We’re pleased to have gained planning approval for our client’s project in Ballina, County Mayo
A Modern single-storey stepped home, working with the levels on site, with views from many of the rooms towards Lough Conn & Nephin Mountain.
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Michelin Development helps Slemish Design Studio Architects
Michelin Development helps Slemish Design Studio Architects build on 10 years of success.
A County Antrim architectural and planning consultancy is building for future growth as it approaches its tenth anniversary, with support from Michelin Development.
Since its launch in 2012, Slemish Design Studio Architects has built up a following across a national and international client base with its stunning properties, built in harmony with their surroundings across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
A number of the projects are being specified by clients returning home after years working in locations including Dubai, the Bahamas, Australia and the US.
Spurred on by the lockdown, they have wanted to move back home and bring a blend of luxury inspired by their overseas lifestyles, featuring the natural materials, environment and landscape of the island – and the latest renewable energy techniques.
Founded by Steven Bell and Joe Magill, Slemish Design Studio Architects is located in Raceview Mill, midway between Ballymena and Broughshane.
From there a team of six – including RIBA, RIAI, ARB and RSUA architects and several CIAT members – work in a light and airy studio, featuring a contemporary design that still retains the natural features of the old mill building.
Their passion for innovative, quality design, coupled with personal and attentive customer service, has seen the business plot a strong growth curve.
Joe Magill, who studied architecture at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Nottingham, said: “We are seeing a trend with people from the length and breadth of Ireland returning back home after living around the world.
“They want homes built in a traditional style, with a contemporary twist.
“We have now worked in 26 of the 32 counties across Ireland to create dream properties of style, substance and sustainability.
“There’s a value in what can be achieved in Ireland, and people are also looking to be closer to their families due to Covid.”
To support its growth ambitions, Michelin Development has provided two low-interest loans to Slemish Design Studio Architects, which have been used to support marketing activities and also the purchase of 3D visualisation technology, to bring their ideas to life for clients in a highly engaging and informative way.
Fellow director Steven Bell, said “Michelin Development has really listened to what we need, offered us advice and helped us to grow and thrive.
“The first loan offered a critical boost for the business in terms of our marketing and brand recognition.
“The second has helped us to forge ahead with the 3D technology, which has taken us to the next level in terms of interaction with our clients and suppliers.
“The support has brought surety, and comfort and provided a safety net for us to grow.”
Targeted at manufacturing, engineering or service sector (B2B) businesses with fewer than 250 employees, Michelin Development provides funding and advice to local firms to drive economic growth in areas around where it has or had manufacturing facilities.
The programme supports high-potential, small and medium-sized enterprises in and around County Antrim, excluding Belfast, through services including unsecured, heavily subsidised loans, as well as free, independent and expert advice to pave the way for growth.
Loans of up to £50,000 are available, and they can be used to lever additional funding from other sources.
Noel Mulholland, of Michelin Development in County Antrim, said:
“Slemish Design Studio Architects have achieved great things in the last 10 years.
“We are very pleased to have supported them on their growth journey.”
“Michelin Development works closely with other stakeholders, including Mid and East Antrim Council, to ensure a complete package of support is available to help businesses start up and grow in the area.”
To find out more visit www.michelindevelopment.co.uk
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About Michelin Development
Michelin Development aims to contribute to the economic regeneration and long-term prosperity of the regions in which its sites are, or were, located. The programme provides an opportunity for Michelin to support the regeneration of the local business community and in particular the creation of quality sustainable jobs.
Interested businesses can apply at www.michelindevelopment.co.uk
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We’re Featured – Northern Irelands Leading Architect Guide
We are pleased to be listed among some of Northern Ireland’s leading residential architects in Ulster Tatler Interiors magazine.
They have featured us in the Architects Guide 2022.
With projects, such as our Sixmile House, Aeroplane House & Clougwater House being featured.
This year Slemish Design Studio Architects celebrates a decade of success.
Established in 2012 by practice partners Magill and Steven Bell, the practice welcomed a steady period of growth, curing an array of commissions right ross the UK and Ireland and is positioned as one of Ireland’s top residential architectural practices. With a total of six members of staff, the office offers a broad range of services to both individual and commercial clients.
