Hall McKnight

In 2008 it won the Young Architect of the Year Award[1] sponsored by Building Design magazine and Autodesk.

[4] Rather than aim to create an 'Irish' architecture, Hall McKnight bases its work on what methods and skills the local construction industry can do well.

[1] The six-storey building, located behind St Anne's Cathedral, includes two performance spaces and a tower clad in black basalt.

[4] Expressing the idea of 'architecture as collage', the Belfast MAC was described by Architectural Review as "at once pragmatic and ambitious, perhaps even romantic in its trust in material, light, volume and the resolution of detail".

[8] In January 2014 the company won the bid to design a £3.5 million tower to be built in front of the town hall in the centre of Ipswich, Suffolk.