Shane O’Toole got trapped between floors in an overloaded cage lift the night Grafton Architects opened their studio in Dublin in 1978. Forty-two years later he nominated them for the Royal Gold Medal – and they won
Author Archives: Shane O’Toole
Identity check: slow architecture grows on the islands of Ireland
The critical culture of Irish architecture, so painstakingly developed over the last half century, is now under threat of starvation
Engagement, education and hope: the Palestinian Museum by Heneghan Peng
The Palestinian Museum aims to tell the story of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian Perspective, while striving to create a new narrative of engagement, education and hope
‘The school reveals the city’: St Angela’s College by O’Donnell + Tuomey
Feeling more like a village than a school, St Angela’s College is liberating and uplifting