit and Passivhaus as catalysts for Northern Ireland’s next chapter in architecture, Rooney explains how HLM Belfast is using people-centred, low-carbon design to deliver lasting civic and community impact.
Dispatches from Dublin: Dan Gleeson, Schüco
Nelly Greig2025-12-11T11:29:04+00:00Dan Gleeson, Sales Director at Schüco UK and Ireland, discusses the increased demand for sustainable façade solutions, and rise in complex refurb projects, making collaboration critical to successful delivery.
Dispatches from Dublin: Andrew Clancy, Clancy Moore Architects
Nelly Greig2026-02-20T17:28:43+00:00Andrew Clancy, Director of Clancy Moore Architects, discusses how working across Ireland, the UK, and Switzerland shapes his approach to European architecture, and highlights the unique strengths and collaborative opportunities each context offers.
5 minutes with… Fiachra McCarthy and Gjiltinë Isufi
Nelly Greig2026-03-20T11:13:44+00:00The winners of The 2026 LINA Writing Award discuss In Deep Trouble: The Trepça Mine, a project commissioned by the Irish Architecture Foundation and produced in collaboration with dpr-barcelona exploring the architecture of the Kosovan mine through it's lift shaft that reaches a depth of 850 metres providing access to a network of kilometres of tunnels.
Dispatches from Egypt: Heneghan Peng on the Grand Egyptian Museum
Nelly Greig2026-03-20T12:32:02+00:00Róisín Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng won the international competition for The Grand Egyptian Museum in 2003 against 1557 entries, with a practice of four. They turned to Snøhetta's Craig Dykers and Nick Schumann for advice, and describe how the practice has changed since.
Dispatches from Berlin: plattenbaustudio
Nelly Greig2026-03-20T12:39:36+00:00Jennifer O'Donnell from plattenbaustudio speaks to AT about their practice: from drawing 'as a means of transmission', to how Berlin made them stay and why Dublin keeps calling them back.