We provide passion for innovative and Reality design, coupled with personal and tentative customer service. We engage both contemporary and traditional architecture, using local traditions and materials appropriate for each individual ourselves in our professional approach site, while always ensuring that design with each client.
With experience spanning across most architectural sectors and influence drawn from working across the globe, we pride a kind ourselves on being the architects to help you design, develop, and construct the most appropriate, personal, and inspiring project for your needs.
We were delighted to be recognised at the Belfast Telegraph Property Awards for Best Architectural Practice (Residential) and Innovative Use of Smart Home Technology. Slemish Design Studio Architects are right at the forefront of quality, evolutionary and sustainable residential Architecture in Northern Ireland.
Selfbuild live 2022
We’re pleased to say that Slemish Design Studio Architects will be exhibiting at this year’s Selfbuild Live, in the Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast.
Setting out our new stand in Hall 2, Stand K2.
Should you wish to come along to discuss your future projects, or indeed your current one, we’ll be about all weekend from Friday 7th October – Sunday 9th October.
The good news for all you Ballymena folk attending is that there are free tickets available… yes you heard that right, free tickets.
click on the link & fill out the information – shorturl.at/CHOS5
See you all there for a packed weekend & if you are feeling generous after getting free tickets, you can buy us a coffee for standing there all weekend 🙂
Slemish Design Studio sponsor Ballymena Golf Clubs Captains charity day
Slemish Design Studio was pleased to be involved in Ballymena Golf clubs Captains Charity Day.
Captain Ciaran Corbitt (and SDS client) chose Friends of the Cancer Centre for his charity day.
With over 100 members & more players from other clubs involved, it was a super day all around.
Ballymena Golf Club members ready to Tee Off – Gareth McCullough, Steven Bell, Rab Graham, Nigel Douglas
There are lots of ways you can donate to Friends of the Cancer Centre. Below are a few ideas on how you can make a donation, including becoming a regular donor.
If you would like to make a one-off donation, just click this link Donate Now button and you can donate quickly and securely.
Carnlough Project progression
Our Carnlough Project has started on site & is progressing well
Conversion from first floor flat & ground floor retail space to a new home for our client.
Carnlough Project – This is a redesign of the front with the shop front removed and replaced with two windows and two windows added upstairs.
Upstairs being converted from a 2 bedroom apartment to a living room and kitchen/larder/dining room with a new bathroom and a snug/5th bedroom
Carnlough has a long history dating back almost 400 years when it had its first harbour, most of it was owned by the Marchioness of Londonderry, Winston Churchill’s Great Grandmother, who built the current harbour and also built Garron Tower in the mid-1800s and early 1900s.
Ownership of the area over the centuries has passed through many hands from Sorley Boy MacDonnell (1500s).
Much to the surprise of our client, when his solicitor sent a copy of the deeds he found the house had previously been owned by Sir Winston Churchill from 1921-47.
It had been left to him along with most of Carnlough by his second cousin who died in an accident.
Churchill then transferred most of the houses to a company owned by the Earl of Antrim in 1947, it is thought he may have visited the village during his ownership on a visit to Northern Ireland.
The Londonderry Arms Hotel has a painting of Churchill and a room named after him.
Sixmile House into planning NI
The planning application for our luxury house set outside Duandry, County Antrim, has been made to Planning NI
Using a mix of modern facades, such as standing seam Cor-Ten Steel, dark render & charred timber cladding, along with the large expanse or glazing for solar gain & river views.
The Shedding’s House progressing on site
One of our projects – The Shedding’s House, is progressing well onsite.
A modern 2-storey dwelling & garage just outside the village of Broughshane, Ballymena, with 180degree views towards Slemish Mountain
Exciting expansion plans announced at Iron’s Home Bakery
We are pleased to have gotten planning approval for Iron’s Home Bakery Extension in Harryville, Ballymena
Irons Home Bakery was established almost 50 years ago by Mr W. J. Irons. After serving his time as a baker in Belfast and then in Morton and Simpson’s in Ballymena, Mr Irons started the bakery not far from where he lived, along with his wife Anna.
The bakery always had a strong family focus and today the business is run by his daughter, Peggy Eaton and his granddaughter Rachel. Mr Irons’s other granddaughter Rebecca also helps out on a Saturday and Mr Irons can still be spotted coming in to check all produce is up to his standards.
