Alder Architects

Alder Architects is a multidisciplinary practice based in Dublin & Cork. We enjoy applying our design skills to projects at all scales and therefore do not specialise in a particular building type - instead focusing on inventive use of materials and light. We place a strong emphasis on collaboration and participation with clients, communities and artists. Commissions to date have included new residential & commercial buildings, extensions to existing structures, workplace design and public installations.

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St. John Walsh Director BScArch, BArch, PgDiph, mRIAI

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St John established Alder Architects in 2016 having gained over 10 years experience working with award winning architecture practices in Ireland and the UK on a range of projects from small scale domestic commissions to large public  and commercial buildings.

 

While working with Donaghy & Dimond Architects in Dublin, he was project architect on both Inchicore National School & the Gate Lodge extension in Rathfarnham, respectively awarded RIAI Awards for Best Educational Building & Domestic Extension in 2015. With AY Architects, he was project architect on Eleanor Palmer Science Lab, built for Eleanor Palmer Primary School in Camden, which has been awarded a RIBA London Award for 2019. He has also worked with Scott Tallon Walker & BDP architects on award-winning large scale commercial & residential projects.

 

Having studied in Dublin and Copenhagen, St. John graduated from UCD in 2010 with a first class honours degree and continues to be involved in academia. Currently in the role of design studio tutor at the UCD School of Architecture, he has previously acted as a visiting critic at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture and studio mentor at the Royal College of Art London.

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Collaborators; Gillian Brady, Liam McInerney, Eoín Murphy, Colm Weakliam, Nicola Kenny

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