Marc O Riain is currently a Lecturer with the Department of Architecture CIT and has been recently appointed as a Regional Co-ordinator for Irish Design 2015.

One of Ireland’s most senior Commercial Interior Architects

with over €167m of completed projects to date. He has won over 20 industry awards nationally and multiple international awards as well as running a successful teams at O’Riordan Staehli Architects, Henry J Lyons Architects and RUA Architects in Cork.



He has been involved in PhD research with the Cork Centre of Architectural Education in the topic of low energy retrofit. As part of the research he was the architectural lead researcher in Zero2020, the first measured Net Zero Energy retrofit in Ireland and a prototype based on a section of the 1967 RTC typology based in Cork. The prototype has achieved a performance in line with nZEB expected energy consumption (EPBD). The project won the IDI Design Sustainability Award in 2012.

His most recent work on the Architecture Factory has won:
Institute of Designers in Ireland Grand Prix
International A'Design Award Platinum Winner Commercial Interiors (Italy)
World Festival of Interiors Finalist. (Singapore)
World Architecture Architizer A+ Finalist. (New York)
International Core 77 Design Awards Commercial Interior 2nd place (New York)

Graduating from NCAD & UL in 1995 he has learned his trade in Galway, Dublin and Cork.

His work spans the national and international Blue Chip companies, such as Amazon, Ernst & Young, Deloittes, Nortel Networks, Microsoft, TYCO, balanced with his public work on many hospitals, colleges and exhibition buildings. These have included the award winning Architecture Factory, Cork Maternity Hospital, St Johns Central College, Mansion House Cork, Cliffs of Moher Interpretive Centre, and Zero2020 to name a few.

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Marc Ó Riain

Abbey House, Abbey Lane, Kinsale, Co Cork

Munster

P: +353876104990

Marc Ó Riain is IAD member since 2014, with 2049 IAD rating.