O'Donnell + Tuomey

O’Donnell + Tuomey, established by Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey in 1988, has been involved with urban design, cultural and educational buildings, houses and housing projects in Ireland, the Netherlands, the UK and Hungary. They were members of Group 91, framework planners for the regeneration of Temple Bar, Dublin’s cultural quarter, where they were architects for three buildings: Irish Film Institute, National Photography Archive and Gallery of Photography. Recent cultural projects include the Glucksman Gallery University College Cork, completed in 2004; An Gaeláras Irish Language and Cultural Centre in Derry, completed in 2009; the Lyric Theatre Belfast, opened in 2011; the extension to Photographers’ Gallery, Soho, London, completed in 2012; London School of Economics Students’ Union Centre, due for completion in 2013; and Central European University, Budapest, due for completion in 2018. Winners of more than 70 national and international awards for their work across the past twenty-five years; they have been seven times winners of the AAI Downes Medal; three times finalists for the Mies Van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 1997, 1999, and 2003; four times shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2012; and won the RIAI Gold Medal in 2005. They were selected to represent Ireland in a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2004 and a group show “The Lives of Spaces” in 2008. In 2012 their installation ‘Vessel’ was part of the International show in the Arsenale. Princeton Architectural Press published a monograph O’Donnell +Tuomey Selected Works in 2007.