Leading light: Boreenmanna Road home joins Loïc Dehaye's growing Cork portfolio

Catherine Shanahan checks out a contemporary modernist house on Cork's Boreenmanna Road by architect Loïc Dehaye

New build home at The Orchards, Boreenmanna Road, Cork. Picture: Larry Cummins

Identifying a “Loïc” house is a game my kids play. The French architect lives close by, and at this stage of the game, with well over 100 house extensions/one-off homes under his belt, including a few in our neighbourhood, his style is fairly recognisable.

When his own home — originally a standard three-bed semi-d — featured in RTÉ’s Home of the Year in 2020, Loïc Dehaye told this newspaper that as an architect, he was “obsessed with light, the use of glass, the garden and also energy efficiency”.