On a Facebook post from Iron’s they said
We have been granted planning approval to move our existing shop into what was Hillis’s newsagents – just next door to us!
We are so grateful for your patience as you stand outside queuing in all weathers.
The new shop will be bigger so less time standing out in the rain & this larger shop will also allow us to provide you with an even better selection of goodies!
Thanks for your support which has kept us going for over 50 years now! Here’s to the next 50!
And thanks to Slemish Design Studio Architects for getting us here!
New restaurant for Kells, Ballymena
Great to see another of our commercial projects submitted to planning to revitalise this former bar in Kells into a restaurant.
We wish our clients Wellington Bistro NI Ltd. all the very best moving forward and look forward to working with them on this project.
A proposal has been lodged to turn a historic vacant public bar in Kells, Ballymena into a licensed restaurant.
Daryl & Jackie Adams who’s family also owns Rococo, Gatto’s Ristorante, and the Barber Shop in Ballymena as well as Rococo in Antrim.
Speaking to Geoffrey Moffett at CausewayCoast Coast Community this morning Dr. Daryl Adams said:
“We are extremely excited to be taking on the project in Kells.
“The historic public house has remained derelict for a number of years and it would be fantastic to see it open and trading as a licensed restaurant in the heart of the village.
He went on to say: “These are difficult times for hospitality with a number of closures in recent weeks but we are optimistic that Kells will be a great success. We hope to employ 4 full-time & 2 part-time staff to begin with.”
Bigger and better – The Corner Bakery at the heart of town and the community
We are pleased to have made the planning application for The Corner Bakery in Ballymena.
Established 8 years ago on Ballymoney Street, owner Peter Nixon is looking to extend into Greenvale Street.
For almost eight years, The Corner Bakery has enjoyed developing his business, watching it grow from strength to strength, while building relationships with the many customers he sees as friends. Never content to settle for average, owner Peter loves to use his creativity to bring better to the people of Ballymena.
This will add additional seating inside as well as the option for more outside seating when the weather permits.
Owner Peter Nixon added:
“This is something I have planned and thought about for quite a while, and now feels like the perfect time to put everything into practice!
“The staff and I love what we do – we love all of our regulars, and this will enable us to welcome more people through our doors.”
As featured in – Living Design Magazine
We’re pleased to have been featured in Northern Irelands leading architectural magazine, Living Design.
Our Gorconny Cottage extension and renovation in Ballycastle, County Antrim.
This project was picked by the RSUA Living Design panel for its unique modern design with the traditional Irish cottage.
The proposed extension to the rear creates a larger and more modern open plan space for relaxing, cooking, and entertaining with friends and family.
Merging both traditional and modern styles with locally sourced timber classing, crisp white render, and zinc cladding bring both warmth and contact to the front and rear elevation, which invokes a sympathetic nod to the rural context.
The proposed extension to the rear creates a larger and modern open plan space for relaxing, cooking, a
House & Home magazine top Irish architects
We’re pleased to have been featured in Irelands leading magazine, House & Home as one of their picks for Irelands top Irish Architects
Most of us have ideas or dreams for our homes. They might be as simple as a kitchen extension, or a bit extra space for the kids to go into like a playroom. Others might be to renovate an old property or add more rooms to make the house more useable from sunrooms to granny annexe.
Mostly though everyone dreams about building their own home, a one-off, architecturally designed house.
Whatever it is, we at Slemish Design Studio will be able to help you out through the process.
Should you be interested in extending or renovating, feel free to get in touch
Treadstown House Kildare
We are pleased to have made the application for a new house in Treadstown County Kildare.
A modern farmhouse designed dwelling for a local couple where they can live & entertain friends, along with space to work.
Keeping the frontage to the house a more traditional layout where using modern materials such as standing seam metal roof, along with local Kildare stone & smooth off white render.
At the rear of the house it starts to get interesting, with large open glazing letting south west evening light into the house, this along with an open plan living, kitchen & dining room leading to an outdoor living/kitchen/entertainment area, which can be enjoyed even in the worst of our Irish summers.
New project | Doctors house Ballymena
We’re pleased to have been appointed as architects for a Replacement Dwelling project on the outskirts of Ballymena, County Antrim.
We’ll be involved from the beginning through to onsite for contract administration.
