Practice Profile

Accreditation from the RIAI as Grade One Conservation Architects

"Quality is a necessary constituent of good architecture. It has to do with the choice of materials, techniques and, through the manner in which things are juxtaposed and put together, the expression of the spirit of a work. Richness is not a factor; it is as possible, as easy, to achieve good quality with inexpensive means as to achieve it with an overabundance of riches. There is appropriate quality which is perhaps the same as a sense of propriety. To have this sense and the ability to practice it, with clarity, is the factor that particularly distinguishes the work."

Robin Walker FRIAI, 26th June 1983, introduction to catalogue on work of deBlacam and Meagher.

deBlacam and Meagher have established a pre-eminent position in Architecture in Europe, and are enthusiastically dedicated to service of clients and to completion of buildings of major significance.

The practice is primarily concerned with the making of simple buildings and with the employment of beautiful materials: oak, white limestone, black fossil limestone, granite, slate, stainless steel, glass, naturally pigmented paints, gold leaf, wool, linen and silk to give quality, permanence and significance to the work; it possesses particular other expertise in restoration and conservation work, interior, furniture design, exhibition design, the design of excellent new buildings.

The quality of the work has been recognised both in Ireland and Internationally as indicated in the list of publications, exhibitions and awards received.