Donal Blake

Donal is a Director of STW. He studied Architecture at The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and has 28 years’ experience mostly working on large and complex projects in healthcare.
Donal spent the first year of his BArch studies at the National University of Singapore before returning to Newcastle and after graduating with 1st Class Honours in 1992, he returned to Singapore for five years working on various major developments in urban settings. In 1997, he moved to Dublin to join STW, becoming a Director in 2007.
As the dynamic and energetic leader STW’s Healthcare Division, He has been a leading advocate of Evidence Based Design in our work and is especially interested in developing the patient environment to improve the therapeutic value. His recent work on Marymount Hospice, the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and particularly Ireland’s National Forensic Hospital captures this passion.
Donal has lectured at ‘DiMH’ and IHEEM.