We make simple, joyful and efficient
buildings and we deliver them to
the highest standards. We work closely with our clients to make each project the best it can be.
Our Studio
David Williams Architect is based in Dublin, Ireland, with a focus on public buildings, housing, and urban spaces.
In 2024 the practice received the Rising Star in Architecture award at the Building and Architect of The Year Awards. In 2023, David Williams received the RIAI Future Award - Highly Commended from the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland which seeks to recognise emerging talent in Irish Architecture. In 2022, as Wrkshop Architects, we were winners of the RIAI Town Challenge special award and the Workhouse Union Town Ecologies award. Our work has been published in Ireland and internationally. Our work has been recognised and exhibited at the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, and at the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Estonia.
Our Services
Developing design briefs for private and public projects
Initial sketch designs and feasibility studies
Planning design and negotiating the planning process
Technical design and tendering
Contract administration and site inspections
Project Management and Design Team leadership
Project Supervisor for the Design Process (PSDP)
Building Control certification (BCAR)
Building condition reports
Recognition, Publications and Exhibitions
2024: Rising Star in Architecture, The Building and Architect of The Year Awards
2024: Public Building of The Year, The Building and Architect of The Year Awards, Shortlisted
2023: RIAI Future Award - Highly Commended
2023: Architecture Ireland, Castlegregory
2023: Archdaily Building of The Year Nominee
2023: Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Invited Artist, 2310
2022: Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Estonia, Raw Potential
2022: Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Invited Artist, Chess-nut
2022: Wood Works, Solstice Arts Centre, Raw Potential
Our Team
David Williams
Director
MRIAI, B.Arch (hons) SAUL
David works throughout Ireland on new public buildings and urban spaces, focusing on social and environmental sustainability and intelligent building responses. In 2023, David received the RIAI Future Award - Highly Commended, which seeks to recognise emerging talent in Irish architecture. David has over ten years of experience designing significant housing and public buildings. He has previously worked for O’Donnell + Tuomey, Haworth Tompkins, and Reiach and Hall Architects in Dublin, London and Edinburgh. He has previously been a guest architecture critic at Norwich University and The University of East London and has guest lectured in BIM at Birmingham City University. In 2020-2021, David was the programme officer for the Architectural Association of Ireland. Following his interest in housing design and policy, he was a member of the RIAI Housing Committee in 2017-2018 and has contributed to publications including Architecture Ireland.
David studied architecture at Newcastle University and The University of Limerick (SAUL), and completed his Professional Diploma in Architectural Practice at TU Dublin. David is accredited in Health and Safety in Construction.
RIAI Member no. 16128
Tadhg Spain
Architectural Graduate
B. Arch (hons) TU Dublin
Tadhg joined the practice in 2023, and has previously worked at Faulkner Browns Architects, McCullough Mulvin Architects, and FKL Architects in Dublin. Tadhg holds a Bachelors of Architecture (honours) from TU Dublin and curated the end of year exhibition ‘Critical Care: Dublin’s North East Inner City’. His thesis ‘Urban Commons at Irish Life’ focused on larger stakeholders in unloved parts of the North Inner City taking on social responsibilities in unlocking resources and infrastructures to struggling communities through the vehicle of community engagement.
Our Studio Is a Workshop of Ideas
Quality
Our studio policies, systems and processes have been developed with a rigorous attention to detail to guarantee quality in our projects and our company. We take on a limited number of projects and our directors lead every project together.
Our robust in-house Quality Management system is based on principles of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, following the RIAI Good Practice Guide and the RIBA Plan of Work. Every project is developed in BIM in accordance with the ISO 19560 series, with appropriate information exchange protocols in place.
Our IT systems are security certified to ISO 27001. We take a flexible approach with online cloud servers to maintain our workflow from any location, whether working from our studio base or on site.
Registered in Ireland under Company no. 633952
Sustainability
Sustainability underpins our work in the broadest sense. We make long-life, low-energy, environmentally and socially sustainable buildings to stand the test of time and last for generations.
We recognise our responsibility as architects in a climate and biodiversity emergency. We are signatories to Irish Architects Declare: ie.architectsdeclare.com
Innovation
We celebrate new ideas, techniques and technologies with a focus on materials with low embodied carbon, mass timber construction and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). We undertake independent research and development in all of our projects, in a spirit of continuous learning. We promote ongoing research into new techniques to reduce embodied-carbon in the buildings and landscapes we make.
