Yesterday, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara were named the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureates, an honor that comes on the heels of the 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal they received last month. The Pritzker Architecture Prize honored McNamara and Farrell as individuals instead of as their Dublin-based firm, Grafton Architects, making them the second and third Irish natives honored in the award’s history.
Since founding Grafton Architects in 1978, the duo has designed structures around the world, including numerous projects that focus on, and encourage a sense of, community. Here are nine standout examples of their work.
Ros Kavanagh
Loreto Community School – Milford (2006)
Milford, Ireland
Ros Kavanagh
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan (2007)
Navan, Ireland
Paolo Tonato
Università Luigi Bocconi School of Economics (2008)
Milan
Courtesy Grafton Architects
University of Limerick,Medical School, Residences, Piazza, and Pergola (2013)
Limerick, Ireland
Iwan Baan
Universidad de Ingeniería & Tecnología (UTEC), Lima, Peru, by Grafton Architects
Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) (2015)
Lima, Peru
Courtesy Grafton Architects
Parnell Square Cultural Quarter (Ongoing, planned 2019)
Dublin
Courtesy Grafton Architects
Town House, Kingston University London (2019)
London
Courtesy Grafton Architects
Institut Mines-Télécom, Paris-Saclay (2019)
Paris
Courtesy Grafton Architects
Toulouse School of Economics (2019)
Toulouse, France