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

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   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   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   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   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   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   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   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   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   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