MOLA Architecture creates exceptional, human-focused spaces by combining design integrity and expertise with collaborative client engagement. Our value lies not just in what we design, but how we deliver – with agility, warmth and precision.
Architecture & Design.
We design high-quality, forward-thinking architecture for our clients worldwide that adds lasting value. From feasibility to completion, our approach integrates creativity, technical precision, and sustainability. Every project is a bespoke response, whether a university building, office development, school, housing scheme or cultural facility. We design spaces that are functional, beautiful, and resilient, always led by innovation in architecture and interiors. Services Include:
Interiors & Workplace Strategy.
MOLA creates award-winning interior environments and workplace strategies that are visually compelling, human-centred, and informed by evolving workplace trends. Each project is carefully crafted to support performance, wellbeing, and organisational culture, while responding precisely to user and operational needs and consistently surpassing industry standards.
This commitment to excellence has been recognised repeatedly, with MOLA named Design Practice of the Year at the Irish Fit-Out Awards in 2025, 2024, 2018, 2016, and 2015.
What We Do
We provide an integrated range of interior and workplace services, combining strategic insight with design excellence and technical expertise.
Our services include:
Urbanism & Placemaking.
We work at the scale where policy, place and people intersect. We support public and private clients through rezoning, statutory planning and long-range spatial frameworks, ensuring that vision, policy and delivery are closely aligned. Our urbanism practice translates strategic planning objectives into coherent, sustainable and deliverable environments, shaping cities, campuses and neighbourhoods that are resilient, legible and rooted in context.
Our expertise includes:
Heritage & Reuse
Sensitive engagement with historic buildings and places unlocks their potential through careful analysis, creative adaptation and a deep respect for cultural significance. This approach balances conservation with contemporary use, ensuring heritage assets remain relevant, sustainable and valued into the future.
Strategic Advisory & Consultation
We provide clear and informed advice at critical stages of projects, helping clients navigate complexity and make confident decisions. Our strategic input aligns vision, policy, design and delivery to add value across feasibility, planning and long-term development strategies.
Sustainability & Performance
Sustainability is embedded in our design thinking and is a fundamental principle of our practice. We recognise the role the construction industry, and the architectural profession in particular, plays in reducing global CO₂ emissions and addressing environmental, social, economic and ecological challenges. Our aim is to create architecture and urbanism that has a positive effect on the environment, enhancing long-term performance and occupant wellbeing. Working closely with clients and design teams, we integrate passive design principles, material efficiency and evidence-led analysis to deliver resilient, low-carbon projects with reduced embodied carbon and improved operational performance.
MOLA Architecture is an active member of the Irish Green Building Council and a signatory to Irish Architects Declare, a network of RIAI registered architects & architectural practices committed to addressing the climate and biodiversity emergency.
Technical Design & Delivery
We combine technical rigour with design excellence to deliver projects that are robust, compliant, and deliverable to the highest industry standards. Our approach is grounded in proven construction principles, while consistently embracing innovation, ensuring solutions that are both reliable, more sustainable and future ready.
Our core services include Assigned Certifier and Design Certifier roles, technical due diligence assessments for acquisition, building monitoring, feasibility, and suitability for use, as well as condition reporting, post occupancy evaluation, and life cycle assessment. This integrated offering supports informed decision making from early design stages through construction, occupation, and long-term asset management.
Our Services Include
Design Research
Our design process is informed by rigorous research and real-world data to inform design and enable us to anticipate and respond to contemporary social, environmental and technological challenges.
MOLA Lecture Series
Our internal and public lecture programme invites leading voices from across the built environment to share ideas, challenge thinking, and foster dialogue.
Working Groups
Practice-wide working groups bring focused expertise together to develop knowledge, test ideas, and drive innovation across projects.
Publications
We share research through publications, white papers, and conference presentations, contributing to wider discourse on the built environment.
Education & Training Pathways
We support the next generation of designers through student placements, internships, and mentorship programmes, providing structured training within live project environments.
Continuing Professional Development
We support ongoing learning through accredited CPD programmes, research-led initiatives, and practice-wide knowledge sharing.