Projects Archive - Altu Architects Brochure

The vision of the Clonburris SDZ is to provide a new sustainable mixed-use town of 9,000+ households on a high-capacity rail line to the west of Dublin. ALTU Architects have been working as part of a multi-disciplinary Design Team, for Cairn Homes to realise the first Urban Centre (Cooper’s Square) to service the community.

ALTU Architects have provided master-planning and architectural services to the project, obtaining a Planning Grant in Q3 2023.

ALTU are delivery Architects from RIAI stages 4 – 8, delivering the first citizenM Hotel in Ireland.

CitizenM is an expanding worldwide hotel brand with 31 hotel in 9 countries. Established in 2008, citizenM provides affordable luxury, allowing travellers to stay in central locations in the world’s most exciting cities at an affordable price.

The 9-storey, 245 bed hotel will host two galleries, meeting rooms and a large terrace courtyard.

The development objective is to create a vibrant mixed-use Urban Centre to serve the emerging New Town of Seven Mills. Located beside Kishoge Train Station, Seven Mills Exchange Square is an inclusive neighbourhood designed to a sustainable density that will anchor the shopping, employment and civic needs the growing community.

ALTU Architects were appointed by Cairn Homes to provide Masterplanning and Architectural Services, leading to a Planning Grant in April 2024.

Incorporating high quality public realm, extensive cycle and walking routes, the development provides an improved integration with the existing Train station and the community.

The dwellings are being designed to a PassivHaus Standard to create quality homes that leave a minimal impact on the environment and lower energy costs to the occupier.

We are thrilled to be partnering with Dunnes Stores for their upcoming store project on Crumlin Road. The vision for the project is to replace the existing dated and largely vacant Crumlin Shopping Centre with a new mixed-use shopping centre development. The new Dunnes anchor will be located on the ground floor, alongside service retail units and independent food and beverage offers. The overall footprint of the proposed building is 16,892 sqm, with an overall height of 12.9m. The design features a uniquely shaped roof, resembling a wave, which will serve as a distinct visual landmark for the new building. The planned shopping centre will not only invigorate the area, but also benefit the community with the addition of cafés, florist, medical centre, gym, and food market. A mobility hub is also planned to promote multi-modal transport, and the incorporation of improved landscaping will transform the site’s appearance. The transportation and traffic design was developed to allow for seamless integration with the future Bus Connect network. To support the expansion of Dublin’s EV charging network, the car park has been future-proofed for future charging points, including 80 EV spaces in the first instance.

Located behind the Clonsilla Inn in Dublin 15, this residential development delivers 170 high-quality apartments and duplexes across seven blocks, with generous public and communal open spaces. The scheme includes a café, childcare facility, landscaped courtyards, a public park, play areas, and a nature walk. With a focus on sustainable transport, it provides extensive bike parking and improved pedestrian and cycle access. The development aims to create a vibrant, well-connected community with thoughtful urban design and placemaking.

ALTU were engaged by Aviva (formerly Friends First) to undertake a strategic and multi-faceted redevelopment of their Blackrock Estate portfolio, which includes Blackrock Village Centre. The existing Village Centre was in decline suffering from degrading fabric, urban disconnection and a poor pedestrian experience. Through refurbishment and the creation of memorable architectural moment it has been given a new lease of life.

Inspired by the feeling of walking through a forest, a new glazed canopy with dappled natural light flooding through floats above the center, supported by slender structural trees creating a unique and playful experience. Open to air, the pedestrian connection to Blackrock Village is reinforced and strengthened.

The degrading external and internal façades have been upgraded to consolidate the re-generation of Blackrock Village Centre.

The works were carried out whilst the Centre remained open and tenants traded throughout the programme, which represented a unique and challenging constraint successfully managed by ALTU.

The brief for Zurich House was to remodel an early 1980’s office building to create a modern efficient office floor plates generating a contemporary corporate headquarters facility. Following a detailed options analysis undertaken by ALTU, the most economically advantageous solution was deemed to consist of the demolition of the existing sub-optimal office space replacing it with a new larger structure which meets the brief requirements of the client and the needs of its Grade A tenants.

The vision for the design, was to provide a high quality architecturally designed office building, that meets modern workplace expectations, while being responsive to its location on Frascati Road. The building has two distinct forms to address the meeting point of two different distinct conditions, which is also echoed in the building’s material selection.

Blanchardstown Centre is one of Ireland’s largest and long standing Shopping Centres, originally constructed in 1996. Twenty five years later, the mall needed a refresh to create a modern experience and inject a new lease of life to the Centre.

ALTU were engaged to carry out the rejuvenation of the Centre consisting of an extensive upgrade of the internal malls and the overall masterplanning of the centre involving the introduction of a number of extensions, internal reconfigurations, facade upgrades and the creation of a number of new entrances.

The project is highly complex with 10,000 sq. m. of live mall, multiple active tenancies across the 120,000 sq. m. Centre with at least 4 contractors on site at any given time.

The brief for the development was to create a contemporary, high quality Strategic Housing Development (SHD) suitable for a prime residential site (0.8525 ha) located at Roselawn and Aberdour on the Stillorgan Road.

The proposed development comprises a single phase, two block site arrangement of seven-storey apartment buildings. 142 No. apartments are provided within the scheme, made up of the following:-

73 No. One Bed Apartments;
68 No. Two Bed Apartments;
1 No. Three Bed Apartment.

As part of the developed design response, the project maintains a focus on an active community environment with nearly 4,000sqft of amenity spaces included within the scheme.

These amenity facilities include a social integration zone within a garden pavilion at podium level, a gymnasium, multi-functional space and work lounge. 91 No. car parking spaces are provided across basement and surface levels within the scheme.