Our Strand Road project was featured in The Sunday Times.
The project involves the extension and renovation of a house in Sutton, Dublin 13, created behind a retained 18th-century stone façade. The existing structure provided a strong historical anchor, with the new interventions carefully designed to connect the contemporary home to the history of its site.
The long, narrow, and irregularly shaped site, combined with its east–west orientation, informed a snaking plan form that moves through the house and terminates in a garden room. This plan incorporates two courtyards and an open front-to-back kitchen and living space, creating a sequence of connected internal and external areas.
A glazed gallery overlooking the main living spaces serves the first-floor bedrooms, reinforcing visual connections throughout the house. Salvaged brick and stone from the original structure were reused within the new construction, strengthening the relationship between old and new elements and maintaining continuity with the site’s material history.
The project was Selected for Exhibition at the 2018 RIAI Awards and was included in the Irish Architecture Foundation’s Open House Dublin programme in 2017.
We are very grateful to The Sunday Times for featuring the project and for the opportunity to share Strand Road with their readers.