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Keys and Monaghan

Introduction

This document is designed to tell you a little bit more about us; how we like to work with people to get the most out of projects and to make better places. Our practice always works hard to listen to and work with our clients. Good buildings need clear communication and team work. Together with our clients, we explore the possibilities that lie beyond the brief, and we are subtly pushing expectations and winning awards. We are not about fashion, fads or icons. Our team is all about clear rigorous thinking that delivers the best all round value to our clients and to the environment. Keys & Monaghan Architects Ltd place great emphasis on design, quality and creative thinking to generate unique solutions to Client’s needs.

Team Members

Directors

Alastair Keys
RIBA Dip Proj Man MAPM B.Arch
Alastair graduated from Dundee University in 1989, having worked for Kennedy Fitzgerald Architects in Belfast. With substantial experience working for six years in Scotland, Alastair returned to Irvinestown and founded the award winning Keys Architects in 1995. Alastair also drives the office’s environmental assessment programme, promoting best practice adopted from the Green Register and elsewhere. Alastair is a Member of the Architectural Working Party of the Arts Council for N.I.

Eamonn Monaghan
B.Arch (UCD) MRIAI
Eamonn has worked in London, Dublin and Derry since his graduation in 1989. He has been project architect on several award winning schemes and his work has been published in many architectural journals. Eamonn represents the Northern Region on the council of the RIAI and has sat on Council for RSUA. He has taught in Queens University Belfast, been Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the North West Architecture Association and has acted as RIAI Awards Co-ordinator since 1992.

Residential Experience

Some 50% of Keys and Monaghan’s work is residential. Other projects include schools, urban retail and commercial development work, but all of the architectural team have substantial experience in the sector. Alastair Keys has particular experience with timber framed housing developments, and ecological building techniques. Eamonn Monaghan has skilfully guided a number of large scale housing projects on sensitive sites to completion. His skill and foresight has often enabled development at significantly higher densities than originally anticipated by the developer on suburban sites. John Burke has experience of very large scale brown field development for residential apartments across the UK from his time with Urban Splash, as well as winning awards for his ideas proposals for suburban development at Letchworth Garden City

Residential Developments 2004-05

Year 2006

Hotel and apartments, Killadeas, Enniskillen, GP Williams Ltd Housing – 100 dwellings and 30 apartments, Drumgarrow, Enniskillen, Tracey Bros Mixed-Use Development (12 apartments, 4 houses, 4 commerial units), Lisnarick, Enniskillen, GP Williams Ltd

Year 2005

Housing and apartments- 22 dwellings, Killyhevlin, Enniskillen, GP Williams Ltd Townhouses, Holywood Belfast GP Williams Ltd Housing Development- 30 dwellings, Rossinver – Mayne Development Housing Development- 16 dwellings, Killywillin, Bellanaleck, Co. Fermanagh David McNulty Apartments/Townhouses, Old Henry Street, Enniskillen, Sean Moore Construction Ltd Housing – 12 units, Dunfanaghey, Co. Donegal, Castlekenny Homes Mixed-Use Development – 20 apartments, Clones, Co. Monaghan Housing – 50 dwellings, Doohamlet, Co. Monaghan, Duffy Construction Housing – 40 units, Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, McDaid Bros Housing – Phase 1 35 units, Corlough, Co. Cavan, Cell Construction, Galway Housing – 25 houses, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, McNulty Properties Apartments/Duplex Units – 4 units, Coopers Crescent, Enniskillen, B Fee Housing, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan – Feasibility Study

Year 2004

Housing Development- 20 dwellings, Drumbrughas, Lisnaskea, GP Williams Ltd Housing Development- 41 dwellings, The Commons, Belleek Mayne Development Ltd Proposed Development - 70 dwellings, Garrison, Co. Fermanagh Mayne Developments Ltd Housing Development- 63 dwellings Ederney, Mayne Development Housing Development- 67 dwellings, Derrygonnelly, Co. Fermanagh, Mayne Development Housing Development- 12 dwellings, Ardess, Kesh, Co. Fermanagh, Joe Hendron, Housing Development- 19 dwellings Tempo Road, Enniskillen, Tracey Bros Glendarragh Court Housing- Ederney, Oakleigh Housing Association Houses – 5 houses, Boho, Rural Housing Association Apartments – 24 units, Ramelton, Co. Donegal, Castlekenny Homes Housing Development – 75 houses, Tempo Road, Enniskillen, UFM Townhouse, Bridge Street, Ramelton, Co. Donegal, Castlekenny Homes Housing Development – 56 units, Featherbed Glade, Enniskillen, Tracey Bros

2004: Civic Trust Award - Box Works Manchester2
2003: RIAI Regional Award- Child Care Centre, Irvinestown Selected for Exhibition RIAI Housing in Rural Towns Exhibition RIBA Design Award- Box Works2 National Homebuilder Design Awards - Mail on Sunday Award Winner for Best Restoration and Conversion, Box Works Manchester2
2002: The Roses Design Awards 2002 -- Best Regeneration Scheme, Commendation2 Built in Quality Awards, Manchester City Council, Box Works2
2001: RIAI Regional Award- Field Studies Centre Derrygonnelly, Fermanagh.2000: RSUA Award 2000- Burnavon Theatre and Arts Complex, Cookstown1 Westport Civic Offices RIAI Competition, Highly Commended (John Burke with McCormick Tracey Mullarkey)
1999: Civic Trust Commendation 1999- Necarne1 World Renewable Energy Network-UNESCO Finalist John Burke
1998: Velux / Architect’s Journal Lifetime Housing Design Award- 1st Place John Burke £6000
1997: Cookstown Theatre Competition- 1st Prize1 Scottish Ecological Design Association, Student Design Award- 1st John Burke £500
1996: RSUA Award – Necarne1 NITB/ British Airways- Best Project1
1995: RIAI Regional Award- Necarne1

This building*… demonstrates Keys & Monaghan’s work to date as a very worthy and wholesome kind of architecture born out of a practice which clearly communicates with clients and their community.” Alastair Hall. RIBA. Perspective Jan 2003 *Nursery School Irvinestown