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Bern’s CV
Bern Balfe studied architecture at University College Dublin. During a year out, she worked in Los Angeles as a toy designer.
After graduating in 1985 with an honours degree, she went to London, where she gained practical experience for her professional practice qualifications, and worked on the restoration of a historic building in Bermondsey.
While working at the in-house architecture department of the BBC, she built up real expertise in the regeneration of buildings which had lost their original function, and began to develop an interest in the dialogue of ideas from different times and cultures which this kind of work can foster.
In 1994 she moved to Edinburgh, and worked for RMJM, for whom she travelled to the Middle East to work on a hotel project; did some proposals for refurbishment of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and designed an office building on the Bush Estate near Penicuik.
In 1997 she became an associate at Benjamin Tindall Architects and was Project Architect for the alteration of a Grade A listed building at the top of the Royal Mile to create the headquarters of the Edinburgh International Festival Society, and for The Queen’s Gallery, at the other end of the Royal Mile, both of which were award-winning projects.
In 2001, Bern set up her own practice.
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