Creating beautiful spaces for...
• Gortaclare Road Distillery
...living, working and enjoying. 2020 Architects are one of Irelands most popular and in-demand residential Architectural Practices. With a base in Ballymoney and a second office in Roscommon, they have projects across the whole of Ireland and the UK. Known for their unique and award-winning homes, 2020 Architects have recently crossed over into the world of commercial architecture. Ulster Tatler speaks with one of the Founding Partners, Richard McKinney, on this exciting new growth area and what the practice brings to commercial design.
• Wedding Venue on the drawing board.
Tell us about the exciting projects you have in the commercial sector. We found ourselves designing commercial buildings initially because we had designed family homes for clients, they enjoyed the unusual personal approach we bring to the process and asked us to subsequently design a commercial building for them. This has led us to design a number of really exciting projects including distilleries across Ireland, unique wedding venues, tourism accommodation, apartments, and restaurants.
• Portrush Café
Richard, tell us about 2020 Architects. It is a really exciting time in 2020 Architects. We are 10 years old as a practice this year, are in the process of moving into our own bespoke offices, and are kept incredibly busy by both our fantastic clients and a fast-growing Irish sister company. We have always been really passionate about the idea that good design should be available to everyone and as such, we offer
a range of unique architectural services on top of the traditional architectural design service. We have the incredibly popular 2020 Design Review where anyone can have a second opinion on their design before they go ahead and spend significant money on the construction. We also offer a remote design service, providing designs for anyone in any geographic location across the world.
What do you think 2020 Architects bring to the commercial architecture sector? Our background is working closely with clients on their family homes, it is the close relationship with our clients that allows us to design their homes and it is this same relationship that we bring across to our commercial work. These are projects and buildings with which our clients are really emotionally attached, and their success is down to that personal relationship we bring to every project. It may be commercial design work, but it definitely isn’t cold or corporate.
49 Main Street, Ballymoney, Co Antrim BT53 6AN, Northern Ireland 028 276 67999 info@2020architects.co.uk www.2020architects.co.uk
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