ABOUT US
Arigho Larmour Wheeler is an award winning RIAI and RIBA chartered architectural practice with offices in Dublin and Belfast.
For us, architecture is an opportunity to make things better. We are committed to finding creative yet pragmatic design solutions that add beauty and value to the projects we work on. From our studios in South Dublin and South Belfast we take pride in designing and delivering well-crafted buildings with a strong connection to their context and particular consideration to issues of sustainability, heritage, landscape and material.
Established by Mark Arigho, Jane Larmour and Patrick Wheeler, we have extensive experience working on a diverse range of projects from award-winning public, cultural, educational and commercial buildings to one-off private residences in the UK and Ireland. Recent successes include being awarded second place in the International Design Competition for Ireland House, Tokyo, the RIAI Future Award 2020-21 and Finalists in the World Architecture Festival and Architectural Review Emerging Architects Awards 2020.
MARK ARIGHO BA Arch, BArch, MRIAI, ARB
Director
Mark Arigho is a member of the Royal Institute of Architects Ireland (RIAI) and is also registered in the UK with ARB. He has specialist expertise as an Architect Accredited in Conservation at Grade III (RIAI). He has been an invited guest critic at Queen's University Belfast and has been involved in teaching at UCD and involved in the Architecture at the Edge Summer School, ATU Letterfrack in Connemara.
A graduate of both Canterbury School of Architecture and University College Dublin, Mark featured in Building Design Magazine's Top 100 Architecture Graduates in Britain and won Canterbury School of Architecture's Travel Scholarship. He was a Senior Architect at de Blacam and Meagher Architects where he worked between 2004 and 2015 and has extensive experience of designing one-off private houses, extensions and refurbishments with particular specialist experience in work to protected (listed) structures in sensitive contexts and an Architect Accredited in Conservation at Grade III (RIAI) .
Mark has invaluable experience at detail design stage through to completion on-site, leading design teams on projects ranging from 500k to 16million.
In addition to his experience on domestic work Mark was also Project Architect on a large complex commercial project for the Digicel HQ building in Port au Prince, Haiti.
JANE LARMOUR BSc, BArch, MRIAI, ARB, RIBA, FHEA
Director
Jane Larmour is a member of the RIAI, registered in the UK with ARB, and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Jane was awarded the RIAI Future Award 2020, and selected for the AJ 40 under 40 2020. She has been an invited Judge and Jury member for the the RIAI Awards (2020 and 2024), the AAI Awards (2024), and the Irish Construction Industry Awards (2023), and the RSUA Awards as a RIBA Regional Jury Member (2017). Jane has served on the RSUA Council and as a Regional RIBA Council Member and is currently involved in the RIAI Committee for Public Affairs and Architecture. Jane holds First Class honours degrees in Architecture from Queen’s University Belfast and University College Dublin, and was awarded the two highest student awards in Ireland - the RSUA President’s Medal (undergraduate) and the RIAI President’s Medal (post-graduate) and RIAI Travelling Scholarship.
She was awarded membership of the Higher Education Academy in 2021 and is a Lecturer (Education) in Architecture at QUB where she has been involved in teaching since 2009. Jane has specialist expertise as an Architect Accredited in Conservation at Grade III (RIAI) which complements her teaching at QUB particularly in the Master studio she co-runs called “In Praise of Adaptation” which focuses on heritage and adaptive reuse. Jane has been a Professional Examiner for the QUB Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice in Architecture. Jane contributed to the Royal Irish Academy publication on the Art and Architecture of Ireland.
In previous practice Jane has been involved in a number of award-winning public buildings, including the Stirling Prize nominated Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Photographers' Gallery, London and Gallery of Photography, Dublin for RIBA Gold Medallists O’Donnell + Tuomey, and worked with Hall McKnight, Belfast, on their successful International design competition for Gallaudet University, Washington DC.
PATRICK WHEELER BSc, BArch, MRIAI, ARB
Director
Patrick Wheeler is a member of the RIAI and is also registered in the UK with ARB & RIBA. Following his studies in Scotland, and Denmark, during which he was nominated for the top architectural student prize in Scotland, the RIAS Silver Medal, Patrick returned to Ireland to work. Patrick was invited to be on the jury for the International Concrete Design Competition 2017/18 and is an Expert Advisor to the Ministerial Advisory Group (MAG) for Architecture and the Built Environment championing high quality design.
Patrick has extensive experience ranging from one-off houses and refurbishments while working for de Blacam and Meagher in Dublin, to being the Senior Project Architect on a large office development in Belfast city centre connected to a Grade B listed building, and large-scale urban design projects in the Middle East with Ostick and Williams.
Patrick has taught in the School of Architecture at Queen’s University Belfast since 2012, where he is currently involved in both under-graduate and post-graduate design studios, and has been a Guest Critic at the Schools of Architecture in Umeå, Sweden, Ulster University, Belfast, and University College Dublin.
OUR SERVICES: WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU
We can provide full architectural services (RIAI and RIBA) for both new buildings and works to existing buildings in Ireland and the UK. We have specialist accreditation for working with conservation and heritage projects involving Protected Structures. While every project is unique owing to the precise context of site, aspirations, brief, programme and budget, each design process typically invoices the same sequence of stages from inception to completion including:
Establishing Client needs & priorities & working to develop 'the brief' - Site study & analysis - Feasibility studies - Schematic design - Design development - Planning applications Listed Building Consent and Building Control, Detailed design, Tender bidding & negotiation, Construction & contract documents, On site activities.
If you have a project you would like to talk to us about please get in touch with us.
EXPERTISE: HERITAGE & CONSERVATION, LISTED & PROTECTED STRUCTURES
We are committed to prolonging the useful lives of buildings in a sustainable and sensitive manner while supporting and enhancing modern ways of living and working. Core to our heritage and conservation practice are the various world conservation charters, which advocate respecting original work and documents and striving to make new work distinctive and respectful of that which is historical when appropriate. Recent works include extensions, refurbishments, and alterations to Protected Structures in Blackrock, Donnybrook, and Rathgar in Dublin and works at Kilkenny Black Abbey.
Directors Mark Arigho and JANE LARMOUR are RIAI Architects accredited in Conservation at Grade III and have expertise in working on listed buildings and protected structures in Ireland and the UK.
Jane Larmour co-leads a Masters Studio at Queen’s University Belfast, ‘In Praise of Adaptation’ with Senior Lecturer Keith McAllister focusing on the adaptive re-use of existing buildings.
SUSTAINABILITY
At the core of our work is a desire for each project to achieve a high level of sustainability. Decisions made early in the design stage regarding shelter, window position, siting, form, and mass drive each scheme towards meeting and exceeding current building standards and best practice. By nature, each project calls for a unique solution and so the initial research and appraisal stage of the budget, brief and site is vital to the overall success.
Patrick Wheeler (Director) has particular expertise in NZEB design.
COLLABORATORS & OTHER PROFESSIONALS
We enjoy the opportunities each new project represents to working with both existing and new collaborators and have built excellent working relationships with a range of highly skilled builders, innovative engineers, consultants and crafts people including furniture makers, metalworkers, ceramicists, arborists, landscape specialists, specialist carpenters and other architectural practices.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
We are not currently hiring in either our Belfast or Dublin studios but please check back with us soon.
We are committed to the RSUA Commitments to Fair Pay for Part 1 Graduates.
We are not always able to reply to speculative applications.