Lantern House

• Stage: Complete
• Location: Dublin
• Client: Private
• Budget: Undisclosed
• Floor: 420sq.m

On the one hand, this is a period restoration project, as a protected structure it required careful and considered restoration of the historic fabric which was extensive.

On the other hand, it is sharp contemporary home, one that needed significant surgical re-modification.

Demolition was excessive, and essential, in order to release the main original block unit from a number of previous extensions that detracted from the restrained facade of the original house.

In their place, a cluster of new contemporary forms are easily read as new additions, sitting subservient to the main body of the original house. The result is a balance of old and new, a symbiotic relationship that is an evolution from the 19th Century into the 21st.