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Módh Eile House

Housing Módh Eile House COPE Galway
i A project of adaptive re-use, extension and conservation works transforms Galway's old Magdelene Laundry for COPE to provide domestic refuge apartments, winner of Irish Council for Social Housing Award.

Civic County Chamber Galway County Council
i A light-filled extension and refurbishment project within the existing council building centres local democracy upon a woven abstract map by Connemara Carpets of County Galway's landscape and colours.

Housing / Placemaking 23 Dwellings Cluain Pádraig, Westport
i An innovative low-rise, high-density scheme provides 23 own-door dwellings, with a courtyard street-front enclosing a shared garden, Irish Architecture & shortlisted for Silver Medal for Housing Awards.

Óstán An Chuain

Hotel / Leisure Óstán An Chuain Galway
i A high-quality proposal was designed to planning stage on the Wild Atlantic Way for a new 3-storey 80-bedroomed hotel with a swimming pool, associated houses, craft food and beverage innovation hub.

Thermoking R&D Centre

OFFICE / MANUFACTURING Thermoking R&D Centre Galway
i SJK’s design for a new research and development office building is currently under construction at the Galway campus of Thermoking, an established global leader in supply-chain transport refrigeration technology.

Hotel / Leisure Glenlo Abbey Galway
i SJK are retained by the 5-star Glenlo Abbey Hotel to carry out strategic master-planning of its grounds, detail designs for new accommodation and leisure buildings and completed refurbishment of bedrooms and bar facilities.

OFFICE / MANUFACTURING HID Global Mervue Business Park, Galway
i A FDI project is under construction for HID Global, a world-leading physical and digital security technologies company, to provide 5,000m² of industrial production and 3,000m² of corporate office space.

RETAIL / STUDENT HOUSING Cleverson Headford Road, Galway
i Planning permission is granted, and detail design is underway to provide 250 student bedspaces and retail outlets in a new 7-storey building on the Headford Road to exemplar urban design standards.

Ionad Cultúrtha an Phiarsaigh

CULTURAL Ionad Cultúrtha an Phiarsaigh Ros Muc, Galway
i A visitors’ centre, exhibition space and café set in the Connemara landscape interprets Pearse's cottage as a state centenary project featured in the Irish Arts Review and Irish Architecture Awards.

Ursuline College

Secondary School Ursuline College Sligo
i Planning Application has been lodged with detail design progressing for the adaptive re-use of historic structures integrating with new extensions, sustaining secondary education in a modernized 750 pupil campus.

Gaelcholáiste an Phiarsaigh

SECONDARY SCHOOL Gaelcholáiste an Phiarsaigh Rathfarnham, Dublin
i A flagship project in association with www.fkp.ie to refurbish protected structures and integrate accessibility via a new glazed concourse sustaining 21st century education at this 500 pupil historic campus.

Loreto National School

Primary School Loreto National School Rathfarnham, Dublin
i Tender design is underway for a 3-storey courtyard building integrated with re-used historic structures and gardens, developing an innovative model for shared learning spaces for 650 pupils in collaboration with DoES.

Saint Canice’s Co-Educational School

Primary School Saint Canice’s Co-Educational School Kilkenny
i SJK designed a joyous and light-filled city courtyard school for 650 pupils, amongst mature trees to planning / D+B bid stage of a NDFA-led multiple school project in consortium with Atkins and McCullough Mulvin.

Presentation College

SECONDARY SCHOOL Presentation College Kilkenny
i SJK master-planned and designed an innovative 1000 pupil, figure-of-8 double-courtyard campus to planning / D+B bid stage as part of a NDFA-led multiple school project in consortium with Atkins and McCullough Mulvin.

Primary School Scoil Mhuire Monivea, Co. Galway
i A modest 350 pupil village school is punctuated with joyful flourishes, references local craft, and promotes design standards of this typology in collaboration with the DoES. Irish Architecture & Public Choice Awards.

Primary SCHOOL Scoil Phádraig Westport, Mayo
i "When you walk through the doors of our new school for the first time, you get a magical feeling" — 6th class student. Nominated Mies van Der Rohe EU prize. Irish Architecture & Public Choice Awards.

SHB2: 480 Dwellings

Housing SHB2: 480 Dwellings Waterford, Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Macroom, Shannon, Galway
i SJK, in association with Gerry Cahill, designed terraced townhouses, own-door roof-deck duplexes and courtyard apartments, making new streets and squares at six towns for the NDFA's SHB2 PPP project.

Housing 17 Dwellings Bearna, Galway
i Construction is complete of SJK's design of a scheme of innovative housing including new 3-storey courtyard houses with upper floor living and roof terraces overlooking a shared village green, with sea views.

Housing 49 Dwellings Moycullen, Co. Galway
i SJK designed to planning and tender stages a scheme for a primary care centre and terraces of dwellings based on vernacular design principals around a shared fairgreen adjoining Moycullen village.

About Team SJK Galway & Westport
i Three directors, eleven architects, six technologists and two administrative staff creating space for joy in buildings and in business.

Mass Timber Construction

Zero-Carbon Mass Timber Construction Research & Development
i SJK develops ideas as research and capacity to embrace the realities of resources and climate in collaboration with public and private clients who are ready for the transition to responsive development modes.

Modular Construction Post-Pandemic Housing Research & Development
i SJK seeks collaborator-client to advance concept to disentangle housing crisis: economy of scale with two repeat modules, configurable to choice of dwelling, arranged in streets of liveable neighbourhoods.

Here’s a selection of recent SJK work
in housing, place-making, education,
adaptive re-use, retail, workplace,
manufacturing, cultural, civic, leisure
and hotel design projects.

Established in 1954, SJK has a record of providing our clients with proper design, personable service and professional efficiency. SJK’s work thrives on collaborative relationships. Our experienced team is skilled in the delivery of complex buildings for both public and private clients. For more information or enquiries please contact Edel, Elaine or Dermot.

SJK Team

Edel Tobin
etobin@sjk.ie

Elaine Naughton
enaughton@sjk.ie

Dermot McCabe
dmccabe@sjk.ie

Edel, Elaine and Dermot joined SJK Architects in 2004 and lead the practise since 2013. Each SJK project seeks to make a positive contribution and to create space for joy. Together with our team, SJK’s hard work is rewarded and recognised in winning numerous design awards.

21 Middle Street,
Galway
+ 353 91 56 2949

Cox’s Yard,
Westport, Mayo
+ 353 98 24 414

Email:
mail@sjk.ie