O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   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

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   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

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   Hungary   The Central European University (CEU)occupies four adjoining buildings within a compact urban block on a World Heritage Site in central Budapest. Planned to be carried out in a series of phases, the scheme involves the radical transformation of four

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   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

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   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

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   United Kingdom   The London School of Economics takes up several buildings in a central area of the British capital. Aiming to gather all the services for students under one same roof, the school called a competition in 2009 to build a student hub with an auditorium,

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   United Kingdom   The Photographers’ Gallery is a non-profit publicly funded organization devoted to disseminating and exhibiting photography. Founded in 1971, the organization decided in 2006 to move its home to an old red-brick Victorian warehouse, of 10.5 meters x

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   United Kingdom   Situated on the boundary between the residential urban fabric and the parkland setting of River Lagan upon entering Belfast, the Lyric is the home of the theater company of the same name. Both the site, a small triangular sloping plot, and the budget

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   United Kingdom   Aiming to preserve and promote Irish language, the center built by the organization An Gaeláras invites citizens to join the community cultural center by channelling pedestrian flow from the city to a large interior atrium. The site, in the historic

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   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

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   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

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   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

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   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

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   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

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   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

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   Ireland   Through the use of materials that mimic the colors in the landscape and track the passage of time, the GMIT College blends with the rural context of Letterfrack, in Western Ireland.The scheme includes buildings that belonged to an old reformatory and

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   Ireland   A school building can be understood as both a large house or a small town, because it addresses domestic and civic needs in equal measure. In this sense, Ranelagh School consists of interior and exterior spaces with different degrees of privacy that

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   Ireland   Shortly after the Irish Film Institute was completed, a new public space, bound by two buildings across from one another, was raised in the same block: a brick volume for the National Photographic Archive and Gallery and the School of Photography. Th

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   Ireland   The Irish Film Institute was the first of the three buildings O’Donnell and Tuomey completed in the Temple Bar area, in the center of Dublin. Inside a compact urban block, the project had to transform a motley ensemble of properties – that the Quaker

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects Sheila O’Donnell John Tuomey   Ireland   Designed in collaboration with the Irish artist Brian Maguire, this pavilion – the studio’s first public building – was originally designed to represent Ireland at the ‘11 Cities/11 Nations’ exhibition in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden in 1989, and two

Fernando Rodríguez   La obra de Sheila O’Donnell y John Tuomey puede ser entendida como el relato de la aplaudida reinvención de Irlanda. En su camino de ida y vuelta entre Dublín y Londres, han sentado las bases de una particular manera de enfrentarse a la actualización