O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   The masterplan, designed with Allies and Morrison, gives UCD a strong physical presence in the city. The Centre for Creative Design consists of a series of volumes with landscaped terraces oriented towards the public promenade that crosses the campus

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   The different floors are visually and spatially connected by a series of large central voids. These spaces not only hierarchize and relate the different programs, but also ensure that light and air reach even the levels below ground...

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   The Matt Talbot, the first of the four buildings included in this municipal commission, is formed by apartments that flow out to private outdoor spaces, and where all the rooms are connected to a shared garden to foster a sense of community...

Níall McLaughlin Architects   Ireland   Located on O'Connell Street, in the heart of the southern Irish city of Limerick, the International Rugby Experience building is respectfully inserted amid historical constructions. Reaching a maximum height close to 34 meters and a total area of 2,1

Grafton Architects   Ireland   From its original location, the University of Limerick has expanded over the years and is now situated on both sides of the River Shannon, the longest and largest in Ireland. The University’s expansion provided the location for the new Medical School

Grafton Architects   Ireland   On the northwestern edge of the Belfield campus of the University College Dublin, the Urban Institute joins an original collection of mainly 19th century Masonic School buildings – now called Richview – which are loosely organized around a lime tree

Grafton Architects   Ireland   This is a part of the Dublin coastal area beloved of James Joyce and immortalized in Ulysses. Located overlooking Dublin Bay, with Booterstown Marsh at its south-eastern boundary, and a frontage onto the main road connecting the sea port of Dun Laogh

Grafton Architects   Ireland   The site for the new house for the President of the Limerick University in the west of Ireland was chosen to be on lands across the river Shannon. Using traditional techniques, the house sits alone in the landscape establishing a relationship with th

Grafton Architects   Ireland   Capital City. Symbolically the most important urban space in Dublin, it was widened in the 18th century and rebuilt after the destruction caused in the uprising of 1916 and the Civil War of 1922. O’Connell Street as a whole has existed in a constant

Grafton Architects   Ireland   The Library is the most democratic institution in our society today, a free space where knowledge and resources are exchanged unconditionally, a space open to all nationalities and social classes. This welcoming and public character marked the starti

Grafton Architects   Ireland   In the 1960s, the construction of the head offices for the National Electricity Supply Board involved demolishing sixteen 18th century houses. This was a controversial act since the continuity of the unique ‘Georgian mile’ of Fitzwilliam Street facad

Grafton Architects   Ireland   The Commissioners of Public Works developed this new building to house the Department of Finance. It is the first new Government Department Building completed in Dublin since 1939. The project incorporated a link into the adjacent Government Building

McCullough Mulvin Architects   Ireland   The project transforms the medieval St Mary’s Church into a museum, recovering its spatial complexity through the reconstruction of the north aisle and the choir, and using wood and lead, a material that connects with the stone of the original walls.

John Tuomey Sheila O’Donnell O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   The project to build a new student hub at the center of the University College Cork campus proposes renewing one of the historic buildings to add 4,000 square meters of alumni facilities. The site incorporates the existing Windle Medical Building whi

John Tuomey Sheila O’Donnell O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   In a prominent setting, the hill that rolls down from Sundays Well Road to River Lee has spectacular views over Fitzgerald Park and the south of Cork. The site, empty today, is surrounded along the east by detached houses and along the west by terrac

John Tuomey Sheila O’Donnell O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   At University College Cork, next to Glucksman Gallery, this pedestrian bridge is part of a global project to blend the riverfront with the pedestrian routes and improve the connections with the city. The area, known as Lower Grounds, belongs to the u

John Tuomey Sheila O’Donnell O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   Located on St. Patrick’s Hill in the North Inner City of Cork, St. Angela’s College takes up a series of separate buildings dating from the 19th century. The existing structures had to be preserved, respecting their heritage values, and reinventing t

John Tuomey Sheila O’Donnell O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   In the historic Liberties area, southwest of the central core of Dublin, the Timberyard project repairs the fracture that the road engineering works for the new Cork Street corridor left on the local landscape. The social housing scheme provides a ne

John Tuomey Sheila O’Donnell O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   The Sean O’Casey Community Centre goes up over the roofs of the East Wall area of Dublin. The main program – including a kindergarten, a daycare center for the elderly, sports halls, and a theater – is organized in four volumes that are hinged by fou

John Tuomey Sheila O’Donnell O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   High on a hill in Killiney, dotted with distinctive outcrops of granite, the house opens up to the views southwards of Dublin Bay and the Sugarloaf in the distance. The organization of the house responds to the topography of the site, configuring a s

John Tuomey Sheila O’Donnell O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   In a conflictive suburb west of Dublin, the Cherry Orchard School is isolated from its surroundings by a brick wall rising more than three meters high. The classrooms are introspectively distributed in four elongated volumes placed following a horn s

John Tuomey Sheila O’Donnell O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   The site is part of a picturesque setting, surrounded by the Neogothic buildings of University College Cork. Lewis Glucksman Gallery addresses the client’s interest in turning the center into a connection between city and campus, so instead of a herm

John Tuomey Sheila O’Donnell O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   Sitting on the slope of a hill on the outskirts of Dublin, Howth House was designed to look out to the sea. Its concrete walls extend like a telescope that frames panoramic views towards the harbor landscape and the island of Ireland’s Eye. Towards t

The social coherence and commitment demonstrated by Grafton Architects, established in 1978, in Dublin, by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, has garnered this year’s Pritzker Prize, the first ever to be conferred on a partnership of women. Arquite

Antonio Lucas   Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara were brainstorming for a name for their studio. It was 1978. They combined their surnames, switched their names around, sometimes drifting toward a more abstract or poetic formulation to go by as an architectural d

In 2020, for the first time in the history of the award, the Hyatt Foundation gave the Pritzker Prize to a tandem of women: the Irish firm Grafton Architects. The work of Yvonne Farrell (1951) and Shelley McNamara (1952) – in joint practice since 197

Según la clasificación oficial de la UEFA hay cuatro categorías de estadios de fútbol: 1, 2, 3 y de élite; sólo en éstos se pueden jugar finales UEFA. Dublín, capital de Irlanda, estrenará uno de ellos en agosto de este año, bautizado Aviva Stadium c

Por encima de los tejados inclinados del barrio de East Wall en Dublín, se alza un hito de chapa ondulada con perforaciones circulares a modo de ventanas. Se trata del Centro Comunitario Sean O’Casey, último edificio de los irlandeses O’Donnell y Tuo

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ireland rides on the back of a tiger. The sleepy dragon of the Emerald Isle has become a feline as ferocious and flexible as its fellow kind from the Pacific, and the fairy-land of Yeats has turned into an Atlantic athlete that displays its financial