For many people, building a house is the largest investment they'll ever make, the place where their life unfolds, and it matters profoundly. I founded this practice on a simple idea: that a project this important deserves an architect who's genuinely invested in getting it right - someone who knows your site and your life, and who stays with you from first sketch through to completion. I spent years at practices designing larger projects and high-end residential, institutional work that was genuinely impressive.

But I kept running into the same problem - the work that mattered most to people living with it had nothing to do with budget or accolades. It was about a place shaped around how you actually live. So I started tóg around that idea.

Residential work done with the seriousness and craft it deserves - reading your site properly, designing for how you actually live, building things that last. I'm an RIBA and RIAI registered architect, a certified Passive House Designer, and have lectured and been a guest speaker at the Belfast School of Architecture at Ulster University. Before founding tóg, I worked at McGonigle McGrath, MMAS, and ArdMackel Architects — three of Ireland's most awarded practices, contributing to projects including Lessans House and the Sportlann at Coláiste Feirste.

That time shaped how I think about buildings: grounded in material and tectonic understanding, designed for the specific conditions of a site rather than imported from a template. My undergraduate thesis was awarded the RSUA Bronze Medal, and my Masters dissertation — Context [is everything] — was nominated for the RIBA Silver Medal. tóg exists because residential work deserves that same rigour.